Published: Vol 4, Iss 6, Mar 20, 2014 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1070 Views: 10436
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Abstract
We designed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based approach to study the ligand binding constants of the adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR). Our assay is based in the interaction of a fluorescent A2AR agonist ligand (MRS5424) with an A2AR tagged with the cyan fluorescent protein (CFP) at the N-terminus (i.e. A2ARCFP) and expressed in living cells. Thus, upon fast superfusion of the A2ARCFP expressing cells with MRS5424, the ligand-receptor interaction is determined by single-cell FRET in a real-time mode. Accordingly, our approach allowed immediate ‘real-time’ readout of the ligand-receptor interaction, thus allowing kinetic binding experiments, a feature impossible to achieve using conventional radioisotope-labelled ligands. In addition, since our assay permitted the visual confirmation of receptor localization it also allowed localized saturation binding experiments.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by grants SAF2011-24779, Consolider-Ingenio CSD2008-00005 and PCIN-2013-019-C03-03 from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and ICREA Academia-2010 from the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (to FC), by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Intramural Research Program (to KAJ). FC belong to the “Neuropharmacology and Pain” accredited research group (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2014 SGR 1251). We thank E. Castaño and B. Torrejón from the Scientific and Technical Services (SCT) group at the Bellvitge Campus of the University of Barcelona for their technical assistance.
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Fernández-Dueñas, V., Jacobson, K. A. and Ciruela, F. (2014). Adenosine A2A Receptor Ligand Binding Experiments by Using Real-time Single-cell FRET. Bio-protocol 4(6): e1070. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1070.
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Neuroscience > Cellular mechanisms > Receptor-ligand binding
Biochemistry > Protein > Interaction
Cell Biology > Single cell analysis > Cell carrier
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