| Assay Method Information | |
| | Wnt activity assay |
| Description: | Compounds that enhance the Wnt activity, or Activators, were assayed as follows. Reporter cell lines were generated by stably transducing cells of cancer cell lines (e.g., colon cancer) with a lentiviral construct that include a wnt-responsive promoter driving expression of the firefly luciferase gene.Lentiviral constructs were made in which the SP5 promoter, a promoter having eight TCF/LEF binding sites derived from the SP5 promoter, is linked upstream of the firefly luciferase gene. The lentiviral constructs can also include a hygromycin resistance gene as a selectable marker. The SP5 promoter construct were used to transduce SW480 cells, a colon cancer cell line having a mutated APC gene that generates a truncated APC protein, leading to de-regulated accumulation of β-catenin.Cultured SW480 cells bearing a reporter construct can be distributed at approximately 10,000 cells per well into 384 or 96 well multiwell plates. Compounds from a small molecule compound library can then be added to the wells in half-log dilutions using three or ten micromolar top concentration. A series of control wells for each cell type received only buffer and compound solvent DMSO. Twenty-four hours after the addition of compound, reporter activity for luciferase can be assayed, for example, by addition of the BrightGlo luminescence reagent (Promega) and the Victor3 plate reader (Perkin Elmer). Readings are normalized to DMSO only treated cells, and any activities above DMSO are considered activation. Compounds are considered activators if reporter activities are 2× fold or greater than DMSO. EC50 is the concentration at half maximal activation. |
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