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Development of Cell Permeable NanoBRET Probes for the Measurement of PLK1 Target Engagement in Live Cells

Yang, X.; Smith, J. L.; Beck, M. T.; Wilkinson, J. M.; Michaud, A.; Vasta, J. D.; Robers, M. B.; Willson, T. M.

2023-02-25 cell biology
10.1101/2023.02.25.529946 bioRxiv
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PLK1 is a protein kinase that regulates mitosis and is both an important oncology drug target and a potential anti-target of drugs for the DNA damage response pathway or anti-infective host kinases. To expand the range of live cell NanoBRET target engagement assays to include PLK1 we developed an energy transfer probe based on the anilino-tetrahydropteridine chemotype found in several selective PLK inhibitors. Probe 11 was used to configure NanoBRET target engagement assays for PLK1, PLK2, and PLK3 and measure the potency of several known PLK inhibitors. In cell target engagement for PLK1 was in good agreement with the reported cellular potency for inhibition of cell proliferation. Probe 11 enabled investigation of the promiscuity of adavosertib, which had been described as a dual PLK1/WEE1 inhibitor in biochemical assays. Live cell target engagement analysis of adavosertib by NanoBRET demonstrated PLK activity at micromolar concentrations but only selective engagement of WEE1 at clinically relevant doses. Graphical Abstract O_FIG O_LINKSMALLFIG WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=78 SRC="FIGDIR/small/529946v3_ufig1.gif" ALT="Figure 1"> View larger version (13K): org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@914466org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@1219b65org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@1613ff6org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@1ae69a1_HPS_FORMAT_FIGEXP M_FIG C_FIG

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