Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  Measurement of Calcium Channel Flux by Means of FLIPR Assay
Description:  Stock solutions of test compounds are prepared to a concentration of 10 mM in DMSO. For the Cav3.2 assay, serial dilutions of the compounds are prepared in TEAC buffer (100 mM tetraethylammonium chloride; 20 mM Hepes; 2.5 mM CaCl2; 5 mM KCl; 1 mM MgCl2; 1% FBS; pH 7.2), for the Cav1.2 assay serial dilutions are prepared in assay buffer. Test compounds are added to the cells to give a 3-fold dilution range from 10 μM to 0.05 nM. The compounds are incubated with the cells for 3 minutes and Ca2+ entry is stimulated by adding either CaCl2 to a final concentration of 10 mM (Cav3.2 assay) or by adding KCl to a final concentration of 20 mM (Cav1.2 assay). The kinetics of fluorescence increase are recorded for every well and the area under the fluorescence trace for every compound concentration is used to generate inhibition curves using non-linear regression sigmoidal concentration-response curve analysis with in-house software. IC50 values are calculated and represent the compound concentration required to inhibit 50% of the signal that is obtained in the presence of vehicle instead of test compound. In analogy, antagonistic activities (IC50 values) of all exemplified compounds have been measured for the for the Cav3.1- and the Cav3.3-channel. Antagonistic activities (IC50 values) of all exemplified compounds are in the range of 1.7 to 970 nM with respect to Cav3.1; and in the range of 1.1 to 620 nM with respect to Cav3.3.
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