Journal: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Article Title: Development of BromoTag: A “Bump-and-Hole”–PROTAC System to Induce Potent, Rapid, and Selective Degradation of Tagged Target Proteins
doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c01532
Figure Lengend Snippet: Cellular mechanistic characterization of AGB1 ( 46 ) degradation activity. (A) Western blot illustrating the on -target degradation activity of 46 is dependent on the activity of CRL2 VHL and proteasome and on BromoTag target engagement. BromoTag-Brd2 HEK293 cells were treated with 200 nM 46 (3 h) following pretreatment (1 h) with the proteasome inhibitor MG132, neddylation inhibitor MLN4924, VHL inhibitor VH298, or BromoTag inhibitor ET-JQ1-OMe or DMSO vehicle. (B) Western blots demonstrating the recovery of BromoTag-Brd2 post-removal of 200 nM 46 after a 3 h treatment in heterozygous BromoTag-Brd2 HEK293 cells. Control experiments for no-wash and vehicle treatments are included. Bands are normalized to tubulin protein levels and compared to a vehicle control (DMSO) to quantify the final protein levels of BromoTag-Brd2. (C) Effect on antiproliferation of 46 compared to MZ1 and non-degrader controls 52 and cis -MZ1. Staurosporine was used as a positive control for cytotoxicity. MV-4-11, 22Rv1, and HEK293 cells were treated with varying concentrations of compound, and after 24, 48, and 48 h, respectively, the cells were subjected to the Promega CellTiter-Glo cell viability assay. The pEC 50 values (±S.E.M) are mean from N = 2 for MV-4-11 and 22Rv1 cells and N = 3 for HEK293 cells from data normalized from vehicle control (DMSO).
Article Snippet: The HEK293 human embryonic kidney adherent cell line (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) was cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Thermo Fisher, Waltham, MA, USA) and 1% (v/v) penicillin/streptomycin (pen/strep) (#15140122, Thermo Fisher, Waltham, MA, USA) at 37 °C, 5% CO 2 , and 95% humidity.
Techniques: Activity Assay, Western Blot, Drug discovery, Control, Positive Control, Viability Assay