Article: Testing drug-protein affinities.(Life Science)(Measuring Enzyme-Substrate Affinities)(Caldera Pharmaceuticals)(Brief Article)

Measuring the binding affinity between a drug candidate and human proteins is a key element in the development of new drugs. A number of options exist for screening drugs against a few proteins, but few methods exist for screening a drug against many proteins. A system developed by George Havrilla at Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., and Benjamin Warner at Caldera Pharmaceuticals, also in Los Alamos, named MESA (Measuring Enzyme-Substrate Affinities), corrects this technology gap by rapidly and inexpensively measuring the full pharmacological profile--both therapeutic and toxicological--of drugs, thus allowing ...

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