External ID: TELO_02

Protocol: HCT116 colorectal cancer cells are infected with Ad-hTR-mut and cytotoxicity is assessed 5-days post infection, measured by standard MTT assay. Ad-hTR-mut constructed using the Adeasy system (Agilent) and purified and quantified using Adeno-x purification and rapid titre kits (Clontech). Cells are seeded at 10000 cells per well and infected with 500pfu/cell in 96 well plates (Costar) then incubated for 48h prior to addition of compounds. Compounds were screened at 10uM in duplicate 2 days post-infection and MTT assay performed 3 days later at 5 days post-infection. A negative control adenovirus was included on every plate as a control for non-specific viral toxicity and all wells were expressed relative to untreated cells. Absorbance at 570nm was determined using a Molecular Devices spectramax plus instrument and analysed using SoftMax Pro software. Hits were taken to be compounds giving greater than 2.5-fold increase in absorbance indicating increased cell survival.

Comment: Target cell viability at time of assay was 30-50% after infection with this stock of Ad-hTR-mut. Compounds giving 2.5-fold increase in survival relative to this condition were taken to be hits.