This study evaluated the potential use of senescence-inducing small molecules in the treatment of melanoma. We screened commercially available small-molecule libraries with high-throughput screening and high-content screening image-based technology. Our findings showed an initial hit with the embedded -arylpiperidine-3-carboxamide scaffold-induced senescence-like phenotypic changes in human melanoma A375 cells without serious cytotoxicity against normal cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurrent research suggests therapy-induced senescence (TIS) of cancer cells characterized by distinct morphological and biochemical phenotypic changes represent a novel functional target that may enhance the effectiveness of cancer therapy. In order to identify novel small-molecule inducers of cellular senescence and determine the potential to be used for the treatment of melanoma, a new method of high-throughput screening (HTS) and high-contents screening (HCS) based on the detection of morphological changes was designed. This image-based and whole cell-based technology was applied to screen and select a novel class of antiproliferative agents on cancer cells, 4H-chromeno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-one derivatives, which induced senescence-like phenotypic changes in human melanoma A375 cells without serious cytotoxicity against normal cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMore than 100 copper/zinc superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) genetic mutations have been characterized. These mutations lead to the death of motor neurons in ALS. In its native form, the SOD1 protein is expressed as a homodimer in the cytosol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdvances in automated imaging microscopy allow fast acquisitions of multidimensional biological samples. Those microscopes open new possibilities for analyzing subcellular structures and spatial cellular arrangements. In this article, the authors describe a 3D image analysis framework adapted to medium-throughput screening.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe use of Cyan Fluorescent Proteins, with a distinctive lifetime signature, opens up new alternatives to track and semi-quantify the relative expression of proteins in vivo using a single excitation source and emission channel.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNi-nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) functionalized CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) were exploited as a site-specific labeling agent of histidine-tagged biomolecules in live cells; the QDs were found to be water-soluble, aggregation free and stable for several months.
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February 2004
Eotaxin selectively binds CC chemokine receptor (CCR) 3, whereas monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-3 binds CCR1, CCR2, and CCR3. To identify the functional determinants of the chemokines, we generated four reciprocal chimeric chemokines-M10E9, M22E21, E8M11, and E20M23-by shuffling the N-terminus and N-loop of eotaxin and MCP-3. M22E21 and E8M11, which shared the N-loop from MCP-3, bound to monocytes with high affinity, and activated monocytes.
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