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ArticleScientific reports2019

The nucleus does not significantly affect the migratory trajectories of amoeba in two-dimensional environments.

Ildefonso M De la Fuente, Carlos Bringas, Iker Malaina, Benjamin Regner, Alberto Pérez-Samartín, María Dolores Boyano, María Fedetz, José I López, Gorka Pérez-Yarza, Jesus M Cortes and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ildefonso M De la FuenteDepartment of Nutrition, CEBAS-CSIC Institute, Espinardo University Campus, Murcia, 30100, Spain. mtpmadei@ehu.eus.
Carlos BringasDepartment of Cell Biology and Histology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Leioa, 48940, Spain.
Iker MalainaDepartment of Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Leioa, 48940, Spain.
Benjamin RegnerInsight Data Science., Palo Alto, California, USA.
Alberto Pérez-SamartínDepartment of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Leioa, 48940, Spain.
María Dolores BoyanoDepartment of Cell Biology and Histology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Leioa, 48940, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-1054
María FedetzDepartment of Cellular Biology and Immunology, Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine "López-Neyra", CSIC, Granada, 18100, Spain.
José I LópezDepartment of Pathology, Cruces University Hospital, Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Barakaldo, 48903, Spain.
Gorka Pérez-YarzaDepartment of Cell Biology and Histology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Leioa, 48940, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-491X
Jesus M CortesDepartment of Cell Biology and Histology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Leioa, 48940, Spain.
Terrence SejnowskiComputational Neurobiology Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 92037, USA.
University of the Basque Country · ESIkerbasque · ESInstituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina "López - Neyra" · ESSalk Institute for Biological Studies · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For a wide range of cells, from bacteria to mammals, locomotion movements are a crucial systemic behavior for cellular life. Despite its importance in a plethora of fundamental physiological processes and human pathologies, how unicellular organisms efficiently regulate their locomotion system is an unresolved question. Here, to understand the dynamic characteristics of the locomotion movements and to quantitatively study the role of the nucleus in the migration of Amoeba proteus we have analyzed the movement trajectories of enucleated and non-enucleated amoebas on flat two-dimensional (2D) surfaces using advanced non-linear physical-mathematical tools and computational methods. Our analysis shows that both non-enucleated and enucleated amoebas display the same kind of dynamic migration structure characterized by highly organized data sequences, super-diffusion, non-trivial long-range positive correlations, persistent dynamics with trend-reinforcing behavior, and move-step fluctuations with scale invariant properties. Our results suggest that the presence of the nucleus does not significantly affect the locomotion of amoeba in 2D environments.

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Models, BiologicalAmoebaCell NucleusLeast-Squares AnalysisMicroscopy, VideoMovementNonlinear Dynamics

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PMID31704992
PMCPMC6841717
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