Leilei Zhang, Yu Yan, Zijie Liu, Abliz Zeper, Gang Liu*, Identification of Peptide Substrate and Small Molecule Inhibitors of Testis-specific Serine/Threonine Kinase1 (TSSK1) By the Developed Assays, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2009, 52, 4419-4428.

Abstract In this paper, a peptide substrate (Pep8) of TSSK1 is identified. Using Pep8 as a substrate, two homogeneous and efficient assays for TSSK1 inhibitors screening have been developed, including luminescent kinase assay and LC-MS-based high-throughput assay. Two classes of compounds were identified that are able to efficiently inhibit phosphorylation catalyzed by TSSK1.......