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SUMO (small ubiquitin-like modifier) is conjugated to substrates through an enzymatic cascade. This important posttranslational protein modification is critical for multiple biological processes. Sentrin\/SUMO-specific proteases (SENPs) act as endopeptidases to process the pre-SUMO or as isopeptidases to deconjugate SUMO from its substrate. Here, we describe a novel quantitative FRET-based protease assay for determining the kinetics of SENP1. Our strategy is based on the quantitative analysis and differentiation of fluorescent emission signals at the FRET acceptor emission wavelengths. Those fluorescent emission signals consist of three components: the FRET signal and the fluorescent emissions of donor (CyPet) and acceptor (YPet). Unlike our previous method in which donor and acceptor direct emissions were excluded by standard curves, the three fluorescent emissions were determined quantitatively during the SENP digestion process from onesample. New mathematical algorithms were developed to determine digested substrate concentrations directly from the FRET signal and donor\/acceptor direct emissions. The kinetic parameters, kcat, KM, and catalytic efficiency (kcat\/KM) of SENP1 catalytic domain for pre-SUMO1\/2\/3 were derived. Importantly, the general principles of this new quantitative methodology of FRET-based protease kinetic determinations can be applied to other proteases in a robust and systems biology approach.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s130404553","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,8]],"date-time":"2013-04-08T12:01:31Z","timestamp":1365422491000},"page":"4553-4570","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Internal Calibration F\u00f6rster Resonance Energy Transfer Assay: A Real-Time Approach for Determining Protease Kinetics"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Ling","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 59 Mucai Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, China"},{"name":"Department of Bioengineering, Center for Bioengineering Research, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioengineering, Center for Bioengineering Research, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioengineering, Center for Bioengineering Research, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"}]},{"given":"Amanda","family":"Saavedra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioengineering, Center for Bioengineering Research, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"}]},{"given":"Songqin","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California at Riverside,  900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"},{"name":"Keck Proteomics Laboratory, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology,  University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"}]},{"given":"Wensheng","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 59 Mucai Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, China"}]},{"given":"Jiayu","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioengineering, Center for Bioengineering Research, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California at Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"},{"name":"Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California at Riverside,  900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"288","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tox.2010.07.013","article-title":"Post-Translational modification by SUMO","volume":"278","author":"Hannoun","year":"2010","journal-title":"Toxicology"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4045","DOI":"10.1007\/s00018-011-0792-5","article-title":"Emerging roles of the SUMO pathway in development","volume":"68","year":"2011","journal-title":"Cell. 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