Screening assays for G protein coupled receptor agonists and antagonists
AssigneeThe General Hospital Corporation
InventorsF. Richard Bringhurst, Hisashi Takasu
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Abstract
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and its closely related peptide, PTHrP, share the same receptor, PTHR. LLC-PK1 cells are porcine renal epithelial cells which do not normally express PTHR. The present invention provides stably transfected LLC-PK1 cells which express human PTHR. Also provided are methods for determining whether a compound of interest is an agonist or antagonist of a Gs or Gq protein coupled receptor.
Claims2
A method for determining whether a compound of interest affects the phospholipase C pathway and therefore is an agonist or antagonist of a receptor which couples to Gq proteins comprising:
- (a) providing LLC-PK1 cells which express urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA) and which have inhibited Gs signaling of u-PA activity;
- (b) providing an expression vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding for a G protein-coupled receptor, which couples to Gq proteins, said G protein-coupled receptor not normally expressed in said LLC-PK1 cells;
- (c) introducing said expression vector into said LLC-PK1 cells, thereby providing stably transfected cells;
- (d) contacting said stably transfected cells with said compound of interest;
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- (e) measuring the u-PA activity of the cell culture supernatant of said cells of step (d) by fluorescence or absorbence spectroscopy, thereby determining whether said compound of interest is an agonist of a receptor which couples to Gq proteins.
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