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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: Chembiochem. 2010 Nov 9;12(2):281–289. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201000434

Scheme 3.

Scheme 3

Diagram of a fluorescence-based assay, like the Fluor de Lys (BIOMOL), displaying reactants and products of the reaction used to monitor Sirtuin activity.[2a, 36a] The p53-derived acetyl lysine peptide is covalently conjugated to a 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (AMC) fluorophore. Deacetylation sensitizes the lysine residue to a trypsin developer that cleaves at the C-terminal end of deacetylated lysine and exposes the fluorescent tag resulting in an increase in fluorescent signal.