A novel method for quantified, superresolved, three-dimensional colocalisation of isotropic, fluorescent particles.
Histochem Cell Biol
; 139(3): 391-402, 2013 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23381680
ABSTRACT
Colocalisation, the overlap of subcellular structures labelled with different colours, is a key step to characterise cellular phenotypes. We have developed a novel bioimage informatics approach for quantifying colocalisation of round, blob-like structures in two-colour, highly resolved, three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy datasets. First, the algorithm identifies isotropic fluorescent particles, of relative brightness compared to their immediate neighbourhood, in three dimensions and for each colour. The centroids of these spots are then determined, and each object in one location of a colour image is checked for a corresponding object in the other colour image. Three-dimensional distance maps between the centroids of differently coloured spots then display where and how closely they colocalise, while histograms allow to analyse all colocalisation distances. We use the method to reveal sparse colocalisation of different human leukocyte antigen receptors in choriocarcinoma cells. It can also be applied to other isotropic subcellular structures such as vesicles, aggresomes and chloroplasts. The simple, robust and fast approach yields superresolved, object-based colocalisation maps and provides a first indication of protein-protein interactions of fluorescent, isotropic particles.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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Fluorescent Dyes
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Microscopy, Fluorescence
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Histochem Cell Biol
Journal subject:
CITOLOGIA
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HISTOCITOQUIMICA
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom