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FLUOR DE LYS® SIRT1 fluorometric drug discovery assay kit

BML-AK555

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ELISA kit
  • BML-AK555-0001   —   96 wells
    $874.00
  • Useful for inhibitor screening or characterizing enzyme kinetics
  • Includes optimal substrate selected from a panel of acetylated sites in p53 and histones
  • Supplied with enough recombinant enzyme for 96 assays (1 x 96-well plate)

A FLUOR DE LYS® fluorescent assay system. The SIRT1 Fluorescent Activity Assay/Drug Discovery Kit is a complete assay system designed to measure the lysyl deacetylase activity of the recombinant human SIRT1 included in the kit. The kit is ideal for chemical library screening for candidate inhibitors or activators or kinetic assay of the enzyme under varying conditions. The FLUOR DE LYS® SIRT1 assay is based on the FLUOR DE LYS® SIRT1 Substrate and FLUOR DE LYS® Developer II combination. The assay procedure has two steps. First, the FLUOR DE LYS® SIRT1 Substrate, which contains a peptide comprising amino acids 379-382 of human p53 (Arg-His-Lys-Lys(Ac)). Deacetylation of the substrate sensitizes the substrate so that, in the second step, treatment with the FLUOR DE LYS®Developer II produces a fluorophore.

Yeast Sir2 (Silent information regulator 2) is the founding exemplar of the ’sirtuins’, an apparently ancient group of enzymes that occurs in eukaryotes, the archaea and eubacteria. In yeast and C. elegans, added copies of sirtuin genes extend lifespan and Sir2 is required for the lifespan extension conferred by caloric restriction in yeast. There are seven human sirtuins, which have been designated SIRT1-SIRT7. SIRT1, which is located in the nucleus, is the human sirtuin with the greatest homology to Sir2 and has been shown to exert a regulatory effect on p53 by deacetylation of lysine-382. Dr. Konrad Howitz at Enzo Life Sciences carried out a screen for modulators of SIRT1 activity which yielded a number of small molecule activators, all of which were plant polyphenols. Several of these Sirtuin Activating Compounds (STACs) extended yeast lifespan in a way that mimicked caloric restriction. Resveratrol, the most potent of these STACs activated SIRT1 in human cells and enhanced the survival rate of cells stressed by irradiation.

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RUO – Research Use Only