Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  Bromodomain Assay
Description:  The liganded beads were blocked with excess biotin and washed with blocking buffer (SeaBlock (Pierce), 1% BSA (bovine serum albumin), 0.05% Tween 20, 1 mM DTT (dithiothreitol)) to remove unbound ligand and to reduce non-specific phage binding. Binding reactions were assembled by combining bromodomains, liganded affinity beads, and test compounds in 1× binding buffer (17% SeaBlock, 0.33x PBS, 0.04% Tween 20, 0.02% BSA, 0.004% Sodium azide, 7.4 mM DTT). Test compounds were prepared as 1000× stocks in 100% DMSO and subsequently diluted 1:10 in monoethylene glycol (MEG) to create stocks at 100× the screening concentration (resulting stock solution is 10% DMSO/90% MEG). The compounds were then diluted directly into the assays such that the final concentration of DMSO and MEG were 0.1% and 0.9%, respectively. All reactions were performed in polystyrene 96-well plates in a final volume of 0.135 ml. The assay plates were incubated at room temperature with shaking for 1 hour and the affinity beads were washed with wash buffer (1×PBS, 0.05% Tween 20). The beads were then re-suspended in elution buffer (1×PBS, 0.05% Tween 20, 2 μM nonbiotinylated affinity ligand) and incubated at room temperature with shaking for 30 minutes. The bromodomain concentration in the eluates was measured by qPCR (quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction).
Affinity data for this assay
 

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