A high-throughput approach for identification of novel general anesthetics.

Anesthetic development has been a largely empirical process. Recently, we described a GABAergic mimetic model system for anesthetic binding, based on apoferritin and an environment-sensitive fluorescent probe. Here, a competition assay based on 1-aminoanthracene and apoferritin has been taken to a h...

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Main Authors: Wendy A Lea, Jin Xi, Ajit Jadhav, Louis Lu, Christopher P Austin, Anton Simeonov, Roderic G Eckenhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2746312?pdf=render