Example 10
IC50 values for antibodies were determined by measuring the displacement of PGRN binding to Sortilin using a homogenous time resolved fluorescent (HTRF, CisBio) assay, see
Experiments were performed in assay buffer (50 mM Phosphate, pH 7.0, 0.1% BSA) in a total volume of 20 μl in a Greiner 384 well, white, low volume microtiter plate, (784075, Greiner).
The antibodies were pre-incubated for 15 min at room temperature with 50 nM HIS-tagged Sortilin ECD and 4 nM PGRN (SULU20110924) before 7 nM anti-6HIS-d2 and 0.7 nM anti-PGRN-Eu cryptate (Cisbio) diluted in conjugate buffer (50 mM Phosphate, pH 7.0, 0.8 mM KF, 0.1% BSA) were added. 200 neurotensin was used as positive control and DMSO in buffer was used as negative control.
The assay plate was incubated for 60 min at room temperature and overnight at 4° C. before the plate was read in EnVision reader (Perkin Elmer).
Unlabelled neurotensin and DMSO blank were used as positive and negative controls for the assay set up, respectively. Dose-response evaluation of antibodies was performed with ten concentrations between 1 μM and 50 μM in a 3-fold dilution curve.
The half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) were calculated by non-linear regression using a sigmoidal concentration response (variable slope) in XLfit 4 (IDBS, UK). (