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Profiling Deacetylase Activities in Cell Lysates with Peptide Arrays and SAMDI Mass Spectrometry

Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Cell and Molecular Biology and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208 United States
§ Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, 60611 United States
Anal. Chem., 2013, 85 (22), pp 10635–10642
DOI: 10.1021/ac402614x
Publication Date (Web): October 2, 2013
Copyright © 2013 American Chemical Society
*E-mail: wmmiller@northwestern.edu (W.M.M.)., *E-mail: milan.mrksich@northwestern.edu (M.M.).

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The development of arrays that can profile molecular activities in cells is important to understanding signaling pathways in normal and pathological settings. While oligonucleotide arrays are now routinely used to profile global gene expression, there is still a lack of tools for profiling enzyme activities in cell lysates. This paper describes the combination of peptide arrays formed on self-assembled monolayers and mass spectrometry to provide a label-free approach for identifying patterns of enzyme activities in cell lysates. The approach is demonstrated by profiling lysine deacetylase (KDAC) activities in cell lysates of the CHRF megakaryocytic (Mk) cell line. Class-specific deacetylase inhibitors were used to show that terminal Mk differentiation of CHRF cells is marked by a pronounced decrease in sirtuin activity and by little change in activity of KDACs 1-11. This work establishes a platform that can be used to identify changes in global activity profiles of cell lysates for a wide variety of enzymatic activities.

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Received 16 August 2013
Date accepted 2 October 2013
Published online 2 October 2013
Published in print 19 November 2013
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