Autonomous migration is essential for the function of immune cells such as neutrophils and plays an important role in numerous diseases. The ability to routinely measure or target it would offer a wealth of clinical applications. Video microscopy of live cells is ideal for migration analysis, but cannot be performed at sufficiently high-throughput (HT). Here we introduce ComplexEye, an array microscope with 16 independent aberration-corrected glass lenses spaced at the pitch of a 96-well plate to produce high-resolution movies of migrating cells. With the system, we enable HT migration analysis of immune cells in 96- and 384-well plates with very energy-efficient performance. We demonstrate that the system can measure multiple clinical samples simultaneously. Furthermore, we screen 1000 compounds and identify 17 modifiers of migration in human neutrophils in just 4 days, a task that requires 60-times longer with a conventional video microscope. ComplexEye thus opens the field of phenotypic HT migration screens and enables routine migration analysis for the clinical setting.
ComplexEye: a multi-lens array microscope for high-throughput embedded immune cell migration analysis
Zülal Cibir,Jacqueline Hassel,Justin Sonneck,Lennart Kowitz,Alexander Beer,Andreas Kraus,Gabriel Hallekamp,Martin Rosenkranz,Pascal Raffelberg,Sven Olfen,Kamil Smilowski,R. Burkard,Iris Helfrich,A. A. Tuz,Vikramjeet Singh,Susmita Ghosh,A. Sickmann,Anne-Kathrin Klebl,J. Eickhoff,Bert M. Klebl,Karsten Seidl,Jianxu Chen,A. Grabmaier,R. Viga,Matthias Gunzer
Published 2023 in Nature Communications
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2023
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Nature Communications
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2023-12-11
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Medicine, Engineering
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