title: A cell spot microarray method for production of high density siRNA transfection microarrays.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  High-throughput RNAi screening is widely applied in biological research, but remains expensive, infrastructure-intensive and conversion of many assays to HTS applications in microplate format is not feasible.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Here, we describe the optimization of a miniaturized cell spot microarray (CSMA) method, which facilitates utilization of the transfection microarray technique for disparate RNAi analyses. To promote rapid adaptation of the method, the concept has been tested with a panel of 92 adherent cell types, including primary human cells. We demonstrate the method in the systematic screening of 492 GPCR coding genes for impact on growth and survival of cultured human prostate cancer cells.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The CSMA method facilitates reproducible preparation of highly parallel cell microarrays for large-scale gene knockdown analyses. This will be critical towards expanding the cell based functional genetic screens to include more RNAi constructs, allow combinatorial RNAi analyses, multi-parametric phenotypic readouts or comparative analysis of many different cell types.
authors: Medical Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 20521 Turku, Finland. juha.k.rantala@vtt.fi
authors: Juha K
authors: JK
authors: Rantala
authors: Rami
authors: R
authors: Mäkelä
authors: Anna-Riina
authors: AR
authors: Aaltola
authors: Petra
authors: P
authors: Laasola
authors: John-Patrick
authors: JP
authors: Mpindi
authors: Matthias
authors: M
authors: Nees
authors: Petri
authors: P
authors: Saviranta
authors: Olli
authors: O
authors: Kallioniemi
mesh_terms: D002470:Cell Survival; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D020868:Gene Silencing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D046228:Microarray Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000235:genetics*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D034741:RNA, Small Interfering