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I am screening compounds against my synthetase enzyme with thermal shift assay. I have encountered a drug which is showing a shift of around 20degrees from the Tm of my protein. I am using 2X Sypro Orange dye. The problem is that the compound is a bright orange colored compound which might be interfering with Sypro orange detection and thereby showing a shift in Tm of protein. To rule out this problem I tried to perform TSA of the same compound with different proteins. But, in other proteins, there is a fluorescence of drug around the same Tm of the shift. Although, after adding the drug, the other enzymes Tm peaks are also not visible. and the fluorescence with the drug is also pretty low.

I also need to find IC50 of this compound to know whether it is inhibiting my protein of interest or not. We use Malachite green assay (colorimetric assay) and AMP Glo Assay(based on luminescence) for IC50 determination. Kindly help since I cannot find any gradient for IC50 determination.

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