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Expansion microscopy with ninefold swelling (NIFS) hydrogel permits cellular ultrastructure imaging on conventional microscope

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SCIENCE ADVANCES
卷 8, 期 18, 页码 -

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AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm4006

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [32071405, 31771088, 31971271]
  2. Biomedical and Engineering Multidisciplinary Funding of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) [YG2019QNB22]

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Expansion microscopy (ExM) improves resolution of conventional microscopy by physically expanding biological specimens. We demonstrate a new hydrogel and a detachable chip that enhance the reproducibility of this high-resolution imaging technology. It allows for imaging cellular ultrastructures that cannot be resolved by conventional microscopy.
Superresolution microscopy enables probing of cellular ultrastructures. However, its widespread applications are limited by the need for expensive machinery, specific hardware, and sophisticated data processing. Expansion microscopy (ExM) improves the resolution of conventional microscopy by physically expanding biological specimens before imaging and currently provides similar to 70-nm resolution, which still lags behind that of modern superresolution microscopy (similar to 30 nm). Here, we demonstrate a ninefold swelling (NIFS) hydrogel, that can reduce ExM resolution to 31 nm when using regular traditional microscopy. We also design a detachable chip that integrates all the experimental operations to facilitate the maximal reproducibility of this high-resolution imaging technology. We demonstrate this technique on the superimaging of nuclear pore complex and clathrin-coated pits, whose structures can hardly be resolved by conventional microscopy. The method presented here offers a universal platform with superresolution imaging to unveil cellular ultrastructural details using standard conventional laboratory microscopes.

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