headquarters fremont california key people pyare khanna ph.d. president and ceo sailaja kuchibhatla sr. vp business development products biochemical and cell based assays website http www.discoverx.com discoverx develops commercializes and manufactures reagents and assay kits for the drug discovery market . their focus is on lucrative protein target classes such as g protein coupled receptors and kinases . the company is built around a proprietary technology called enzyme fragment complementation or efc which forms the basis of the assays that they design and market . in efc two galactosidase fragments are employed which are themselves inactive . one fragment ea has an inactivating deletion while the second fragment ed has a complementing fragment ; in solution where both ea and ed are present certain pairs of fragments combine spontaneously to form active complexes . some pairs of fragments interact only weakly and combine to produce enzyme activity only when forced into close proximity by virtue of their attachment to proteins which bind to each other . this property permits evaluation of intracellular protein interactions for use in high throughput screening of drug candidates for their effect on specific cellular pathways . the company offers a wide variety of cell lines that produce such fusion products . this article about a medical pharmaceutical or biotechnological corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title discoverx & oldid 739293194 categories medical company stubscompanies based in fremont californiaresearch support companiestechnology companies based in the san francisco bay areahidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 21 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view