| Assay Method Information | |
| | Transactivation assays |
| Description: | Transcriptional transactivation assays were performed with gal4 fusion receptor constructs, created using each of the RAR ligand binding domains of either mouse or human, co-transfected with the pFR-luc (Stratagene) reporter construct in COS-7 cells. Thus, transfected cells will constitutively express the gal4-RAR fusion protein which in turn may be transactivated by all trans retinoic acid (atRA) to induce the expression of the luciferase that is driven by a gal4UAS.Briefly, on day 1, 96 well plates were seeded with 8000 cells per well then left to recover overnight. On day 2, the cells were co-transfected with 100 ng of reporter plasmid and 10 ng of the appropriate receptor plasmid per well using lipofectamine (Invitrogen). On day 3, the lipofectamine containing media was replaced by a DMEM without phenol red, followed by the addition of test compound dissolved in 1 μL of DMSO to each well's 100 μL total volume. Finally, on day 4, the cells were lysed and their luciferase substrate was provided by the BrightGlo reagent (Promega), the plates were then read on the MicroBeta TriLux (Perkin Elmer).On each plate, an 8 point dose-response curve of atRA was run in duplicate and dose-response curves of test compounds were also generated in duplicate.EC50 data both for test compounds and atRA was generated by fitting dose-response curves using GraphPad Prism . Data for test compounds are quoted as EC50 values. Where replicate data has been generated, the data are quoted as the mean EC50 from the separate experiments. |
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