| Assay Method Information | |
| | Inhibition of Test Compounds NAAA Assay |
| Description: | In order to have an assay method more conducive to high-throughput screening than those published for measuring the NAE hydrolyzing activity of NAAA, the fluorogenic PEA analog N-(4-methyl coumarin)palmitamide (PAMCA), which is hydrolyzed to fluorescent 7-amino-4-methyl coumarin (AMC) and palmitic acid, was developed. For three point concentration inhibition assays with hNAAA the following procedure was used. Purified activated NAAA (final concentration of 0.25 μg/mL) was incubated in assay buffer (100 mM citrate-phosphate buffer, pH 4.5, 3 mM DTT, 0.1% Triton X-100, 0.05% BSA, and 150 mM NaCl) made up to a total volume of 180 μL, followed by addition of the compound dissolved in 10 μL DMSO (along with DMSO neat for the control sample) with the final concentrations for each compound of 100, 10, and 1 μM, in triplicate on a 96 well plate. These samples were allowed to incubate for 15 min at room temperature and then 10 μL of a PAMCA stock solution in DMSO (final PAMCA concentration [5 μM]) was added. After 5 minutes of agitation on a shaking plate, the reaction was allowed to proceed at 37° C. for 120 minutes, with fluorescence readings taken every 10 minutes at a wavelength of 460 nm (using an excitation wavelength of 360 nm) on a Synergy HT Plate Reader using Gen5 software from Bio-Tek. The enzyme activity was calculated by converting the relative fluorescence units to AMC formed, using a standard curve of AMC. |
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