Drug Development

New Drug Development research from University of Strasbourg described

Published in Drug Law Weekly, October 9th, 2007

According to a study from Strasbourg, France, "A challenge of the post-genomic era is to determine the functions of a plethora of orphan genes. This is a more acute problem when dealing with large gene families, such as the superfamily encoding cytochrome P450 enzymes in higher plants."

"We propose here a new, simple, medium-throughput methodology to screen for potential substrates of orphan P450 mono-oxygenases. The same technique can also be applied to screening for inhibitors of the oxygenases involved in the biosynthesis of compounds essential for plant development, such as growth regulators. The method is based on a commercially available microplate system, which...

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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2007-10-09)

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