TY - GEN
T1 - On the synchrony of morphological and molecular signaling events in cell migration
AU - Dauwels, Justin
AU - Tsukada, Yuki
AU - Sakumura, Yuichi
AU - Ishii, Shin
AU - Aoki, Kazuhiro
AU - Nakamura, Takeshi
AU - Matsuda, Michiyuki
AU - Vialatte, François
AU - Cichocki, Andrzej
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper investigates the dynamics of cell migration, which is the movement of a cell towards a certain target area. More specifically, the objective is to analyze the causal interdependence between cellular- morphological events and molecular-signaling events. To this end, a novel data analysis method is developed: first the local morphological changes and molecular signaling events are determined by means of edge evolution tracking (EET), next the interdependence of those events is quantified through the method of stochastic event synchrony (SES). The proposed method is applied to time-lapse fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) images of Rac1 activity in motile HT1080 cells; the protein Rac1 is well known to induce filamentous structures that enable cells to migrate. Results show a significant delay between local Rac1 activity events and morphological events. This observation provides new insights into the dynamic relationship between cellular- morphological change and molecular-signaling of migrating cells, and may pave the way to novel biophysical models of cell migration.
AB - This paper investigates the dynamics of cell migration, which is the movement of a cell towards a certain target area. More specifically, the objective is to analyze the causal interdependence between cellular- morphological events and molecular-signaling events. To this end, a novel data analysis method is developed: first the local morphological changes and molecular signaling events are determined by means of edge evolution tracking (EET), next the interdependence of those events is quantified through the method of stochastic event synchrony (SES). The proposed method is applied to time-lapse fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) images of Rac1 activity in motile HT1080 cells; the protein Rac1 is well known to induce filamentous structures that enable cells to migrate. Results show a significant delay between local Rac1 activity events and morphological events. This observation provides new insights into the dynamic relationship between cellular- morphological change and molecular-signaling of migrating cells, and may pave the way to novel biophysical models of cell migration.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-02490-0_58
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-02490-0_58
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349104190
SN - 3642024890
SN - 9783642024894
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 469
EP - 477
BT - Advances in Neuro-Information Processing - 15th International Conference, ICONIP 2008, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 15th International Conference on Neuro-Information Processing, ICONIP 2008
Y2 - 25 November 2008 through 28 November 2008
ER -