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nanoDSF: Label-free thermal unfolding assay of G protein-coupled receptors for compound screening and buffer composition optimization

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APPLICATION NOTE Thermal Unfolding of GPCRs nanoDSF: Label-free Thermal Unfolding Assay of G Protein-Coupled Receptors for Compound Screening and Buffer Composition Optimization Matthias Haff ke 1 , Gabriele Rummel 1 , Jacques Boivineau 1 , Anna Münch 2 and Veli-Pekka Jaakola 1 1 Center for Proteomic Chemistry, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland 2 NanoTemper Technologies GmbH Munich, Germany Abstract A thermal unfolding based assay using low volume diff erential intrinsic tryptophan scanning fl uorimetry (nanoDSF) was applied to study the stabilizing eff ects of ligands on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs are the fourth largest superfamily in the human genome and are the largest class of targets for drug discovery. The system has been validated using human adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR). A2AR binds natural (adenosine and caff eine) and synthetic ligands with diff erent aff inities to mediate a variety of physiological and pharmacological responses. Several well-characterized ligands were used for the unfolding experiments. The ∆T m shi values obtained from nanoDSF analysis and traditional ligand binding studies correlate well with each other. We further characterized a second human GPCR target (test-GPCR) for which traditional cysteine-reactive DSF has been problematic. nanoDSF demonstrated that small molecule ligands can stabilize the detergent-solubilized receptor, thus showing the target GPCR is active in a selected detergent and lipid-free environment. In addition, we report a buff er composition screen to further stabilize the receptor in its detergent environment for biophysical assays. Based on our results, we show that the nanoDSF technology will allow the development of an automated screening platform in a label-free environment to evaluate a large number of compounds for lead discovery and to improve receptor

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