Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  Radioligand Binding Assay
Description:  Rat: The TAAR1 radioligand 3[H]-(S)-4-[(ethyl-phenyl-amino)-methyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine (described in WO 2008/098857) was used at a concentration equal to the calculated Kd value, that was usually around 2.3 nM, resulting in the binding of approximately 0.2% of the radioligand and a specific binding representing approximately 85% of the total binding. Nonspecific binding was defined as the amount of 3[H]-(S)-4-[(ethyl-phenyl-amino)-methyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine bound in the presence of 10 μM unlabeled ligand. All compounds were tested at a broad range of concentrations (10 pM to 10 μM) in duplicates. The test compounds (20□ μl/well) were transferred into a 96 deep well plate (TreffLab), and 180 μl of HEPES-NaOH (20 mM, pH 7.4) containing MgCl2 (10 mM) and CaCl2 (2 mM) (binding buffer), 300 μl of the radioligand 3[H]-(S)-4-[(ethyl-phenyl-amino)-methyl]-4,5-dihydro-oxazol-2-ylamine at a concentration of 3.3×Kd in nM and 500 μl of the membranes (resuspended at 50 g protein per ml) added.
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