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Li T, Gachet Y, Tournier S. MAARS Software for Automatic and Quantitative Analysis of Mitotic Progression. Methods Mol Biol 2024; 2740:275-293. [PMID: 38393482 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3557-5_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
Abstract
In this chapter, we describe a software called MAARS (Mitotic Analysis And Recording System) that enables automatic and quantitative analysis of mitotic progression on an open-source platform. This computer-assisted analysis of cell division allows the unbiased acquisition of multiple parameters such as cell shape or size, metaphase or anaphase delays, as well as various mitotic abnormalities. This chapter describes the power of such an expert system to highlight the complexity of the mechanisms required to prevent mitotic chromosome segregation errors, leading to aneuploidy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tong Li
- MCD, Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse Cedex, France
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- MCD, Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse Cedex, France.
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- MCD, Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse Cedex, France.
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Ohira M, Rhind N. pomBseen: An automated pipeline for analysis of fission yeast images. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0291391. [PMID: 37699057 PMCID: PMC10497161 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
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Fission yeast is a model organism widely used for studies of eukaryotic cell biology. As such, it is subject to bright-field and fluorescent microscopy. Manual analysis of such data can be laborious and subjective. Therefore, we have developed pomBseen, an image analysis pipeline for the quantitation of fission yeast micrographs containing a bright-field channel and up to two fluorescent channels. It accepts a wide range of image formats and produces a table with the size and total and nuclear fluorescent intensities of the cells in the image. Benchmarking of the pipeline against manually annotated datasets demonstrates that it reliably segments cells and acquires their image parameters. Written in MATLAB, pomBseen is also available as a standalone application.
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- Makoto Ohira
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Tang Y, Zhuang Y, Zhang S, Smith ZJ, Li Y, Mu X, Li M, He C, Zheng X, Pan F, Gao T, Zhang L. Azo-Enhanced Raman Scattering for Enhancing the Sensitivity and Tuning the Frequency of Molecular Vibrations. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2021; 7:768-780. [PMID: 34079895 PMCID: PMC8161494 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Raman scattering provides stable narrow-banded signals that potentially allow for multicolor microscopic imaging. The major obstacle for the applications of Raman spectroscopy and microscopy is the small cross section of Raman scattering that results in low sensitivity. Here, we report a new concept of azo-enhanced Raman scattering (AERS) by designing the intrinsic molecular structures using resonance Raman and concomitant fluorescence quenching strategies. Based on the selection of vibrational modes and the enhancing unit of azobenzenes, we obtained a library of AERS molecules with specific Raman signals in the fingerprint and silent frequency regions. The spectral characterization and molecular simulation revealed that the azobenzene unit conjugated to the vibrational modes significantly enhanced Raman signals due to the mechanism of extending the conjugation system, coupling the electronic-vibrational transitions, and improving the symmetry of vibrational modes. The nonradiative decay of azobenzene from the excited state quenched the commitment fluorescence, thus providing a clean background for identifying Raman scattering. The most sensitive AERS molecules produced Raman signals of more than 4 orders of magnitude compared to 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine (EdU). In addition, a frequency tunability of 10 distinct Raman bands was achieved by selecting different types of vibrational modes. This methodology of AERS allows for designing small-molecule Raman probes to visualize various entities in complex systems by multicolor spontaneous Raman imaging. It will open new prospects to explore innovative applications of AERS in interdisciplinary research fields.
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- Yuchen Tang
- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- Department
of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
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- School
of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School
of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- China
Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China
- College
of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Baybay EK, Esposito E, Hauf S. Pomegranate: 2D segmentation and 3D reconstruction for fission yeast and other radially symmetric cells. Sci Rep 2020; 10:16580. [PMID: 33024177 PMCID: PMC7538417 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73597-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Three-dimensional (3D) segmentation of cells in microscopy images is crucial to accurately capture signals that extend across optical sections. Using brightfield images for segmentation has the advantage of being minimally phototoxic and leaving all other channels available for signals of interest. However, brightfield images only readily provide information for two-dimensional (2D) segmentation. In radially symmetric cells, such as fission yeast and many bacteria, this 2D segmentation can be computationally extruded into the third dimension. However, current methods typically make the simplifying assumption that cells are straight rods. Here, we report Pomegranate, a pipeline that performs the extrusion into 3D using spheres placed along the topological skeletons of the 2D-segmented regions. The diameter of these spheres adapts to the cell diameter at each position. Thus, Pomegranate accurately represents radially symmetric cells in 3D even if cell diameter varies and regardless of whether a cell is straight, bent or curved. We have tested Pomegranate on fission yeast and demonstrate its ability to 3D segment wild-type cells as well as classical size and shape mutants. The pipeline is available as a macro for the open-source image analysis software Fiji/ImageJ. 2D segmentations created within or outside Pomegranate can serve as input, thus making this a valuable extension to the image analysis portfolio already available for fission yeast and other radially symmetric cell types.
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- Erod Keaton Baybay
- Department of Biological Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
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