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ToolsAl-Mamun, Mohammed, Ravenhill, Lorna, Srisukkham, Worawut, Hossain, Alamgir, Fall, Charles, Ellis, Vincent and Bass, Rosemary (2016) Effects of noninhibitory serpin maspin on the actin cytoskeleton: A quantitative image modeling approach. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22 (2). pp. 349-409. ISSN 1431-9276
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Abstract
Recent developments in quantitative image analysis allow us to interrogate confocal microscopy images to answer biological questions. Clumped and layered cell nuclei and cytoplasm in confocal images challenges the ability to identify subcellular compartments. To date, there is no perfect image analysis method to identify cytoskeletal changes in confocal images. Here, we present a multidisciplinary study where an image analysis model was developed to allow quantitative measurements of changes in the cytoskeleton of cells with different maspin exposure. Maspin, a noninhibitory serpin influences cell migration, adhesion, invasion, proliferation, and apoptosis in ways that are consistent with its identification as a tumor metastasis suppressor. Using different cell types, we tested the hypothesis that reduction in cell migration by maspin would be reflected in the architecture of the actin cytoskeleton. A hybrid marker-controlled watershed segmentation technique was used to segment the nuclei, cytoplasm, and ruffling regions before measuring cytoskeletal changes. This was informed by immunohistochemical staining of cells transfected stably or transiently with maspin proteins, or with added bioactive peptides or protein. Image analysis results showed that the effects of maspin were mirrored by effects on cell architecture, in a way that could be described quantitatively.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2017 05:06 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2023 00:49 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63558 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1431927616000520 |
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