Journal: iScience
Article Title: Contrastive learning of dynamic processing body formation reveals undefined mechanisms of approved compounds
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.114866
Figure Lengend Snippet: Overview of PB-scope: an unsupervised deep learning-based framework for large-scale phenotypic screening on P-bodies (A) HCT116 cells stably expressing DDX6-GFP were plated in 96-well plates, treated with 280 compounds at 10 μM concentrations, and subjected to high-content imaging using the CQ1 confocal quantitative imaging system. (B) The analyzed images consist of four channels: (1) bright-field image for cellular morphology, (2) mitochondrial network, (3) processing body, and (4) nucleus. Merged composite demonstrates spatial relationships between these subcellular compartments. Scale bar, 10 μm. (C) Mitochondrial channels were processed through Cellpose 3.0 to generate a curated dataset containing over 400,000 high-quality single-cell images. (D) A contrastive clustering framework was implemented for unsupervised feature extraction, followed by UMAP dimensionality reduction to identify compounds with analogous mechanism-of-action (MOA) profiles through cluster localization analysis. (E) Quantitative analysis of P-body formation followed by drug treatment. (F) Mechanistic evaluation of lead compounds via imaging analysis.
Article Snippet: As primary antibodies, we used DDX6 rabbit polyclonal antibody (Proteintech, 14632-1-AP) and EDC4 mouse monoclonal antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, sc-376382).
Techniques: Stable Transfection, Expressing, Imaging, Single Cell, Extraction