摘要:
The invention concerns a quantitative non-microscopic method for detecting intracellular interaction between biomolecules, on living cells, responsive to a biological or pharmacological stimulation, by time-resolved proximate energy transfer effect between a fluorescence donor/acceptor pair. The invention is useful for high throughput screening of molecules and intracellular signalling pathway detection.
摘要:
A method for detecting the internalization of a transmembrane protein of interest expressed at the surface of a cell, comprising the following steps: a) labelling the protein of interest with a fluorescent metal complex, the lifetime of which is greater than 0.1 ms; b) adding to the reaction medium a composition capable of causing the internalization of the protein of interest; c) adding to the reaction medium a modulating agent selected from: a. a fluorescent or nonfluorescent FRET acceptor compound compatible with said fluorescent metal complex, the final concentration of which in the reaction medium is greater than 10 ‑7 M; b. a reducing agent, the redox potential of which is less than +0.1 V and preferably between 0.25 and 0.75 V; c. an agent which binds specifically, by noncovalent bonding, with the fluorescent metal complex; d. a metal ion which competes with the rare earth so as to form a nonfluorescent metal complex; d) measuring the luminescence emitted by the reaction medium at the emission wavelength of the fluorescent metal complex and/or at the emission wavelength of the modulating compound when said compound is a fluorescent acceptor compound; e) comparing the signal measured in step d) with a reference signal measured on cells having been subjected only to steps a) and c). Use: Method for detecting membrane protein internalization.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for detection of ligands (agonists or antagonists) specific to a receptor (RCPG) coupled to a G protein, comprising the following steps; 1) bring a receptor marked with a member of a donor/acceptor pair into contact with a Gα or Gß? sub-unit of a G protein marked with the other member of the donor/acceptor pair and 2) measure the transfer by proximity effect between the donor and acceptor. The above is of application to the screening of novel medicaments.