Sphingosine kinase assay system with fluorescent detection in high performance liquid chromatography

  • You Xun Jin
  • , Hwan Soo Yoo
  • , Akio Kihara
  • , Chang Hwan Choi
  • , Seikwan Oh
  • , Dong Cheul Moon
  • , Yasuyuki Igarashi
  • , Yong Moon Lee

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Abstract

Activation of Sphingosine kinase (Sphk) increases a bioactive lipid, sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) and has been observed in a variety of cancer cells. Therefore, inhibition of Sphk activity was an important target for the development of anticancer drugs. As a searching tool for Sphk inhibitor, we developed fluorescent Sphk activity assay combined with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Previously we established murine teraticarcinoma mutant F9-12 cells which lack S1P lyase and stably express Sphk1. By using F9-12 cells, optimal assay conditions were established as follows; 100 μM of C 17-Sph and 30 μg protein of F9-12 cells lysate in 20 min. Sphingosine analog C17-Sph was efficiently phosphorylated by Sphk activity (Km :67.08 μM, Vmax :1507.5 pmol/min/mg). New product C17-S1P was separated from S1P in reversed-phase HPLC. In optimized conditions, 300 nM of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) increased Sphk activity approximately twice while 20 μM of N,N-dimethylsphingosine (DMS) reduced 70% of Sphk activity in F9-12 cells lysate. In conclusion, we established non-radioactive but convenient Sphk assay system by using HPLC and F9-12 cells.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1049-1054
Number of pages6
JournalArchives of Pharmacal Research
Volume29
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Nov 2006

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the research grant of the Chungbuk National University in 2004.

Keywords

  • Activity
  • HPLC
  • Sphingosine 1-phosphate
  • Sphingosine kinase

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