Low- to high-throughput analysis of telomerase modulators with Telospot.

Cristofari, Gaël; Reichenbach, Patrick; Regamey, Pierre-Olivier; Banfi, Damiano; Chambon, Marc; Turcatti, Gerardo; Lingner, Joachim · Nat Methods · 2007

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We designed a method termed Telospot to discover and characterize telomerase modulators as anticancer drugs or chemical biology tools. Telospot is based on a highly efficient human telomerase expression system and the detection of telomerase DNA reaction products in macroarray format. Telospot offers a highly scalable, cost- and time-effective alternative to presently available telomerase assays, which are limited by the requirement for PCR, telomerase purification or technologies not amenable to high throughput.

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