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Methods of screening for agents that modulate the interaction of RGS and Gαq and urinary incontinence

  • US 7,846,671 B2
  • Filed: 01/27/2003
  • Issued: 12/07/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of screening to identify a candidate agent that agonizes interaction of a regulator of G protein signaling (RGS) polypeptide and a G protein subunit alpha q (Gα

  • q) polypeptide, said method comprising;

    (a) contacting a RGS polypeptide and a Gα

    q polypeptide with a candidate agent, wherein said RGS polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of human RGS2 (SEQ ID NO.;

         26), human RGS6 (SEQ ID NO.;

    27), human RGS7 (SEQ ID NO.;

    7), human RGS9 (SEQ ID NO.;

    11), or human RGS11 (SEQ ID NO.;

    9), and, wherein said Gα

    q polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of human Gα

    q (SEQ ID NO.;

    13);

    (b) detecting an amount of binding of said RGS polypeptide to said Gα

    q polypeptide in the presence of the candidate agent;

    (c) detecting a reference amount of binding of said RGS polypeptide to said Gα

    q polypeptide in the absence of the candidate agent; and

    (d) comparing the amount of binding of said RGS polypeptide to said Gα

    q polypeptide in the presence of the candidate agent to the reference amount of binding,wherein an increase in the amount of binding detected in the presence of the candidate agent relative to the reference amount of binding indicates that the candidate agent binds to said RGS polypeptide or Gα

    q polypeptide, and agonizes interaction of RGS and Gα

    q, and wherein said candidate agent is not a guanine nucleotide.

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