FRESCA

FRET-based receptor screening assays

 Coordinatore JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET WUERZBURG 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Germany [DE]
 Totale costo 149˙345 €
 EC contributo 149˙345 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2012-PoC
 Funding Scheme CSA-SA(POC)
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-01-01   -   2014-12-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET WUERZBURG

 Organization address address: SANDERRING 2
city: WUERZBURG
postcode: 97070

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Christian
Cognome: Gloggengießer
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 931 31 82294
Fax: +49 931 31 87180

DE (WUERZBURG) hostInstitution 149˙345.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This project intends to prepare the commercialization of a new, patent-protected, generic technology to identify and characterize potential drugs acting at G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs represent prime targets for therapeutic drugs, variously estimated at 25-50% of all therapeutic targets, including multi-billion € drugs for major diseases, such as beta-blockers or antihistamines. However, of the hundreds of GPCRs, only 82 are currently used as therapeutic targets, and many still lack the identification of their endogenous ligands, indicating the vast potential of these receptors for further drug development. The project is based on results of the ERC-AdG “TOPAS” (ID: 232944), where we have developed sensors for receptor activation and signaling based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). In particular, we have developed new sensors that contain a GPCR and two fluorophores, capable of directly reporting receptor activation. The University of Würzburg has obtained broad patent rights for such sensors. Such FRET-based receptor screening assays (FRESCA) have the potential to discover new, innovative GPCR drugs. We intend to explore the usability and scalability of FRESCA for drug screening purposes in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. We will validate FRESCA in comparison to current standards, and under high-throughput screening conditions. We expect that FRESCA can replace standard radioligand binding assays as the first line of drug screening. FRESCA further show the potential to define the properties and effects of drug candidates at GPCRs, by measuring directly the activation step (conformational change) of GPCRs rather than the many different downstream steps that are activated by GPCRs. This indicates the broad applicability of FRESCA as “all-in-one” assays for GPCRs and their commercial potential in biomedical and in drug research. We intend to establish in this project the basis for a FRESCA-based start-up biotech company.'

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