Compound (SMILES): O=C(O)COCC12CCC(OCc3cccc(Oc4ccccc4)c3)(CC1)C2
InChIKey: NKMFOIMQPSFQAC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Target: Free fatty acid receptor 4 (SINGLE PROTEIN), Homo sapiens
UniProt: Q5NUL3
Assay: AlphaScreen SureFire Assay: The human and mouse GPR120-mediated intracellular phosphorylated ERK assays were established using CHOA12 cells stably transfected with the short form of human or mouse GPR120 receptor. Cells were cultured in growth medium consisting of F-12 media (Invitrogen Cat. #11765) with 5% Charcoal/Dextran FBS (Invitrogen Cat. #12676-029), 500 μg/mL GENETICIN® (Life Technologies Cat. #10131-027) and 250 μg/mL Zeocin (Invitrogen Cat. #R250-01). Cells were cryo preserved at a concentration of 2×107 cells/mL, in 90% Charcoal/Dextran FBS and 10% DMSO, and frozen in liquid nitrogen at a low passage number.For the pERK assay, 2×107 cells/mL cryopreserved human and mouse cells were thawed rapidly in a 37° C. water bath and added to a T-225 flask containing 50 mL growth medium. The flasks were placed in a tissue culture incubator overnight (37° C., 5% CO2). The next day, cells were harvested with trypsin (Gibco Cat. #25300-054), resuspended in serum-containing growth medium and counted using a Cellometer and volume adjusted to a concentration of 0.6×106 cells/mL. Cells were plated into 384-well clear bottom tissue culture plates (BD Cat. #353962) at 50 μL/well, for a density of 30,000 cells/well using a MULTIDROP® and incubated for 16-18 hours (overnight) at 37° C. with 5% CO2. The next day, cells were serum starved in 30 μL of F-12 media without any serum or antibiotics for 2 hours at 37° C.Test compounds were 3-fold, 11-point serially diluted in DMSO in a REMP assay plate (Matrix Cat. #4307) by Tecan and 5 μL was transferred into an ECHO source plate (LabCyte Cat. #LC-0200). Cells were then stimulated with 50 nL of compound dilutions using ECHO liquid handler for 7 minutes at 37° C. Compounds ranged from final assay concentrations of 33.33 μM to 0.56 nM.The media was then dumped and cells lysed with 20 μL of 1× Lysis buffer from the AlphaScreen SureFire Phospho-ERK 1/2 Kit (Perkin Elmer Cat. #6760617M). The lysis buffer was diluted 5-fold with water before use. The plate was agitated on a shaker for 10 minutes after which 2 μL was transferred into a 384-well white proxiplate (Perkin Elmer Cat. #6008289). The SureFire assay reagent mix was prepared by mixing 60 parts Reaction Buffer, 10 parts Activation Buffer, 1 part Donor Beads, 1 part Acceptor Beads (Perkin Elmer Cat. #TGRES10K). 3.5 μL/well of this reagent mix was manually added to the proxiplate with a multichannel pipettor. Plates were spun down at 1000 rpm for 2 minutes, followed by light-protected incubation at room temperature for 2 hours. The plates were read on the Alpha-technology compatible Envision multilabel plate reader using AlphaScreen protocol according to manufacturer's specifications. The agonist effect of compounds was expressed as 100×(average sample-average blank)/(average total−average blank) where sample is the luminescence activity in the presence of test compound, blank is equal to the luminescence activity in the presence of DMSO control and the total is signal induced by 50 μM linolenic acid as reference compound. Activation data for the test compound over a range of concentrations was plotted as percentage activation of the test compound (100%=maximum response)
Measurement: EC50 = 1430 nM (pChEMBL 5.840000152587891)
Descriptors: MW 382.46, ALogP 4.8, HBA 4, HBD 1, PSA 64.99, QED 0.67