Name: 作者聚焦：开发用于 HAT1 抑制剂筛选的乙酰点击检测
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我们感谢 George Zheng 提供 H4K12CoA。我们感谢格鲁伯实验室的成员进行有益的讨论和反馈。我们感谢 NIH/NCI （1K08CA245024）、CPRIT （RR200090） 和 V 基金会 （V2022-022） 的支持。

1. 方法一：生产纯化重组HAT1/Rbap46复合物
<ol><li>解冻、回收和扩增 HEK293f 细胞<ol><li>在 100 mL 烧瓶中将 1-1000 万个 HEK293f 哺乳动物细胞 26 解冻到 30 mL freestyle 293 表达培养基中。在37°C下在8%CO2 中孵育，同时以60rpm旋转。</li>
		<li>第二天，计数并检查细胞活力，然后将转速调整为 120 rpm。在 1 L 烧瓶中扩增至 300 mL 培养物，将接种密度保持在 500,000 个细胞/mL，并在...

开发基于点击的检测方法，用于筛选 HAT1 酶活性

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在过去的十年中，点击化学变得突出20，使相互作用的化学结构的精确设计成为可能。在此背景下，各种生物正交共价连接21 已成为在其自然环境中形成复合物的有希望的选择。点击化学采用表现出快速和选择性反应的官能团对，通常称为“点击反应”。这些反应在环保、温和的水性条件下有效发生。在这里，我们介绍了一种旨在鉴定和表征 HAT1 乙酰转移酶活?...

在众多真核乙酰转移酶中，HAT1 是最初分离的组蛋白乙酰转移酶 1,2,3。随后的研究已经牢固地确立了它在染色质复制中的关键作用，特别是在 S 期4 期间合成新核小体中。我们的研究努力使人们认识到 HAT1 在乳腺细胞中受到表皮生长因子 （EGF） 处理的高度刺激5。此外，已经发现 HAT1 是体内快速细胞增殖和肿瘤形成所必需的 6,7,8,9。数据表明，HAT1在协调细胞分裂的合成代谢和表观遗传过程，推动肿瘤生长方面至关重要。
HAT1 与伴侣蛋白 Rbap46 复合物将赖氨酸 5 和 12 上组蛋白 H4 的氨基末端尾部二乙酰化，后者结合组蛋白并将氨基末端呈递给 HAT1。然后将组蛋白四聚体或二聚体10与HAT1 / Rbap46和其他组蛋白伴侣11一起导入细胞核。然后组蛋白被释放以沉积在复制叉或其他位点以支持基因激活或抑制。HAT1 二乙酰化标记对组蛋白 H4 的功能尚不完全清楚。在将H4插入染色质后，它可能在15-30分钟内通过组蛋白脱乙酰酶12,13,14,15的作用迅速去除。因此，HAT1 二乙酰化标记不会在染色质中传播，并且可能不具有真正的表观遗传作用，尽管已经假设在染色质修饰酶向新生染色质募集中发挥作用12。此外，HAT1 不直接乙酰化染色质;其活性仅限于可溶性组蛋白。
小分子组蛋白乙酰转移酶抑制剂的开发受到非特异性和低通量测定的阻碍，通常会导致生物反应性化合物的产生16,17。测量乙酰转移酶活性的金标准测定需要使用 3H-乙酰辅酶 A，这限制了通量并需要辐射。尽管如此，最近，通过使用 3H-乙酰辅酶 A 描述并证实了靶向 CBP/p30018 和 KAT6A/B 19,20 的特异性和高效小分子乙酰转移酶抑制剂。展望未来，正在设计改进的检测方法，以实现更好的通量并避免实验室危害。
乙酰化监测21 的最新进展已使用点击化学来实现酶促反应监测。有多种支持点击的前体，可以通过简单的合成途径获得，也可以购买可以掺入酶反应中。这些反应通常在重组系统中进行，尽管基于细胞的测定也是可行的22。支持点击的辅助因子和底物的优点是，筛选可以直接测量酶活性，而无需偶联读出系统，而耦合读出系统通常会受到筛选化合物的干扰，并且需要额外的处理步骤。这允许仅在酶促步骤中进行抑制剂处理，而所有下游功能化和检测步骤均在大量洗涤后进行，以去除化合物，从而限制了发生检测干扰的可能性。这些优点使得支持点击的检测设计比通常依赖于游离辅酶 A 检测的偶联检测更可取。
一个重要的考虑因素是接受启用点击的辅助因子进入酶活性位点。现有的启用点击的辅助因子可能与针对原生辅因子优化的活动站点不完全兼容。结构信息和建模可用于设计氨基酸取代，以扩大活性位点以掺入改变的底物23。这可以通过改进的酶动力学和更低的底物和酶水平进行筛选。这种方法的缺点是改变的催化口袋可能无法识别与天然酶强烈相互作用的抑制剂。最终，需要结合多种方法来识别和验证潜在的酶抑制剂。
在这里，我们描述了一种使用点击辅因子 4-戊酰辅酶A 24 纯化和测定 HAT1 酶活性的方法。该测定（图1）使用天然酶序列与其所需的伴侣蛋白Rbap46复合物，Rbap46已被证明可以提高酶活性。从人体细胞中纯化酶允许 纤维素中的酶活化，这可以保留对完全酶活性很重要的刺激性翻译后修饰。用于高通量化学筛选的重组酶检测的设计和优化已成功用于鉴定和表征 HAT1 小分子抑制剂。

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			<td>Copper Sulfate</td>
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			<td>Forskolin</td>
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			<td>NP40 (IGEPAL)</td>
			<td>MP Biomedical</td>
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			<td>Streptavidin</td>
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an acetyl-click chemistry assay to measure histone acetyltransferase 1 acetylation

HAT1，也称为组蛋白乙酰转移酶 1，通过在核小体组装前稳定和乙酰化新生 H4，在染色质合成中起着至关重要的作用。它是各种系统中肿瘤生长所必需的，使其成为癌症治疗的潜在靶点。为了便于鉴定可抑制HAT1酶活性的化合物，我们设计了一种用于快速筛选的乙酰点击测定法。在这个简单的测定中，我们采用重组HAT1 / Rbap46，它是从活化的人细胞中纯化的。该方法以点击化学方法利用乙酰辅酶A类似物4-戊酰辅酶A（4P）。这涉及通过 HAT1 依赖性酰化反应将炔烃手柄酶促转移到生物素化的 H4 N 末端肽上。然后将捕获的肽固定在中性亲和素平板上，然后用生物素叠氮化物进行点击化学官能团化。随后，采用链霉亲和素-过氧化物酶募集来氧化 amplex 红，从而产生定量荧光输出。通过在酰化反应过程中引入化学抑制剂，我们可以根据荧光信号的还原来量化酶抑制。重要的是，该反应具有可扩展性，可以高通量筛选HAT1酶活性的潜在抑制剂。

Among the numerous eukaryotic acetyltransferases, HAT1 was the initial histone acetyltransferase to be isolated1,2,3. Subsequent investigations have firmly established its pivotal role in chromatin replication, particularly in the synthesis of new nucleosomes during S-phase4. Our research endeavors led to the recognition that HAT1 is highly stimulated by epidermal growth factor (EGF) treatment in mammary cells5. Furthermore, it has come to light that HAT1 is required for rapid cell proliferation and tumor formation in vivo6,7,8,9. Data indicate that HAT1 is critical in coordinating anabolic and epigenetic processes for cell division, driving tumor growth.
HAT1 di-acetylates the amino-terminal tail of histone H4 on lysines 5 and 12 in complex with the chaperone protein Rbap46, which binds the histone and presents the amino-terminus to HAT1. Histone tetramers or disomes10, together with HAT1/Rbap46 and other histone chaperones11, are then imported to the nucleus. Histones are then released to be deposited at the replication fork, or other sites to support gene activation or repression. The function of the HAT1 di-acetylation mark on histone H4 is not fully understood. It is likely quickly removed within a span of 15-30 min by the action of histone deacetylases12,13,14,15 after H4 is inserted into chromatin. Thus, the HAT1 di-acetylation mark is not propagated in chromatin and may not serve a true epigenetic role, although a role in the recruitment of chromatin-modifying enzymes to nascent chromatin has been postulated12. Also, HAT1 does not directly acetylate chromatin; its activity is restricted to soluble histones.
The development of small-molecule histone acetyltransferase inhibitors has been hampered by nonspecific and low-throughput assays, often resulting in the generation of biologically reactive compounds16,17.&#160;The gold-standard assay to measure acetyltransferase activities requires the use of 3H-acetyl-coA, which limits throughput and requires radiation. Nonetheless, recently, specific and highly potent small molecule acetyltransferase inhibitors targeting CBP/p30018 and KAT6A/B19,20 have been described and confirmed through the use of 3H-acetyl-CoA. Moving forward, improved assays to achieve better throughput and avoid laboratory hazards are being devised.
Recent advances in acetylation monitoring21 have used click chemistry to enable enzymatic reaction monitoring. There are a variety of click-enabled precursors that are accessible by simple synthetic routes or available for purchase that can be incorporated into enzyme reactions. These reactions are typically carried out in recombinant systems, although cell-based assays are also feasible22. The advantage of click-enabled co-factors and substrates is that screening can directly measure enzyme activity without the need for coupled read-out systems that are often perturbed by screening compounds and require additional handling steps. This allows for inhibitor treatments only during the enzymatic step, whereas all downstream functionalization and detection steps are carried out after extensive washing to remove compounds, thus limiting the potential for assay interference to occur. These advantages make the design of click-enabled assays preferable to coupled assays that commonly rely on the detection of free coenzyme A.
One important consideration is the acceptance of click-enabled co-factors into the enzyme active site. Existing click-enabled co-factors may not be fully compatible with the active site optimized for the native co-factor. Structural information and modeling can be used to design amino acid substitutions to enlarge the active site to incorporate altered substrates23. This may enable screening with improved enzyme kinetics and lower substrate and enzyme levels. The drawback of this approach is that altered catalytic pockets may not identify inhibitors that interact strongly with the native enzyme. Ultimately, a combination of approaches is required to identify and validate potential enzyme inhibitors.
Here, we describe a method developed to purify and assay HAT1 enzyme activity using the click co-factor 4-pentynoyl-CoA24. This assay (Figure 1) uses the native enzyme sequence in complex with its required partner protein Rbap46, which has been shown to boost enzyme activity. Purification of the enzyme from human cells allows for enzyme activation in cellulo, which may preserve stimulating post-translational modifications important for full enzyme activity. Design and optimization of recombinant enzyme assays for high-throughput chemical screens have successfully been used to identify and characterize HAT1 small molecule inhibitors.

作者聚焦：开发用于 HAT1 抑制剂筛选的乙酰点击检测

用于测量组蛋白乙酰转移酶 1 乙酰化的乙酰基点击化学测定法

Our developed acetyl-click assay serves as a tool to assess HAT1 acetyl transferase activity, which is key in isolating H4 histones before nucleosome incorporation. We aim to use this method for high throughput screening of small molecule inhibitors against the HAT1 enzyme. This method measures enzymatic activity directly on the peptide substrate.This offers advantages compared to other enzymatic assays by avoiding biologic variability and antibody related costs. This is also high throughput and can be adapted to use with other acetyl transferases. We have recently published a small molecule HAT1 inhibitor based on this assay that has activity in cells and animals.We continue to use this assay to screen additional chemical libraries and perform structure activity relationships. We are advancing methods to track histone production, folding, chaperoning, and chromatin integration. This highlights the need for improved chemical tools to explore biological mechanisms and stimulate drug discovery.Our goal is to demonstrate that targeting histone production can have therapeutic benefit for diseases such as cancer.

每个板上应包含一式两份（16 孔）的标准曲线，以确保适当的测定性能。标准曲线数据应以表格形式设置，根据溶液中含 Pra 肽与天然 H4 肽的比例，范围为 100% 至 0%（表 1）。Amplex 红色信号在 100% pra/0% 天然 H4 肽孔中最高，在 0% pra/100% 天然 H4 肽孔中最低。在检测到荧光并对孔进行平均后，得到的标准品图应拟合一条直线（图2），尽管可以观察到浓度高于50%Pra的...

Watch this Scientific Journal Video about Author Spotlight: Developing Acetyl-Click Assay for HAT1 Inhibitor Screening at JoVE.com

快速准确的化学检测以筛选特定抑制剂是药物开发武器库中的重要工具。在这里，我们提出了一种可扩展的乙酰点击化学测定法来测量HAT1乙酰化活性的抑制。

HAT1, also known as Histone acetyltransferase 1, plays a crucial role in chromatin synthesis by stabilizing and acetylating nascent H4 before nucleosome ...

我们开发的乙酰点击测定可作为评估 HAT1 乙酰转移酶活性的工具，这是在核小体掺入之前分离 H4 组蛋白的关键。我们的目标是使用这种方法对针对HAT1酶的小分子抑制剂进行高通量筛选。该方法直接测量肽底物上的酶活性。与其他酶法检测相比，这具有避免生物变异性和抗体相关成本的优势。这也是高通量，可以适应与其他乙酰转移酶一起使用。我们最近发表了一种基于该测定的小分子HAT1抑制剂，该抑制剂在细胞和动物中具有活性。我们继续使用该测定来筛选其他化学库并执行结构活性关系。我们正在推进跟踪组蛋白产生、折叠、伴侣和染色质整合的方法。这凸显了对改进化学工具的需求，以探索生物学机制并刺激药物发现。我们的目标是证明靶向组蛋白产生可以对癌症等疾病有治疗益处。

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An Acetyl-Click Chemistry Assay to Measure Histone Acetyltransferase 1 Acetylation

HAT1, also known as Histone acetyltransferase 1, plays a crucial role in chromatin synthesis by stabilizing and acetylating nascent H4 before nucleosome assembly. It is required for tumor growth in various systems, making it a potential target for cancer treatment. To facilitate the identification of compounds that can inhibit HAT1 enzymatic activity, we have devised an acetyl-click assay for rapid screening. In this simple assay, we employ recombinant HAT1/Rbap46, which is purified from activated human cells. The method utilizes the acetyl-CoA analog 4-pentynoyl-CoA (4P) in a click-chemistry approach. This involves the enzymatic transfer of an alkyne handle through a HAT1-dependent acylation reaction to a biotinylated H4 N-terminal peptide. The captured peptide is then immobilized on neutravidin plates, followed by click-chemistry functionalization with biotin-azide. Subsequently, streptavidin-peroxidase recruitment is employed to oxidize amplex red, resulting in a quantitative fluorescent output. By introducing chemical inhibitors during the acylation reaction, we can quantify enzymatic inhibition based on a reduction of the fluorescence signal. Importantly, this reaction is scalable, allowing for high throughput screening of potential inhibitors for HAT1 enzymatic activity.

Quick and accurate chemical assays to screen for specific inhibitors are an important tool in the drug development arsenal. Here, we present a scalable acetyl-click chemistry assay to measure the inhibition of HAT1 acetylation activity.