Label-Free Real-Time Microarray Imaging of Cancer Protein-Protein Interactions and Their Inhibition by Small Molecules

Anal Chem. 2016 Mar 15;88(6):3130-5. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04234. Epub 2016 Feb 29.

Abstract

A rapid optical microarray imaging approach for anticancer drug screening at specific cancer protein-protein interface targets with binding kinetics and validation by a mass sensor is reported for the first time. Surface plasmon resonance imager (SPRi) demonstrated a 3.5-fold greater specificity for interactions between murine double minute 2 protein (MDM2) and wild-type p53 over a nonspecific p53 mutant in a real-time microfluidic analysis. Significant percentage reflectivity changes (Δ%R) in the SPRi signals and molecular-level mass changes were detected for both the MDM2-p53 interaction and its inhibition by a small-molecule Nutlin-3 drug analogue known for its anticancer property. We additionally demonstrate that synthetic, inexpensive binding domains of interacting cancer proteins are sufficient to screen anticancer drugs by an array-based SPRi technique with excellent specificity and sensitivity. This imaging array, combined with a mass sensor, can be used to study quantitatively any protein-protein interaction and screen for small molecules with binding and potency evaluations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Neoplasm Proteins / chemistry
  • Neoplasm Proteins / metabolism*
  • Protein Binding
  • Quantum Theory
  • Tissue Array Analysis*

Substances

  • Neoplasm Proteins