Title |
Automatic Morphological Subtyping Reveals New Roles of Caspases in Mitochondrial Dynamics
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Published in |
PLoS Computational Biology, October 2011
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002212 |
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Authors |
Jyh-Ying Peng, Chung-Chih Lin, Yen-Jen Chen, Lung-Sen Kao, Young-Chau Liu, Chung-Chien Chou, Yi-Hung Huang, Fang-Rong Chang, Yang-Chang Wu, Yuh-Show Tsai, Chun-Nan Hsu |
Abstract |
Morphological dynamics of mitochondria is associated with key cellular processes related to aging and neuronal degenerative diseases, but the lack of standard quantification of mitochondrial morphology impedes systematic investigation. This paper presents an automated system for the quantification and classification of mitochondrial morphology. We discovered six morphological subtypes of mitochondria for objective quantification of mitochondrial morphology. These six subtypes are small globules, swollen globules, straight tubules, twisted tubules, branched tubules and loops. The subtyping was derived by applying consensus clustering to a huge collection of more than 200 thousand mitochondrial images extracted from 1422 micrographs of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells treated with different drugs, and was validated by evidence of functional similarity reported in the literature. Quantitative statistics of subtype compositions in cells is useful for correlating drug response and mitochondrial dynamics. Combining the quantitative results with our biochemical studies about the effects of squamocin on CHO cells reveals new roles of Caspases in the regulatory mechanisms of mitochondrial dynamics. This system is not only of value to the mitochondrial field, but also applicable to the investigation of other subcellular organelle morphology. |
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