Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  Wnt-Luc Reporter Assay
Description:  Human embryonic kidney 293 cells (obtained from American Type Culture Collection, ATCC, Manassas, Va.) are cultured in DMEM medium (Gibco/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) supplemented with 10% FBS (Gibco/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.), 50 unit/mL penicillin and 50 μg/mL of streptomycin (Gibco/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) at 37° C. with 5% CO2 in air atmosphere. 293 cells in a 10 cm dish are co-transfected with 8 μg of STF-reporter plasmid containing a luciferase gene driven by Wnt-responsive elements and 2 μg of pcDNA3.1-Neo (Gibco/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) with 30 μL of FuGENE6 (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Ind.) following the manufacturer's protocol. Stable cell lines (293 Wnt-Luc) were selected with 400 μg/mL of G418 (Gibco/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.). The 293 Wnt-Luc cells and L-cell Wnt3a cells (obtained from American Type Culture Collection, ATCC, Manassas, Va.) are trypsinized and co-cultured into a 384-well plate with DMEM medium supplemented with 2% FBS, and treated with different concentrations of a compound of the invention. After 24 hours, the firefly luciferase activities are assayed with the Bright-Glo Luciferase Assay System (Promega, Madison, Wis.). The IC50 is measured when the effect of the compound reduces the luminescence signal by 50%.
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