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ArticleCurrent chemical genomics2012

A homogenous luminescence assay reveals novel inhibitors for giardia lamblia carbamate kinase.

Catherine Z Chen, Noel Southall, Andrey Galkin, Kap Lim, Juan J Marugan, Liudmila Kulakova, Paul Shinn, Danielle van Leer, Wei Zheng, Osnat Herzberg

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Article in Current chemical genomics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Catherine Z ChenNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Noel Southall
Andrey Galkin
Kap Lim
Juan J Marugan
Liudmila Kulakova
Paul Shinn
Danielle van Leer
Wei Zheng
Osnat Herzberg
National Institutes of Health · USInstitute for Bioscience and Biotechnology ResearchAdvanced Bioscience Laboratories (United States) · USNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences · US

Funding

Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases - ScienceZIBTR000002 · NCATS · NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES · PI MCKEW, JOHN · 2012 to 2014
$77.2M
Giardia drug targets: Structure, function and inhibitorsR56AI059733 · NIAID · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI HERZBERG, OSNAT · 2010 to 2010
$714k
NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI059733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human pathogen Giardia lamblia is an anaerobic protozoan parasite that causes giardiasis, one of the most common diarrheal diseases worldwide. Although several drugs are available for the treatment of giardisis, resistance to these drugs has been reported and is likely to increase. The Giardia carbamate kinase (glCK) plays an essential role in Giardia metabolism and has no homologs in humans, making it an attractive candidate for anti-Giardia drug development. We have developed a luminescent enzyme coupled assay to measure the activity of glCK by quantitating the amount of ATP produced by the enzyme. This assay is homogeneous and has been miniaturized into a 1536-well plate format. A pilot screen against 4,096 known compounds using this assay yielded a signal-to-basal ratio of 11.5 fold and Z' factor of 0.8 with a hit rate of 0.9 % of inhibitors of glCK. Therefore, this Giardia lamblia carbamate kinase assay is useful for high throughput screening of large compound collection for identification of the inhibitors for drug development.

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assay development.Carbamate kinaseGiardiahigh throughput screening

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PMID23400734
PMCPMC3565245
OpenAlexW2152955833

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