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Fluorescence polarization assay for screening FANCM-RMI inhibitors to target the alternative lengthening of telomeres
Methods Enzymol. 2024:698:361-378. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2024.04.014.
Lisa J Alcock 1, Haritha Krishna Sudhakar 2, Reginald Young 2, Yu Heng Lau 3
Abstract:
...Disrupting the FANCM-RMI interaction has emerged as a promising therapeutic strategy that induces synthetic ALT lethality in genetic studies on cancer cell lines. There are currently no chemical inhibitors reported in the literature, in part due to the lack of reliable biophysical or biochemical assays to screen for FANCM-RMI disruption. Here we describe the development of a robust competitive fluorescence polarization (FP) assay that quantifies target binding at the FANCM-RMI interface. The assay employs a labeled peptide tracer TMR-RaMM2 derived from the native MM2 binding motif, which binds to recombinant RMI1-RMI2 and can be displaced by competitive inhibitors. We report the methods for recombinant production of RMI1-RMI2, design and evaluation of the tracer TMR-RaMM2, along with unlabeled peptide inhibitor controls to enable ALT-targeted drug discovery.
PMID: 38886039
Tags: ALT, drug development, FANCM-RMI, methods