A multiplexed high-content screening approach using the chromobody technology to identify cell cycle modulators in living cells.
J. Biomol. Screen. 21, 965-977 (2016)
Many screening hits show relatively poor quality regarding later efficacy and safety. Therefore, small-molecule screening efforts shift toward high-content analysis providing more detailed information. Here, we describe a novel screening approach to identify cell cycle modulators with low toxicity by combining the Cell Cycle Chromobody (CCC) technology with the CytoTox-Glo (CTG) cytotoxicity assay. The CCC technology employs intracellularly functional single-domain antibodies coupled to a fluorescent protein (chromobodies) to visualize the cell cycle-dependent redistribution of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in living cells. This image-based cell cycle analysis was combined with determination of dead-cell protease activity in cell culture supernatants by the CTG assay. We adopted this multiplex approach to high-throughput format and screened 960 Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs. By this, we identified nontoxic compounds, which modulate different cell cycle stages, and validated selected hits in diverse cell lines stably expressing CCC. Additionally, we independently validated these hits by flow cytometry as the current state-of-the-art format for cell cycle analysis. This study demonstrates that CCC imaging is a versatile high-content screening approach to identify cell cycle modulators, which can be multiplexed with cytotoxicity assays for early elimination of toxic compounds during screening.
Impact Factor
Scopus SNIP
Web of Science
Times Cited
Scopus
Cited By
Altmetric
Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Thesis type
Editors
Keywords
Cell Cycle ; Chromobodies ; High-content Screening ; Multiplexing ; Phenotypic Drug Discovery; Cancer; Dynamics; Protein; Live; Proliferation; Nanobodies; Molecules; Division; Biology; Pcna
Keywords plus
Language
english
Publication Year
2016
Prepublished in Year
HGF-reported in Year
2016
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1087-0571
e-ISSN
1552-454X
ISBN
Book Volume Title
Conference Title
Conference Date
Conference Location
Proceedings Title
Quellenangaben
Volume: 21,
Issue: 9,
Pages: 965-977
Article Number: ,
Supplement: ,
Series
Publisher
Sage
Publishing Place
Thousand Oaks
Day of Oral Examination
0000-00-00
Advisor
Referee
Examiner
Topic
University
University place
Faculty
Publication date
0000-00-00
Application date
0000-00-00
Patent owner
Further owners
Application country
Patent priority
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
POF-Topic(s)
30203 - Molecular Targets and Therapies
Research field(s)
Enabling and Novel Technologies
PSP Element(s)
G-505293-001
Grants
Copyright
Erfassungsdatum
2016-04-15