A phenotypic screening platform to identify small molecule modulators of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii growth, motility and photosynthesis

作者:Alfred Simon E; Surendra Anuradha; Le Chris; Lin Ken; Mok Alexander; Wallace Iain M; Proctor Michael; Urbanus Malene L; Giaever Guri; Nislow Corey*
来源:Genome Biology, 2012, 13(11): R105.
DOI:10.1186/gb-2012-13-11-r105

摘要

Chemical biology, the interfacial discipline of using small molecules as probes to investigate biology, is a powerful approach of developing specific, rapidly acting tools that can be applied across organisms. The single-celled alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is an excellent model system because of its photosynthetic ability, cilia-related motility and simple genetics. We report the results of an automated fitness screen of 5,445 small molecules and subsequent assays on motility/phototaxis and photosynthesis. Cheminformatic analysis revealed active core structures and was used to construct a naive Bayes model that successfully predicts algal bioactive compounds.

  • 出版日期2012

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