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.

External ID: RMI-FANCM-MM2

Protocol: FP HTS. Screening took place at the University of Wisconsin Small Molecule Screening and Synthesis Facility. A master mix of RMI core complex and F-MM2 (30 microL per well) was plated in black 384 shallow well plates (ThermoFisher, Waltham, MA), using a BioTek "MicroFlo Select" reagent dispenser. Compounds were added using a Beckman FX liquid handler; 0.33 microL of 10 mM stock was added for a final compound concentration of 33 microM. MM2 and cMM2 were each added to 4 wells of master mix per plate to a final concentration of 10 muM to serve as controls. Following compound addition, plates were covered, centrifuged briefly, and incubated for 20 minutes at room temperature. FP measurements were taking using a Tecan "Safire 2" microplate reader. Instrument settings were as follows: top read, EX 470, EM 525/20, G-factor 0.89947. A suitable gain was calculated from the first plate of each day. Z' scores for were calculated for each plate; plates with Z' scores <0.5 were rerun prior to analysis.

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External ID: WaveGuideAssay:441

Protocol: For initial screening, TetON human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293) expressing GluA2 and stargazin, gamma-2, were plated in 384-well BD purecoat amine-coated plates at 16k cells/well. Cells were induced with 8 ug/mL doxycycline in the presence of 30 uM NBQX and incubated O/N at 37deg in 5% CO2. They were washed with Hank's Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS) containing 20 mM HEPES, pH 7.4 and FLIPR VSD dye solution was added and incubated on the cells at room temperature for 45 minutes. The cell plate was loaded into the Hamamatsu Functional Drug Screening System 6000 (FDSS), 10 seconds of background were collected before addition of compound at 30 uM final concentration. Data collection continued at 1Hz sampling and experimentally determined EC50 glutamate stimulus was added at 300 seconds. Controls of 1 mM glutamate (maximal effect) and NBQX (antagonist) were used to calculate a Z' score per plate.

Data were processed using the Vanderbilt screening analysis platform, WaveGuide. Data were normalized by dividing the raw fluorescence for all time points by an average of the baseline fluorescence. For each well, 4 values were calculated as follows:

1. CMPDslope was the slope of the normalized value within the timeframe 11-18 seconds,
2. CMPDmaxmin was the difference in maximal and minimal normalized value within the timeframe 8-100 seconds
3. GLUslope was the slope of the normalized value within the timeframe 310-315 seconds, and
4. GLUmaxmin was the difference in maximal and minimal normalized value within the timeframe 301-380 seconds.

Compounds were marked as hits where any of the above calculated results for a compound differed by at least three standard deviations from the mean for that calculation across all compounds in the plate.

Compounds denoted as 'hits' were given the score of '100' and outcome of 'active'. All other compounds were denoted as 'inactive' and given a score of '0'.

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