| Assay Method Information | |
| | Inhibition of Lysine Gingipain |
| Description: | The capacities of compounds of the present invention to inhibit the activity of lysine gingipain were measured in a fluorogenic assay similar to those described in Barret Biochemical Journal. 1980, 187(3), 909. The specific assay conditions were as follows. Buffer: pH=7.5, 100 mM Tris-HCl, 75 mM NaCl, 2.5 mM CaCl2, 10 mM cysteine, 1% DMSO after all additions. Protein: 0.1 nM Kgp, isolated from culture of Porphyromonas gingivalis, as described in Pike et al. J. Biol. Chem. 1994, 269(1), 406, and Potempa and Nguyen. Current Protocols in Protein Scienc. 2007, 21.20.1-21.20.27. Fluorogenic substrate: 10 uM Z-His-Glu-Lys-MCA. Time=90 minutes. Temperature=37° C. Each compound: 10 concentrations, starting at either 100 uM or 100 nM, with lower concentrations generated by serial 3-fold dilutions. By testing a range of concentrations for each compound, the concentration required to inhibit the activity of lysine gingipain by 50% (the IC50 ) was determined. Under the described assay conditions, signal-to-noise was excellent, and Z factor was greater than 0.6. |
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