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.

Comment:

External ID: ST2_IL33_Inhibitors_Primary_Screening_77700

Protocol: High-throughput screening was performed at Indiana University screening facility (Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN).

In summary, a mixture of ST2 and IL-33 was prepared by adding 0.30 microL of 14.1 microM recombinant human ST2-Fc Chimera and 0.30 microL of 55.25 biotinylated recombinant human IL-33 to 1.4 mL of assay buffer. In the HTS, each well of a 384-well Proxi-plate was first blocked by 100 microL of assay buffer for 1 h at room temperature. After removing the blocking buffer, 20 microL of ST2/IL-33 mixture was pipetted into each well and incubated at room temperature for 1 h followed by addition of compounds at 17 microM (0.8 microL) to each well and incubated at room temperature for 1 h. Ten microliters of 60 microg/mL anti-6xHis-conjugated AlphaLISA acceptor beads were added to each well and incubated at room temperature for 1 h before addition of 10 microL of 60 microg/mL of streptavidin-labeled AlphaLISA donor beads for incubation at room temperature for 30 min. Incubation of acceptor and receptor beads was conducted in darkness. The well with 3 nM ST2 alone was used as a negative control, whereas the ST2/IL-33 mixture with a human ST2 antibody added at 0.45 ng/microL was used as the positive control. Plates were read using the Envision Plate Reader. The buffer used in the assay contains 14.37 mL PBS, 30 microL Tween 20, and 600 microL of 5% bovine serum albumin in PBS.

Comment: PubChem active indicates >= 30% inhibition of ST2/IL-33 at 17 uM of the compound. Inconclusive: >=10% and < 30% inhibition.

External ID: KUHTS-Muma KU-CaM-Htt INH-01

Protocol: 1; Dispense 45 nl compounds (10 mM stocks) using ECHO 555 to Alpha 384 well assay plates. Dispense 45 nl DMSO to control columns 1 and 2 of 384 well plates.
2; Incubate 5 ul of 6XHis-mHTT (Final, 13 nM) with the compounds for 40 mins at room temperature in buffer containing 10 mM Tris.HCl pH 7.4, 1 mM calcium chloride, 150 mM sodium chloride, 0.1% BSA and 20% glycerol.
3; Dispense 5 ul of 6XGST-CaM (Final 13 nM) in buffer A.
4; Incubation; 1 hour (dark at 25C)
5; Dispense 20 ul of Nickel chelate acceptor beads (Final, 20 ugs/ml) and Glutathione donor beads (Final, 30 ugs/ml). Incubate for 2h, room temperature.
6; Detector: Perkin Elmer Enspire, Alphascreen Module (Excitation 680nm/Emission 570nm).

NOTES (numbers refer to Sequence numbers above)
1. Alphascreen bead incubations were performed in green light, TiterTek setting 400rpm.
2. All incubation and addition steps were followed by mixing and centrifugation at 400g,1 min.
3. The percent inhibition for each compound was calculated as follows:
100- [100 *((Test Compound-Median Low Control) / (Median High Control - Median Low Control))]

Where:
Test_Compound is defined as wells containing His mHTT + GST CaM in the presence of test compound

High_Control is defined as wells containing His mHTT + GST CaM and DMSO.

Low_Control is defined as wells containing His mHTT and DMSO.

Comment: All percent inhibition data reported were normalized to high and low controls on a per-plate basis. The results of primary screening data include compounds contributing to assay signal interference, interference with tags binding to Alpha beads, chelators, process related artifacts etc.. The actives were defined as compounds that inhibited Alphascreen reads to greater than 50%.

External ID: SBCCG-A462-APJ-Agonist-DryPowder-Assay

Protocol: A. Brief Description of the Assay:
The purpose of this assay is to detect agonists that cause the activation the Angiotensin II receptor-like 1 (Apelin receptor) in the CHO-K1 AGTRL-1 beta-Arrestin Cell Line in 1536-well plate format in uHTS mode.

B. Materials:
Angiotensin II receptor-like 1 (AGTRL-1) Cell Line (DiscoveRx, Cat# 93-0250C2)
F12 nutrient mix HAMs (Invitrogen, Cat# 11765)
Fetal Bovine Serum, heat-inactivated (Hyclone, Cat# SH30396)
100X Penicillin/Streptomycin Solution (Invitrogen, Cat#15140-122)
Hygromycin B (Roche, Cat# 10843555001)
Geneticin (MPBiomedicals, Cat# 1672548)
Trypsin-EDTA 0.25% (Invitrogen, Cat# 25200-056)
Cell Dissociation Buffer (Invitrogen, Cat# 13151)
DPBS (Hyclone, Cat# 30028.02)
T225 TC Flask (Nunc, Cat# 159934)
Cell strainer, 40 um (BD, Cat# 352340)
1536-well, white, solid-bottom, Kalypsys compatible, TC plate (Corning)
Apelin-13 (Sigma-Aldrich, Cat# A6469)
PathHunter Detection Reagents (DiscoveRx, Cat# 93-0001)
Galacton Star
Emerald 11
Cell Assay Buffer

D. Dose Response Procedures:
Day1 -Cell Seeding
1) Plate 1000 cells/well in 4 uL of assay media into columns 1-48 of a 1536-well assay plate, using straight tip dispense on a Kalypsys dispenser.
2) Centrifuge plates at 500 rpm for 1 minute on a Vspin centrifuge. Use Kalypsys metal lids.
3) Incubate overnight at 37 degrees, 100% relative humidity, 5% CO2 for 16-18 hours.
Day2 -Compound Addition
1) Centrifuge compound plates at 500 rpm for 1 minute on a Vspin centrifuge.
2) Using LabCyte Echo, transfer varying volumes from a 2 mM Echo qualified plate containing test compounds into assay plate Col. 5 - 48 to achieve the desired dose response concentrations and range. Backfill with DMSO to equalize final DMSO concentrations in all test wells. Transfer equal volume of DMSO to positive and negative control wells in Columns 1 - 4.
3) Immediately following compound/DMSO transfer via the Echo, using the Kalypsys Dispenser, transfer 2ul/well of Assay media to Col. 3-48 for the negative control and test compound wells.
4) Using the Kalypsys Dispenser, add 2ul/well of 30 nM Apelin-13 in assay media to Col. 1-2 for the positive control .
5) Centrifuge plates at 500 rpm for 1 minute on a Vspin centrifuge.
6) Incubate plates at 25 degrees in the dark for 90 minutes.
7) Following 90 minute incubation, deliver 3.0 uL of Detection Reagent solution to each assay plate (Columns 1 - 48) using a Kalypsys dispenser.
8) Centrifuge plates at 2000 rpm for 3 minute on a Vspin centrifuge.
9) Incubate plates for 60 minutes at 25 degrees in the dark.
10) Read plates using the Viewlux using a luminescence protocol.

E. Recipes:
Growth Media
F12 nutrient mix HAMs supplemented with 10% hi-FBS, 1X Penicillin/Streptomycin; selection reagents: 300ug/ml Hygromycin B, 800ug/ml Geneticin
Assay Media
Same as Growth Media without the selection reagents
Trypsin
Dilute 0.25% Trypsin/EDTA to 0.05% Trypsin/EDTA using DPBS
Positive Control
Growth Media with 30 nM Apelin-13
Detection Reagent
Use the following ratio to prepare the detection reagent:
Galacton Star : Emerald II : Assay Buffer = 1 : 5 : 19

Comment: Compounds with an EC50_Mean < 10 are considered to be active

Activity Scoring
Activity scoring rules were devised to take into consideration compound efficacy, its potential interference with the assay and the screening stage that the data was obtained. Details of the Scoring System will be published elsewhere. Briefly, the outline of the scoring system utilized for the assay is as follows:

1) First tier (0-40 range) is reserved for primary screening data and is not applicable in this assay.

2) Second tier (41-80 range) is reserved for dose-response confirmation data and is not applicable in this assay.

3) Third tier (81-100 range) is reserved for resynthesized true positives and their analogues.
a. Inactive compounds of the confirmatory stage are assigned a score value equal 81.
b. The score is linearly correlated with a compound potency and, in addition, provides a measure of the likelihood that the compound is not an artifact based on the available information.
c. The Hill coefficient is taken as a measure of compound behavior in the assay via an additional scaling factor QC:

QC = 2.6*[exp(-0.5*nH^2) - exp(-1.5*nH^2)]

This empirical factor prorates the likelihood of target-specific compound effect vs. its non-specific behavior in the assay. This factor is based on expectation that a compound with a single mode of action that achieved equilibrium in this assay demonstrates the Hill coefficient value of 1. Compounds deviating from that behavior are penalized proportionally to the degree of their deviation.
d. Summary equation that takes into account the items discussed above is

Score = 82 + 3*(pEC50 - 3)*QC,

where pEC50 is a negative log(10) of the EC50 value expressed in mole/L concentration units. This equation results in the Score values above 85 for compounds that demonstrate high potency and predictable behavior. Compounds that are inactive in the assay or whose concentration-dependent behavior are likely to be an artifact of that assay will generally have lower Score values.