Example 7
Materials and Methods for GIP and GLP-1 Radioligand Competition Binding Assay
Membranes were prepared from mammalian cell lines overexpressing hu GIPR and hu GLP-1R and were typically stored at −80° C. in Assay Buffer: 50 mM HEPES (7.4), 5 mM MgCl2, 1 mM CaCl2, 0.2% BSA and Protease Inhibitor Tablets “EDTA Free”. Unlabeled GIP and GLP-1 peptides were obtained from Phoenix Pharmaceuticals and Radiolabeled 125I-GIP and 125I-GLP-1 were ordered from Perkin Elmer. Primary reactions were conducted for 2 h at room temperature with shaking in 96 well cell culture round bottom plates (Costar). Cell membrane concentration was fixed at 0.6 mg/mL and radioligands were used at a concentration of 0.1 nM. Test articles were titrated at six concentrations in duplicate. The primary plate was harvested after two hours with ice cold 50 mM TRIS (pH 7.4) using a Filtermate Harvester (Perkin Elmer) and cell membranes were captured on PEI-treated GF/C UniFilter plates (Perkin Elmer). Plates were dried for 15 min using a vacuum oven and Microscint 20 was added to each well before counting in a Perkin Elmer TopCount NXT HTS instrument. Specific binding was determined by taking the difference of total and non-specific counts. Non-specific wells contained 1 μM cold ligand. Data was analyzed and plotted using GraphPad Prism 7 as shown in