Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 380, Issue 1, Pages 99-105Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2008.05.013
Keywords
telomerase; small molecules; TRAP assay
Funding
- Cancer Research UK Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council Funding Source: Medline
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The telomerase enzyme is implicated in a large proportion of human cancers. Its major function is to maintain the length of telomeric DNA by synthesizing telomeric DNA repeats, and its enzymatic activity is assayed by means of the telomere repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assay. We show here that this assay is unable to reliably determine the ability of small molecules to inhibit the enzyme because they interfere with the PCR step of the assay, resulting in a major overestimation of their activity. We report a modified TRAP assay that incorporates the addition of an intermediate step, enabling ligand to be removed from the final PCR process using a commercially available oligonucleotide purification kit, so that more reliable estimates of telomerase inhibition can be made. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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