CHEMBL5735274

Wnt activity assay: 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, was linked upstream of the firefly luciferase gene. The lentiviral constructs included a hygromycin resistance gene as a selectable marker. The SP5 promoter construct was 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. A control cell line was generated using another lentiviral construct containing the luciferase gene under the control of the SV40 promoter which does not require β-catenin for activation.Cultured SW480 cells bearing a reporter construct were distributed at approximately 10,000 cells per well into 384 well multiwell plates. Compounds were then added to the wells in half-log dilutions using a three micromolar top concentration. A series of control wells for each cell type received only buffer and compound solvent. Twenty-four hours after the addition of compound, reporter activity for luciferases was assayed, for example, by addition of the BrightGlo luminescence reagent (Promega) and the Victor3 plate reader (Perkin Elmer). Readings were normalized to DMSO only treated cells, and normalized activities were then used for the IC50 calculations.