“…There have been limited reports describing inhibitor screening using enzyme assays, and in many cases high concentrations of enzyme have been required to generate sufficient signal to background to make the assays robust. 8,16–19 Also, previous reports have used thermal shift assays (TSAs), 20 surface plasmon resonance (SPR), 20 DNA-encoded libraries (DELs) 21 and small-molecule microarrays (SMMs) 7 to identify and characterize monoPARP ligands; however, these techniques are either not quantitative (i.e., TSAs) or low-throughput (i.e., SPR), or require the development of expertise in complex chemistry (i.e., DELs and SMMs). Additionally, there has been a report of an AlphaScreen assay to identify inhibitors of the ADP-ribose binding macrodomains of PARP9, PARP14, and PARP15; however, this strategy was not shown to identify inhibitors of the catalytic activity of these proteins.…”