Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  Scintillation Proximity Assay (SPA)
Description:  A portion of the human PDE4D3 coding sequence (amino acids 50 to 672 from the sequence with accession number Q08499-2) was cloned into the baculovirus expression vector pFastBac (Invitrogen) engineered to include a C-terminal His6 affinity tag to aid in purification as described in Seeger, T. F. et al., Brain Research 985 (2003) 113-126. The recombinant Bacmid was isolated and used to transfect insect cells to generate a viral stock. To generate cell paste for purification, insect cells were infected and cells were harvested 72 hours after infection. Insect cell paste was lysed and after centrifugation, the supernatant was chromatographed on Ni-NTA agarose (Qiagen) as described in Seeger, T. F. et al., Brain Research 985 (2003) 113-126. Ni-NTA agarose eluting fractions containing PDE4 were pooled, diluted with Q Buffer A (50 mM Tris HCl pH 8, 4% glycerol, 100 mM NaCl, 1 mM TCEP, Protease inhibitors EDTA-free (Roche)) to reduce NaCl to ˜200 mM, and loaded on a Q Sepharose (GE Healthcare) column. After washing with Q buffer A to baseline, PDE4D was eluted with a gradient from 10% to 60% of Buffer B (50 mM Tris HCl pH 8, 1 M NaCl, 4% glycerol, 1 mM TCEP). PDE4D fractions were analyzed by SDS-PAGE Coomassie blue staining, pooled based on purity, frozen and stored at −80° C.
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