Abstract
High-content screening (HCS) is a cell-based type of phenotypic screening that combines multiple simultaneous readouts with a high level of throughput. A particular benefit of this form of screening for drug discovery is the ability to perform the interrogation in a biologically relevant system. This approach has greatly advanced the field of drug discovery for cryptosporidiosis, a diarrheal disease caused by protozoan parasites of Cryptosporidium spp. These parasites are obligate intracellular parasites and cannot be cultured in vitro without the support of a host cell, limiting the options for potential assay readout. Here we describe an established 384- or 1536-well format high-content imaging (HCI) assay of Cryptosporidium-infected HCT-8 human ileocecal adenocarcinoma cells. This HCS assay is a powerful tool to assess large numbers of compounds to power drug discovery, as well as to phenotypically characterize known Cryptosporidium-active compounds.
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Love, M.S., McNamara, C.W. (2020). High-Content Screening for Cryptosporidium Drug Discovery. In: Mead, J., Arrowood, M. (eds) Cryptosporidium. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2052. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9748-0_17
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