G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Microarrays for Multiplexed Compound Screening

Abstract

Conventional assay methods for discovering and profiling drug-target interactions are typically developed on a target-by-target basis and hence can be cumbersome to enable and orchestrate. Herein the authors report a solid-state ligand-binding assay that operates in a multiplexed mode to report compound activity against a micorarray-configured panel of G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets. The pharmacological fidelity of the system is high, and its miniaturized “plug-and-play” format provides improved efficiency both in terms of execution time and reagent consumption. Taken together, these features make the system ideally suited to explore the structure-activity relationship of compounds across a broad region of target class space.

Keywords

GPCR array binding assay fluorescent HTS

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