Six-fold swelling expansion microscopy assisted cell painting for high-content phenotypic screening
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Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and TEDA Applied Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

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    Imaging-based phenotypic screening uses cellular phenotypes to describe the drug performance, which generally focuses on single cellular feature, lacking of a comprehensive characterization. Here, we propose a high content phenotypic screening method based on expansion microscopy (ExM) assisted cell painting, which enables multi-channel imaging with approximately 50 nm resolution. As a demonstration, we applied this method to a phenotypic screening involving five drugs. The morphological attributes of three subcellular structures were summarized to consist a “fingerprint” describing the drug effect. The proposed method can provide comprehensive and detailed clues for drug evaluation, enriching the content of phenotypic screening.

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Junfang XIE, Yipeng DONG, Jin WANG, Zhichao DENG, Jianguo TIAN, Qing YE. Six-fold swelling expansion microscopy assisted cell painting for high-content phenotypic screening[J]. Optoelectronics Letters,2026,(2):111-117

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  • Received:August 09,2024
  • Revised:June 29,2025
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  • Online: February 26,2026
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