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ArticleBiophysical journal2016

A Tool for Alignment and Averaging of Sparse Fluorescence Signals in Rod-Shaped Bacteria.

Joris M H Goudsmits, Antoine M van Oijen, Andrew Robinson

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joris M H GoudsmitsZernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Antoine M van OijenZernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Andrew RobinsonZernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: andrewr@uow.edu.au.
University of Groningen · NLUniversity of Wollongong · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescence microscopy studies have shown that many proteins localize to highly specific subregions within bacterial cells. Analyzing the spatial distribution of low-abundance proteins within cells is highly challenging because information obtained from multiple cells needs to be combined to provide well-defined maps of protein locations. We present (to our knowledge) a novel tool for fast, automated, and user-impartial analysis of fluorescent protein distribution across the short axis of rod-shaped bacteria. To demonstrate the strength of our approach in extracting spatial distributions and visualizing dynamic intracellular processes, we analyzed sparse fluorescence signals from single-molecule time-lapse images of individual Escherichia coli cells. In principle, our tool can be used to provide information on the distribution of signal intensity across the short axis of any rod-shaped object.

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Microscopy, FluorescenceCell MembraneCytosolEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedProtein TransportEscherichia coli Proteins

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PMID27119631
PMCPMC4850326
OpenAlexW2343600840

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