| Assay Method Information | |
| | Radioligand Binding Assay |
| Description: | The following examples of the in vitro effects of the disclosed compounds are prophetic. An example of an in vitro assay method for assessing the receptor ligand binding activity of the disclosed compounds is given below. Competition binding studies can be performed with the allosteric antagonist [.sup.3H]methoxyPEPy to determine if the disclosed compounds interact with the well-characterized allosteric binding site for the mGluR5 NAM MPEP.The allosteric antagonist MPEP analog [.sup.3H]methoxyPEPy is used to evaluate the ability of test compounds to interact with the MPEP site on mGluR5 (Cosford et al., Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2003, 13, 351). Membranes are prepared from rat mGluR5 HEK293 cells (Rodriguez et al., Mol. Pharmacol. 2005, 68, 1793). Compounds are diluted in assay buffer (50 mM Tris/0.9% NaCl, pH 7.4) to a 5.times. stock and 100 .mu.L test compound is added to each well of a 96 deep-well assay plate. 300 .mu.L aliquots of membranes diluted in assay buffer (40 .mu.g/well) are added to each well. 100 .mu.L [.sup.3H]methoxyPEPy (2 nM final concentration) is added and the reaction is incubated at room temperature for 1 hour with shaking. After the incubation period, the membrane-bound ligand is separated from free ligand by filtration through glass-fiber 96 well filter plates (Unifilter-96, GF/B, PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, Boston, Mass.). The contents of each well are transferred simultaneously to the filter plate and washed 3-4 times with assay buffer using a cell harvester (Brandel Cell Harvester, Brandel Inc., Gaithersburg, Md.). 40 .mu.L scintillation fluid is added to each well and the membrane-bound radioactivity determined by scintillation counting (TopCount, PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences). Non-specific binding is estimated using 5 .mu.M MPEP. Concentration response curves were generated using a four parameter logistical equation in GraphPad Prism (GraphPad Software, Inc., La Jolla, Calif.). |
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