Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  BB2 Receptor Antagonistic Activity
Description:  A BB2 receptor binding test was carried out using a membrane sample prepared from a human prostate cancer-derived PC-3 cell. The PC-3 cell was cultured using an RPMI-1640 medium containing 5% fetal bovine serum, and then a membrane sample was prepared by the following methods. The cells detached by a trypsin treatment were added with a 50 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 7.4, containing 0.2 mg/ml trypsin inhibitor and 0.2 mg/ml benzamidine), and homogenized by Polytron. The cell suspension was centrifuged at 1,500 rpm for 10 minutes, and the supernatant thus obtained was subjected to 1 hour of ultracentrifugation at 37,000×g. The precipitate was suspended in the aforementioned buffer to a concentration of 0.4 mg protein/ml, and stored at −80° C.The BB2 receptor binding test was carried out by the following method, and the receptor antagonistic activity of a compound to be tested was calculated. A 50 μl of the membrane sample, 50 μl of an assay buffer (20 mM HEPES-HBSS containing 0.1% bovine serum albumin and 0.1 mg/ml bacitracin, pH 7.4), 125I [Tyr4] bombesin (0.075 nM) and 2 μl of the compound to be tested dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide were added to a 96 well assay plate, and incubated at room temperature for 2 hours. Non-specific binding was measured using 1 μM of bombesin. After completion of the incubation, the reaction solution was filtered through a Whatman GF/B filter which had been soaked in 0.5% polyethyleneimine. The radioactivity on the filter was measured using a microplate scintillation counter (Top Count, Perkin-Elmer Co., Ltd.).
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