A High-throughput Quantitative Multiplex Kinase Assay for Monitoring Information Flow in Signaling Networks

To treat complex human diseases effectively, a systems-level approach is needed to understand the interplay of environmental cues, intracellular signals, and cellular behaviors that underlie disease states. This approach requires high-throughput, multiplex techniques that measure quantitative temporal variations of multiple protein activities in the intracellular signaling network. Here, we describe a single microtiter-based format that simultaneously quantifies protein kinase activities in the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway (Akt), nuclear factor-κB pathway (IKK), and three core mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways (ERK, JNK1, MK2). These parallel high-throughput assays are stringently linear, redundantly specific, reproducible, and sensitive compared to a of approach a of a of that to the of parallel in the intracellular signaling of the the of in the of human To treat complex human diseases effectively, a systems-level approach is needed to understand the interplay of environmental cues, intracellular signals, and cellular behaviors that underlie disease states. This approach requires high-throughput, multiplex techniques that measure quantitative temporal variations of multiple protein activities in the intracellular signaling network. Here, we describe a single microtiter-based format that simultaneously quantifies protein kinase activities in the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway (Akt), nuclear factor-κB pathway (IKK), and three core mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways (ERK, JNK1, MK2). 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