Development of a High-Throughput Cytometric Screen to Identify Anti-Wolbachia Compounds: The Power of Public–Private Partnership

Rachel H. Clare; Roger Clark; Catherine Bardelle; Paul Harper; Matthew Collier; Kelly L. Johnston; Helen Plant; Darren Plant; Eileen McCall; Barton E. Slatko; Lindsey Cantin; Bo Wu; Louise Ford; David Murray; Kirsty Rich; Mark Wigglesworth; Mark J. Taylor; Stephen A. Ward

doi:10.1177/2472555219838341

Development of a High-Throughput Cytometric Screen to Identify Anti-Wolbachia Compounds: The Power of Public–Private Partnership

Rachel H. Clare
, Roger Clark
, Catherine Bardelle
, Paul Harper
, Matthew Collier
, Kelly L. Johnston
, Helen Plant
, Darren Plant
, Eileen McCall
, Barton E. Slatko
, Lindsey Cantin
, Bo Wu
, Louise Ford
, David Murray
, Kirsty Rich
, Mark Wigglesworth
, Mark J. Taylor
, Stephen A. Ward^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Biology

LSTM - Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
AstraZeneca
New England Biolabs

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Abstract

The Anti-Wolbachia (A·WOL) consortium at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has partnered with the Global High-Throughput Screening (HTS) Centre at AstraZeneca to create the first anthelmintic HTS for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The A·WOL consortium aims to identify novel macrofilaricidal drugs targeting the essential bacterial symbiont (Wolbachia) of the filarial nematodes causing onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. Working in collaboration, we have validated a robust high-throughput assay capable of identifying compounds that selectively kill Wolbachia over the host insect cell. We describe the development and validation process of this complex, phenotypic high-throughput assay and provide an overview of the primary outputs from screening the AstraZeneca library of 1.3 million compounds.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	537-547
Number of pages	11
Journal	SLAS Discovery
Volume	24
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2472555219838341
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2019

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Keywords

acumen
high-throughput screening
lymphatic filariasis
neglected tropical diseases
onchocerciasis
phenotypic screening
Wolbachia

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Clare, R. H., Clark, R., Bardelle, C., Harper, P., Collier, M., Johnston, K. L., Plant, H., Plant, D., McCall, E., Slatko, B. E., Cantin, L., Wu, B., Ford, L., Murray, D., Rich, K., Wigglesworth, M., Taylor, M. J., & Ward, S. A. (2019). Development of a High-Throughput Cytometric Screen to Identify Anti-Wolbachia Compounds: The Power of Public–Private Partnership. SLAS Discovery, 24(5), 537-547. https://doi.org/10.1177/2472555219838341

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Development of a High-Throughput Cytometric Screen to Identify Anti-Wolbachia Compounds: The Power of Public–Private Partnership

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