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High-Throughput-Methyl-Reading (HTMR) assay: a solution based on nucleotide methyl-binding proteins enables large-scale screening for DNA/RNA methyltransferases and demethylases

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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 50, 期 2, 页码 -

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab989

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81703415, 91853205, 81625022, 81821005, 21820102008, 81728020]
  2. K.C. Wong Education
  3. Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [21ZR1474700, 19XD1404700, 18431907100]
  4. Taishan Scholar

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This study developed a fluorescence polarization-based assay for high-throughput screening and evaluation of enzymatic activity of DNA/RNA methyltransferases and demethylases. The assay is simple, sensitive, and quick.
Epigenetic therapy has significant potential for cancer treatment. However, few small potent molecules have been identified against DNA or RNA modification regulatory proteins. Current approaches for activity detection of DNA/RNA methyltransferases and demethylases are time-consuming and labor-intensive, making it difficult to subject them to high-throughput screening. Here, we developed a fluorescence polarization-based 'High-Throughput Methyl Reading' (HTMR) assay to implement large-scale compound screening for DNA/RNA methyltransferases and demethylases-DNMTs, TETs, ALKBH5 and METTL3/METTL14. This assay is simple to perform in a mix-and-read manner by adding the methyl-binding proteins MBD1 or YTHDF1. The proteins can be used to distinguish FAM-labelled substrates or product oligonucleotides with different methylation statuses catalyzed by enzymes. Therefore, the extent of the enzymatic reactions can be coupled with the variation of FP binding signals. Furthermore, this assay can be effectively used to conduct a cofactor competition study. Based on the assay, we identified two natural products as candidate compounds for DNMT1 and ALKBH5. In summary, this study outlines a powerful homogeneous approach for high-throughput screening and evaluating enzymatic activity for DNA/RNA methyltransferases and demethylases that is cheap, easy, quick, and highly sensitive.

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