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Li J, Shariff A, Wiking M, Lundberg E, Rohde GK, Murphy RF. Estimating microtubule distributions from 2D immunofluorescence microscopy images reveals differences among human cultured cell lines. PLoS One 2012; 7:e50292. [PMID: 23209697 PMCID: PMC3508979 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2012] [Accepted: 10/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Microtubules are filamentous structures that are involved in several important cellular processes, including cell division, cellular structure and mechanics, and intracellular transportation. Little is known about potential differences in microtubule distributions within and across cell lines. Here we describe a method to estimate information pertaining to 3D microtubule distributions from 2D fluorescence images. Our method allows for quantitative comparisons of microtubule distribution parameters (number of microtubules, mean length) between different cell lines. Among eleven cell lines compared, some showed differences that could be accounted for by differences in the total amount of tubulin per cell while others showed statistically significant differences in the balance between number and length of microtubules. We also observed that some cell lines that visually appear different in their microtubule distributions are quite similar when the model parameters are considered. The method is expected to be generally useful for comparing microtubule distributions between cell lines and for a given cell line after various perturbations. The results are also expected to enable analysis of the differences in gene expression underlying the observed differences in microtubule distributions among cell types.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jieyue Li
- Center for Bioimage Informatics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Center for Bioimage Informatics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden
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- Center for Bioimage Informatics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- * E-mail: (GKR); (RM)
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- Center for Bioimage Informatics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Faculty of Biology and Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- * E-mail: (GKR); (RM)
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Wakayama T, Nakata H, Kurobo M, Sai Y, Iseki S. Expression, localization, and binding activity of the ezrin/radixin/moesin proteins in the mouse testis. J Histochem Cytochem 2008; 57:351-62. [PMID: 19064715 DOI: 10.1369/jhc.2008.952440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
The ezrin, radixin, and moesin (ERM) proteins represent a family of adaptor proteins linking transmembrane proteins to the cytoskeleton. The seminiferous epithelium undergoes extensive changes in cellular composition, location, and shape, implicating roles of the membrane-cytoskeleton interaction. It remains unknown, however, whether the ERM proteins are expressed and play significant roles in the testis. In the present study, we examined the spatiotemporal expression of ERM proteins in the mouse testis by Western blotting and immunohistochemistry. Ezrin immunoreactivity was demonstrated in the cytoplasm of steps 15 and 16 spermatids from 5 weeks postpartum through adulthood, whereas radixin immunoreactivity was in the apical cytoplasm of Sertoli cells from 1 week through 2 weeks postpartum. No immunoreactivity for moesin was detected at any age. Immunoprecipitation demonstrated that ezrin was bound to the cytoskeletal component actin, whereas radixin was bound to both actin and tubulin. Of the transmembrane proteins known to interact with ERM proteins, only cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, a chloride transporter, was bound to ezrin in elongated spermatids. These results suggest that ezrin is involved in spermiogenesis whereas radixin is involved in the maturation of Sertoli cells, through interaction with different sets of membrane proteins and cytoskeletal components.
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- Tomohiko Wakayama
- Department of Histology and Embryology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8640, Japan.
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Goode BL, Drubin DG, Barnes G. Functional cooperation between the microtubule and actin cytoskeletons. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2000; 12:63-71. [PMID: 10679357 DOI: 10.1016/s0955-0674(99)00058-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 348] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In diverse cell types, microtubule (MT) and actin filament networks cooperate functionally during a wide variety of processes, including vesicle and organelle transport, cleavage furrow placement, directed cell migration, spindle rotation, and nuclear migration. The mechanisms by which MTs and actin filaments cooperate to mediate these different processes can be grouped into two broad categories: coordinated MT- and actin-based transport to move vesicles, organelles, and cell fate determinants; and targeting and capture of MT ends at cortical actin sites. Over the past several years, a growing number of cellular factors that bridge these cytoskeletal systems have been identified. These include 'hetero-motor' complexes (physically associated myosin and kinesin), myosin-CLIP170 complexes, formin homology (FH) proteins, dynein and the dynactin complex, Kar9p, coronin, Kelch repeat-containing proteins, and ERM proteins.
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- B L Goode
- Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California Berkeley, Oxford and Hearst, CA 94720-3202, USA. goode@uclink4. berkeley.edu
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Ezrin, radixin and moesin, collectively known as the ERM proteins, are a group of closely related membrane-cytoskeleton linkers that regulate cell adhesion and cortical morphogenesis. ERM proteins can self-associate through intra- and inter-molecular interactions, and these interactions mask several binding sites on the proteins. ERM activation involves unfolding of the molecule, and allows the protein to bind to plasma membrane components either directly, or indirectly through linker proteins. The discovery that the tumour-suppressor NF2, also known as merlin/schwannomin, is related to ERM proteins has added a new impetus to investigations of their roles. This review discusses current understanding of the structure and function of members of the ERM family of proteins.
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- P Mangeat
- Université Montpellier II, CNRS UMR 5539, C.C. 107, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France.
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