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ArticleCell systems2017

Systematic Quantification of Population Cell Death Kinetics in Mammalian Cells.

Giovanni C Forcina, Megan Conlon, Alex Wells, Jennifer Yinuo Cao, Scott J Dixon

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Article in Cell systems, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Giovanni C ForcinaDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Room 104, 337 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Megan ConlonDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Room 104, 337 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Alex WellsDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Room 104, 337 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Jennifer Yinuo CaoDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Room 104, 337 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Scott J DixonDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Room 104, 337 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: sjdixon@stanford.edu.

Funding

Targeting Tumor Cell Iron Addiction to Achieve Tumor-Selective Cell DeathR00CA166517 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DIXON, SCOTT · 2014 to 2016
$708k
NCI NIH HHS R00 CA166517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytotoxic compounds are important drugs and research tools. Here, we introduce a method, scalable time-lapse analysis of cell death kinetics (STACK), to quantify the kinetics of compound-induced cell death in mammalian cells at the population level. STACK uses live and dead cell markers, high-throughput time-lapse imaging, and mathematical modeling to determine the kinetics of population cell death over time. We used STACK to profile the effects of over 1,800 bioactive compounds on cell death in two human cancer cell lines, resulting in a large and freely available dataset. 79 potent lethal compounds common to both cell lines caused cell death with widely divergent kinetics. 13 compounds triggered cell death within hours, including the metallophore zinc pyrithione. Mechanistic studies demonstrated that this rapid onset lethal phenotype was caused in human cancer cells by metabolic disruption and ATP depletion. These results provide the first comprehensive survey of cell death kinetics and analysis of rapid-onset lethal compounds.

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A549 CellsAnimalsBiomarkersCell DeathCell Line, TumorHumansKineticsMammalsBiomarkersapoptosiscancercell deathferroptosisglycolysisimagingnon-apoptotic cell deathtime-lapsezinc

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PMID28601558
PMCPMC5509363

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