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Yu C, Richly M, Hoang TT, El Beheiry M, Türkcan S, Masson JB, Alexandrou A, Bouzigues CI. Confinement energy landscape classification reveals membrane receptor nano-organization mechanisms. Biophys J 2024; 123:1882-1895. [PMID: 38845200 PMCID: PMC11267427 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024] Open
Abstract
The cell membrane organization has an essential functional role through the control of membrane receptor confinement in micro- or nanodomains. Several mechanisms have been proposed to account for these properties, although some features have remained controversial, notably the nature, size, and stability of cholesterol- and sphingolipid-rich domains or lipid rafts. Here, we probed the effective energy landscape acting on single-nanoparticle-labeled membrane receptors confined in raft nanodomains- epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), Clostridium perfringens ε-toxin receptor (CPεTR), and Clostridium septicum α-toxin receptor (CSαTR)-and compared it with hop-diffusing transferrin receptors. By establishing a new analysis pipeline combining Bayesian inference, decision trees, and clustering approaches, we systematically classified single-protein trajectories according to the type of effective confining energy landscape. This revealed the existence of only two distinct organization modalities: confinement in a quadratic energy landscape for EGFR, CPεTR, and CSαTR (A), and free diffusion in confinement domains resulting from the steric hindrance due to F-actin barriers for transferrin receptor (B). The further characterization of effective confinement energy landscapes by Bayesian inference revealed the role of interactions with the domain environment in cholesterol- and sphingolipid-rich domains with (EGFR) or without (CPεTR and CSαTR) interactions with F-actin to regulate the confinement energy depth. These two distinct mechanisms result in the same organization type (A). We revealed that the apparent domain sizes for these receptor trajectories resulted from Brownian exploration of the energy landscape in a steady-state-like regime at a common effective temperature, independently of the underlying molecular mechanisms. These results highlight that confinement domains may be adequately described as interaction hotspots rather than rafts with abrupt domain boundaries. Altogether, these results support a new model for functional receptor confinement in membrane nanodomains and pave the way to the constitution of an atlas of membrane protein organization.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chao Yu
- Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, CNRS UMR74645, Inserm U1182, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, CNRS UMR74645, Inserm U1182, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, CNRS UMR74645, Inserm U1182, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, Paris, France; Épiméthée, INRIA, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, CNRS UMR74645, Inserm U1182, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3571, Decision and Bayesian Computation, Paris, France; Épiméthée, INRIA, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, CNRS UMR74645, Inserm U1182, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Laboratoire Optique et Biosciences, CNRS UMR74645, Inserm U1182, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Palaiseau, France.
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Zunino L, Soriano MC. Quantifying the diversity of multiple time series with an ordinal symbolic approach. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:065302. [PMID: 38243479 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.065302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
Abstract
The main motivation of this paper is to introduce the ordinal diversity, a symbolic tool able to quantify the degree of diversity of multiple time series. Analytical, numerical, and experimental analyses illustrate the utility of this measure to quantify how diverse, from an ordinal perspective, a set of many time series is. We have shown that ordinal diversity is able to characterize dynamical richness and dynamical transitions in stochastic processes and deterministic systems, including chaotic regimes. This ordinal tool also serves to identify optimal operating conditions in the machine learning approach of reservoir computing. These results allow us to envision potential applications for the handling and characterization of large amounts of data, paving the way for addressing some of the most pressing issues facing the current big data paradigm.
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- Luciano Zunino
- Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas (CONICET La Plata - CIC - UNLP), C.C. 3, 1897 Gonnet, La Plata, Argentina
- Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), 1900 La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos CSIC-UIB, Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Requena B, Masó-Orriols S, Bertran J, Lewenstein M, Manzo C, Muñoz-Gil G. Inferring pointwise diffusion properties of single trajectories with deep learning. Biophys J 2023; 122:4360-4369. [PMID: 37853693 PMCID: PMC10698275 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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To characterize the mechanisms governing the diffusion of particles in biological scenarios, it is essential to accurately determine their diffusive properties. To do so, we propose a machine-learning method to characterize diffusion processes with time-dependent properties at the experimental time resolution. Our approach operates at the single-trajectory level predicting the properties of interest, such as the diffusion coefficient or the anomalous diffusion exponent, at every time step of the trajectory. In this way, changes in the diffusive properties occurring along the trajectory emerge naturally in the prediction and thus allow the characterization without any prior knowledge or assumption about the system. We first benchmark the method on synthetic trajectories simulated under several conditions. We show that our approach can successfully characterize both abrupt and continuous changes in the diffusion coefficient or the anomalous diffusion exponent. Finally, we leverage the method to analyze experiments of single-molecule diffusion of two membrane proteins in living cells: the pathogen-recognition receptor DC-SIGN and the integrin α5β1. The analysis allows us to characterize physical parameters and diffusive states with unprecedented accuracy, shedding new light on the underlying mechanisms.
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- Borja Requena
- ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- Facultat de Ciències, Tecnologia I Enginyeries, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain; Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Ciències de la Vida i de la Salut a la Catalunya Central (IRIS-CC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain
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- Facultat de Ciències, Tecnologia I Enginyeries, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain; Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Ciències de la Vida i de la Salut a la Catalunya Central (IRIS-CC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain
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- ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain; ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain
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- Facultat de Ciències, Tecnologia I Enginyeries, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain; Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Ciències de la Vida i de la Salut a la Catalunya Central (IRIS-CC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Seckler H, Szwabiński J, Metzler R. Machine-Learning Solutions for the Analysis of Single-Particle Diffusion Trajectories. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:7910-7923. [PMID: 37646323 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Single-particle traces of the diffusive motion of molecules, cells, or animals are by now routinely measured, similar to stochastic records of stock prices or weather data. Deciphering the stochastic mechanism behind the recorded dynamics is vital in understanding the observed systems. Typically, the task is to decipher the exact type of diffusion and/or to determine the system parameters. The tools used in this endeavor are currently being revolutionized by modern machine-learning techniques. In this Perspective we provide an overview of recently introduced methods in machine-learning for diffusive time series, most notably, those successfully competing in the anomalous diffusion challenge. As such methods are often criticized for their lack of interpretability, we focus on means to include uncertainty estimates and feature-based approaches, both improving interpretability and providing concrete insight into the learning process of the machine. We expand the discussion by examining predictions on different out-of-distribution data. We also comment on expected future developments.
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- Henrik Seckler
- Institute of Physics & Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Hugo Steinhaus Center, Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute of Physics & Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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Liang Y, Wang W, Metzler R, Cherstvy AG. Anomalous diffusion, nonergodicity, non-Gaussianity, and aging of fractional Brownian motion with nonlinear clocks. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:034113. [PMID: 37849140 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.034113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/19/2023]
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How do nonlinear clocks in time and/or space affect the fundamental properties of a stochastic process? Specifically, how precisely may ergodic processes such as fractional Brownian motion (FBM) acquire predictable nonergodic and aging features being subjected to such conditions? We address these questions in the current study. To describe different types of non-Brownian motion of particles-including power-law anomalous, ultraslow or logarithmic, as well as superfast or exponential diffusion-we here develop and analyze a generalized stochastic process of scaled-fractional Brownian motion (SFBM). The time- and space-SFBM processes are, respectively, constructed based on FBM running with nonlinear time and space clocks. The fundamental statistical characteristics such as non-Gaussianity of particle displacements, nonergodicity, as well as aging are quantified for time- and space-SFBM by selecting different clocks. The latter parametrize power-law anomalous, ultraslow, and superfast diffusion. The results of our computer simulations are fully consistent with the analytical predictions for several functional forms of clocks. We thoroughly examine the behaviors of the probability-density function, the mean-squared displacement, the time-averaged mean-squared displacement, as well as the aging factor. Our results are applicable for rationalizing the impact of nonlinear time and space properties superimposed onto the FBM-type dynamics. SFBM offers a general framework for a universal and more precise model-based description of anomalous, nonergodic, non-Gaussian, and aging diffusion in single-molecule-tracking observations.
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- Yingjie Liang
- College of Mechanics and Materials, Hohai University, 211100 Nanjing, China
- Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Simulation-based inference for non-parametric statistical comparison of biomolecule dynamics. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1010088. [PMID: 36730436 PMCID: PMC9928078 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Revised: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Numerous models have been developed to account for the complex properties of the random walks of biomolecules. However, when analysing experimental data, conditions are rarely met to ensure model identification. The dynamics may simultaneously be influenced by spatial and temporal heterogeneities of the environment, out-of-equilibrium fluxes and conformal changes of the tracked molecules. Recorded trajectories are often too short to reliably discern such multi-scale dynamics, which precludes unambiguous assessment of the type of random walk and its parameters. Furthermore, the motion of biomolecules may not be well described by a single, canonical random walk model. Here, we develop a two-step statistical testing scheme for comparing biomolecule dynamics observed in different experimental conditions without having to identify or make strong prior assumptions about the model generating the recorded random walks. We first train a graph neural network to perform simulation-based inference and thus learn a rich summary statistics vector describing individual trajectories. We then compare trajectories obtained in different biological conditions using a non-parametric maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) statistical test on their so-obtained summary statistics. This procedure allows us to characterise sets of random walks regardless of their generating models, without resorting to model-specific physical quantities or estimators. We first validate the relevance of our approach on numerically simulated trajectories. This demonstrates both the statistical power of the MMD test and the descriptive power of the learnt summary statistics compared to estimates of physical quantities. We then illustrate the ability of our framework to detect changes in α-synuclein dynamics at synapses in cultured cortical neurons, in response to membrane depolarisation, and show that detected differences are largely driven by increased protein mobility in the depolarised state, in agreement with previous findings. The method provides a means of interpreting the differences it detects in terms of single trajectory characteristics. Finally, we emphasise the interest of performing various comparisons to probe the heterogeneity of experimentally acquired datasets at different levels of granularity (e.g., biological replicates, fields of view, and organelles).
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