Assay Method Information
Assay Name:  Bioactivity Assay
Description:  Human kidney embryonic cells HEK-293T were grown in a petri dish (diameter=10 cm) containing DMEM and 10% of bovine fetal serum culture solution, and incubated in an 5% of carbon dioxide-containing incubator at 37° C. Plasmids carrying human URAT1 were transfected to HEK-293T cells using TransIT-293 (Mirus Bio LLC). After 72 hours, the petri dish containing HEK-293T cells transfected with URAT1 was removed from the incubator and the cells were inoculated on Poly-D-Lysine Coated 96-well Plates at a density of 60,000 cells per well. After the cells on the 96-well plates were grown overnight (at least 12 hours) in an incubator at 37 degrees, these cells were gently rinsed 3 times with warm and no chloride ions-containing HBSS buffer (125 mM sodium gluconate, 4.8 mM potassium gluconate, 1.3 mM calcium gluconate, 1.2 mM monopotassium phosphate, 1.2 mM magnesium sulfate, 5.6 mM glucose, 25 mM HEPES, pH 7.4). 50 microliter of HBSS buffer (not containing chloride ions) containing 0.2 microcurie of 14C-uric acid and compounds of the present application or benzbromarone, and vector was added in each well, then the cell plates were put back to the incubator at 37 degrees. After 5 min, the buffer was removed from cell wells, added with 100 microliter of ice-cold and no chloride ions-containing HBSS buffer to gently rinse cells within wells so as to stop them from absorbing 14C-uric acid, the rinsing was repeated 3 times in the same manner. 150 microliter of cell lysate (100 mM of NaOH) was added in each well. Cell plate was placed on a vibrating plate and vibrated for 10 min at a speed of 600 rpm such that the cells were completely lysed. The cell plate was put in a centrifuge and spun for 5 min at a speed of 1000 rpm, then 45 microliter of supernatant was sucked out from each well and transferred to 96-well plate (Isoplate-96 Microplate from PerkinElmer).
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