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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1998
Lance G. Laing, Belmont, MA (US);
Jaime E. Arenas, Lexington, MA (US);
Sharon T. Cload, Cambridge, MA (US);
James W. Lillie, Natick, MA (US);
Andrew A. Pakula, Lexington, MA (US);
Anadys Pharmaceutical, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for screening for bioactive compounds, in particular those that bind to RNA sequences involved in the pathogenesis of disease or in regulation of a physiological function. The methods involve assessing the stability and/or the conformation of an RNA target in the presence and absence of test ligands, and identifying as a ligand any test ligand that causes a measurable change in target RNA stability and/or conformation. In a preferred embodiment, the effect of a ligand on target RNA stability and/or conformation is assessed by measuring the fluorescence polarization of a fluorescently labeled probe.