| Assay Method Information | |
| | DYRK1A activity assay |
| Description: | SH-SY5Y cells are cultured in DMEM/F-12 medium supplemented with 15% FBS, Non-essential Amino Acid and Penicillin/Streptamycin. Two days before treatment, cells are seeded onto 96 well plates at 20e5 cells/well.DMSO-resuspended compounds are dispensed to 8 wells as a serial titration from 10 μM to 4.6 nM final and cells are exposed overnight (16-18 h) before harvest. Wells are visualized checked for cell death or change in morphology and supernatants are tested for cytotoxicity by measurement of lactate dehydrogenase release (LDH, CytoToxOne kit, Progema) if necessary. As controls, commercially available DYRK1A inhibitors, Harmine and Indy were shown to have good DYRK1A inhibition in the kinase assay with no CDK1 activity (EC50 18 and 53n M respectively, 6 μM for CDK1) but weak EC50 in the Tau assay: about 10 μM for Harmine and 30 μM for Indy.Cells are lyzed with RIPA buffer complemented with phosphatase and protease inhibitors (Thermo Scientific) then lysates are sonicated and spun down at 12,000 g for 10 min to remove any cellular debris. Lysates are then either directly tested for pSer396 by ELISA (Life Technology, Kit KHB7031) or loaded on NuPage Bis-Tris gels for western blot analysis. Colorimetric detection of ELISA signal is performed by Cytation3 plate reader (Biotek) and the chemoluminecence signal for HRP-linked antibodies used in western blotting is detected using a Carestream Image Station. The same pSer396 antibody is used for detection of pTau in both assays.Blot densitometry for pSer396 and beta-actin are analyzed using ImageJ (NIH) and pSer396/Total Tau ELISA signal was used to plot, draw the curve fitting, and determine each compounds EC50 in Prism (GraphPad). |
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