Assay Report Card

ID: ALA3888198

Type: Binding

Description: HDAC Activity Assay: HDAC assay is performed using fluorescently-labeled acetylated substrate, which comprises an acetylated lysine side chain. After incubation with HDAC, deacetylation of the substrate sensitizes the substrate such that, in a second step, treatment with the detection enzyme produces a fluorophore. HDACs 1 and 6 were expressed as full length fusion proteins. Purified proteins were incubated with 50 μM fluorescently-labeled acetylated peptide substrate and test compound for 2 hours at RT in HDAC assay buffer containing 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 1% DMSO, and 1% BSA. Reactions were terminated by the addition of the Developer after 2 hours, and the development of fluorescence signal, which was relative to the amount of deacetylated peptide, was monitored by time-course measurement of EnVision (PerkinElmer). The HDAC activity was estimated from the slope of time-course measurement of the fluorescence intensity.

Organism: Homo sapiens