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New image-based cellular profiling tool peers deeply into metabolic biology

Broad Institute

The researchers also looked at the tool’s ability to detect changes in cellular phenotypes after exposure to drugs and small molecule compounds. With high-resolution, cell-based profiling techniques, extracting a large amount of data can be done cheaply and efficiently.

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Expanding Your Assay Specificity: Cisbio Joins PerkinElmer

PerkinElmer

The structure of HTRF reagents also makes assays highly resistant to most experimental conditions, and particularly well suited for cell-based assays. The post Expanding Your Assay Specificity: Cisbio Joins PerkinElmer first appeared on PerkinElmer Blog. Learn more about Cisbio here.

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Assays for the Future of Drug Discovery

PerkinElmer

Here are two predictions for the future: Alpha CETSA ® for target engagement While traditional assay methods detect either the displacement of a radioligand binding to the target by a competitor molecule, or the modulation of some function of the target, a new method is making headway: Cellular Thermo Shift Assay (CETSA) from Pelago Bioscience.

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On quality criteria for covalent and degrader probes

Molecular Design

In any case, it needed to be made clear that the quality criteria proposed by the authors for covalently acting small-molecule probes only apply to probes that act irreversibly. Subscripting doesn't work well in blogger and so I'll use K.i As measurement of k.inact/K.i

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Broad Institute

The researchers also looked at the tool’s ability to detect changes in cell morphology after exposure to drugs and small molecule compounds. With high-resolution, cell-based profiling techniques, extracting large numbers of data can be done cheaply and efficiently.

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Archbishop Ussher's guide to efficient selection of development candidates

Molecular Design

Nevertheless, those small molecule drug properties that show consistent differentiation from their target compounds over time, namely, potency, ligand efficiencies (LE and LLE), and the aromatic ring count and lipophilicity of carboaromatic drugs, are those that are most likely to remain future-proof.

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Chemical con artists foil drug discovery

Molecular Design

The effects of curcumin, EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), genistein and resveratrol on four membrane proteins were reported in Ref9 and these effects would raise doubts about activity for any of these compounds (or their close structural analogs) that had been observed in a cell-based assay.

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