Microplate Alamar Blue Assay (MABA) and Low Oxygen Recovery Assay (LORA) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Throughput in tuberculosis drug discovery was extremely limited prior to the introduction of microplate-based susceptibility assays. The 96-well Microplate Alamar Blue Assay (MABA) allows for the quantitative determination of drug susceptibility against any strain of replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis to be completed within a week at minimal cost. The Low-Oxygen Recovery Assay (LORA) uses a recombinant M. tuberculosis expressing luciferase and provides results of drug activity against non-replicating M. tuberculosis surviving under hypoxic conditions. Determining activity against non-replicating M. tuberculosis is an important factor when developing drug candidates against M. tuberculosis. Here we describe a step-by-step procedure for both the MABA and LORA.

Citation

Sanghyun Cho, Hyung Sup Lee, Scott Franzblau. Microplate Alamar Blue Assay (MABA) and Low Oxygen Recovery Assay (LORA) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2015;1285:281-92

PMID: 25779323

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