A high throughput screening assay for inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 pseudotyped particle entry

  1. Miao Xu
  2. Manisha Pradhan
  3. Kirill Gorshkov
  4. Jennifer D. Petersen
  5. Min Shen
  6. Hui Guo
  7. Wei Zhu
  8. Carleen Klumpp-Thomas
  9. Sam Michael
  10. Misha Itkin
  11. Zina Itkin
  12. Marco R. Straus
  13. Joshua Zimmerberg
  14. Wei Zheng
  15. Gary R. Whittaker
  16. Catherine Z. Chen

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.slasd.2021.12.005
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsField Sample Permit: SARS-CoV-2 cytopathic effect (CPE) assay: SARS-CoV-2 CPE assay was conducted at a contract research organization Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, AL) 2.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Mouse-anti-firefly luciferase antibody was purchased from Santa Cruz (sc-74548).
    Mouse-anti-firefly luciferase antibody
    suggested: None
    Mouse-anti-firefly luciferase
    suggested: None
    Permeabilization/blocking solution was removed, 1:1000 primary mouse-anti-luciferase antibody (Santa Cruz) was added, and incubated overnight at 4 °C.
    mouse-anti-luciferase
    suggested: None
    Then, grids were transferred across two drops of blocking solution for 10 minutes before incubation of with 10 nm gold-conjugated goat-α-rabbit secondary antibody diluted 1:20 in blocking solution for 30 min.
    secondary
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    7E6 HEK293T cells were seeded in a 10 cm2 dish in 16 ml culture medium (DMEM, 10% FBS) without antibiotics that were incubated for 24 hr at 37 °C with 5% CO2.
    HEK293T
    suggested: None
    The SARS-CoV-2-S PP entry assay and ATP content cytotoxicity assay in HEK293-ACE2 cells, were used to screen the NPC and MIPE libraries in parallel.
    HEK293-ACE2
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains
    SentencesResources
    Materials: Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM) (11965092), OPTI-MEM reduced serum medium (11058021), Pen/Strep (15140), TrypLE (12604013), PBS -/-(w/o Ca2+ or Mg2+) (10010049), Lipofectamine 3000 Transfection Reagent (L3000015), HCS Cell Mask Green (H32714), goat anti-mouse AlexaFluor 647 (A28175), and Hoechst 33342 (H3570) were purchased from ThermoFisher.
    PBS -/-
    suggested: None
    Recombinant DNA
    SentencesResources
    The DNA solution was prepared by diluting 8 μg of pTG-Luc, 6 μg of pCMV-MLVgag-pol, and 6 μg of pcDNA-SARS-CoV-2-S(ΔC19) in 1 ml of Opti-MEM medium (ThermoFisher).
    pTG-Luc
    suggested: None
    pCMV-MLVgag-pol
    suggested: None
    pcDNA-SARS-CoV-2-S(ΔC19
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Average values, standard deviations, and data counts were generated using pivot tables in Microsoft Excel and data was plotted in Graphpad Prism.
    Microsoft Excel
    suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)
    Graphpad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)
    Half-maximal efficacious concentration (EC50) and half-maximal cytotoxicity concentration (CC50) of compounds were calculated using Prism software (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA).
    Prism
    suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)
    GraphPad
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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