High-content screening for quantitative cell biology

MM Usaj, EB Styles, AJ Verster, H Friesen, C Boone… - Trends in cell …, 2016 - cell.com
High-content screening (HCS), which combines automated fluorescence microscopy with
quantitative image analysis, allows the acquisition of unbiased multiparametric data at the …

Increasing the content of high-content screening: an overview

S Singh, AE Carpenter… - Journal of biomolecular …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Target-based high-throughput screening (HTS) has recently been critiqued for its relatively
poor yield compared to phenotypic screening approaches. One type of phenotypic …

DropletMicroarray: facile formation of arrays of microdroplets and hydrogel micropads for cell screening applications

E Ueda, FL Geyer, V Nedashkivska, PA Levkin - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We describe a one-step method for creating thousands of isolated pico-to microliter-sized
droplets with defined geometry and volume. Arrays of droplets are instantly formed as liquid …

Targeting the deregulated spliceosome core machinery in cancer cells triggers mTOR blockade and autophagy

V Quidville, S Alsafadi, A Goubar, F Commo, V Scott… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
The spliceosome is a large ribonucleoprotein complex that guides pre-mRNA splicing in
eukaryotic cells. Here, we determine whether the spliceosome could constitute an attractive …

RNAi screening: new approaches, understandings, and organisms

SE Mohr, N Perrimon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
RNA interference (RNAi) leads to sequence‐specific knockdown of gene function. The
approach can be used in large‐scale screens to interrogate function in various model …

Identification of potential drug targets for tuberous sclerosis complex by synthetic screens combining CRISPR-based knockouts with RNAi

BE Housden, AJ Valvezan, C Kelley, R Sopko, Y Hu… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
The tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) family of tumor suppressors, TSC1 and TSC2,
function together in an evolutionarily conserved protein complex that is a point of …

SEACing the GAP that nEGOCiates TORC1 activation: evolutionary conservation of Rag GTPase regulation

N Panchaud, MP Péli-Gulli, C De Virgilio - Cell cycle, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) regulates eukaryotic cell growth in response to
a variety of input signals. In S. cerevisiae, amino acids activate TORC1 through the Rag …

TOR is required for the retrograde regulation of synaptic homeostasis at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction

J Penney, K Tsurudome, EH Liao, F Elazzouzi… - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Homeostatic mechanisms operate to stabilize synaptic function; however, we know little
about how they are regulated. Exploiting Drosophila genetics, we have uncovered a critical …

WNK kinases in development and disease

AR Rodan, A Jenny - Current topics in developmental biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract WNK (With-No-Lysine (K)) kinases are serine–threonine kinases characterized by
an atypical placement of a catalytic lysine within the kinase domain. Mutations in human …

Spatial activation of TORC1 is regulated by Hedgehog and E2F1 signaling in the Drosophila eye

W Kim, YG Jang, J Yang, J Chung - Developmental cell, 2017 - cell.com
Target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) regulates cell growth in response to nutrients and
growth factors. Although TORC1 signaling has been thoroughly studied at the cellular level …