title: Application of the MultiScreen system to cytokine radioreceptor assays.
abstract: Radioreceptor assays are becoming increasingly valuable in the biotechnology community for a variety of basic and applied research applications. It is clear, for example, that assessing the potential spectrum of biological activities of a novel polypeptide regulatory factor can be greatly simplified by the development of a rapid radioreceptor assay, since a wide variety of cell types can be screened using a single type of assay. By contrast, searching for potentially diverse biological effects can be an extremely time-consuming process. In addition, screening for agonists/antagonists for hormones using radioreceptor assays has a marked advantage compared with biological assays, in that compounds or natural products that are toxic to cells will not read out as false positives in a binding assay. Our laboratory has developed a major program centered on the molecular characterization of receptors for polypeptide hormones involved in immune regulation, including a number of cytokines/interleukins and also several colony stimulating factors. We have developed a variety of radioreceptor- and fluorescence-based assay systems for ligand-receptor interactions, with applications in basic characterization, purification, cDNA cloning, and drug development screens for cytokine receptors. In this report we compare two assay formats, a standard phthalate oil centrifugation method and a novel plate filtration system, using the interaction between interleukin-1 alpha and its receptor as a test system.
authors.affiliation: Millipore Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Slack
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Sims
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Pitt
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Dower
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001709:Biotechnology; D002474:Cell-Free System; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D011869:Radioligand Assay / Q000379:methods*; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic / Q000032:analysis*; D017472:Receptors, Interleukin-1; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007375:Interleukin-1; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic; D017472:Receptors, Interleukin-1