We demonstrate the generation and validation of a stable CHO-hHCN2 cell line used as a cellular tool in the successful development of hHCN2 automated electrophysiology screening assays.
Current cardiac safety testing regimes have successfully prevented new drugs coming to market with unknown proarrhythmic risk. However, they are expensive and time-consuming, and an over-reliance on hERG liability as a marker for proarrhythmia has led to exclusion of useful chemical scaffolds from further drug development. In addition, the focus on hERG ignores the risk posed by potential drug interactions with multiple cardiac ion channels (MICE) that can alter cardiac action potentials.
We demonstrate the generation and validation of a stable CHO-hHCN2 cell line used as a cellular tool in the successful development of hHCN2 automated electrophysiology screening assays.
We have developed a robust high-throughput automated electrophysiology assay using a monoclonal CHO-hNav1.9 cellular reagent suitable for fully supporting a Nav1.9 discovery program.