Quantitative analysis of cytokeratin network topology in the MCF7 cell line

Cytometry

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-213

  Portet, Stéphanie ^a,c   Vassy, Jany ^a   Beil, Michael ^b   Millot, Guy ^a   Hebbache, Abdelhamid ^a   Rigaut, Jean Paul ^a   Schoëvaërt, Damien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Curvilinear structures; Cytokeratin; Cytoskeleton; Filament morphology; Image analysis; Network topology; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033104134     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19990301)35:3<203::AID-CYTO3>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Ingber DE. Tensegrity: the architectural basis of cellular mechanotransduction. Annu Rev Physiol 1997;59:575-599.
2. Thoumine O, Ott A. Time scale dependent viscoelastic and contractile regimes in fibroblasts probed by microplate manipulation. J Cell Sci 1997;110:2109-2116.
3. Thoumine O, Ziegler T, Girard PR, Nerem RM. Elongation of confluent endothelial cells in culture: the importance of fields of force in the associated alterations of their cytoskeletal structure. Exp Cell Res 1995;219:427-441.
4. Wang N, Ingber DE. Control of cytoskeletal mechanics by extracellular matrix, cell shape, and mechanical tension. Biophys J 1994;66:2181-2189.
5. Roskelley CD, Desprez PY, Bissell M. Extracellular matrix-dependent tissue-specific gene expression in mammary epithelial cells requires both physical and biochemical signal transduction. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1994;91:12378-12382.
6. Bissel M, Hall H, Parry G. How does the extracellular matrix direct gene expression? J Theor Biol 1982;99:31-68.
7. Maniotis A, Chen C, Ingber D. Demonstration of mechanical connections between integrins, cytoskeletal filaments, and nucleoplasm that stabilize nuclear structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1997;94:849-854.
8. Mooney D, Langer R, Ingber D. Cytoskeletal filament assembly and the control of cell spreading and function by extracellular matrix. J Cell Sci 1995;108:2311-2320.
9. Roskelley CD, Srebrow A, Bissell M. A hierarchy of ECM-mediated signalling tissue-specific gene expression. Curr Opin Cell Biol 1995;7: 736-747.
10. Getzenberg RH. Nuclear matrix and the regulation of gene expression: tissue specificity. J Cell Biochem 1994;55:22-31.
11. Pienta KJ, Coffey DS. Nuclear-cytoskeletal interactions - evidence for physical connections between the nucleus and cell periphery and their alteration by transformation. J Cell Biochem 1992;49:357-365.
12. Stewart M. Intermediate filament structure and assembly. Curr Opin Cell Biol 1993;5:3-11.
13. Janmey PA, Euteneuer U, Traub P, Schliwa M. Viscoelastic properties of vimentin compared with other filamentous biopolymer networks. J Cell Biol 1991;113:155-160.
14. Goldman RD, Khuon S, Chou YH, Opal P, Steinert PM. The function of intermediate filaments in cell shape and cytoskeletal integrity. J Cell Biol 1996;134:971-983.
15. Nagle RB. A review of intermediate filament biology and their use in pathologic diagnosis. Mol Biol Reprod 1994;19:3-21.
16. Bloom S, Lockard VG, Bloom M. Intermediate filament-mediated stretch-induced changes in chromatin: a hypothesis for growth initiation in cardiac myocytes. J Mol Cardiol 1996;28:2123-2127.
17. Curschellas E, Matter A, Regenass U. Immunolocalization of cytoskeletal elements in human mammary epithelial cells. Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol 1987;23:1517-1527.
18. Sapino A, Guidoni L, Bussolati G, Marchisio PC. Oestrogen and tamoxifen induced cytoskeletal changes in breast cancer cells. Chemioterapia 1985;4:243-245.
19. st Meeting of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Paris. 1996. p 108.
20. Beil M, Irinopoulou T, Vassy J, Wolf G. A dual approach to structural texture analysis in microscopic images. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 1995;48:211-219.
21. Vassy J, Beil M, Irinopoulou T, Rigaut JP. Quantitative image analysis of cytokeratin filament distribution during fetal rat liver development. Hepatology 1996;23:630-638.
22. Vassy J, Irinopoulou T, Beil M, Rigaut JP. Spatial distribution of cytoskeleton intermediate filaments during fetal rat hepatocyte differentiation. Microsc Res Tech 1997;39:436-443.
23. Soule HD, Vazquez J, Long A, Albert S, Brennan MA. A human cell line from pleural effusion derived from a breast carcinoma. JNCI 1973;51: 1409-1416.
24. Art J. Photon detectors for confocal microscopy. In: Pawley J, editor. The handbook of biological confocal microscopy. Madison: IRM Press; 1989. p 115-126.
25. Serra J. Image analysis and mathematical morphology. II: Theoretical advances, London. Academic Press; 1988. p 1-411.
26. Vincent L, Soille P. Watershed in digital space: an efficient algorithm based on immersion simulation. IEEE Trans PAMI 1991;13:583-597.
27. Heijmans H. Mathematical morphology: a modern approach in image processing based on algebra and geometry. SIAM Rev 1995;37:1-36.
28. Serra J. Image analysis and mathematical morphology. London: Academic Press; 1982. p 1-610.
29. Bleau A, De Guise J, Leblanc AR. A new set of fast algorithms for mathematical morphology. Identification of topographic features on grayscale images. Image Understanding 1992;56:210-229.
30. Coster M, Chermant JL. Precis d'analyse d images. Paris: Editions CNRS; 1989. p 1-521.
31. Gray A. Modern differential geometry of curves and surfaces. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 1993. p 90-95.
32. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ. Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research New York: Freeman; 1981. p 432-434.
33. Krickeberg K. Petit cours de statistique. Berlin, Springer-Verlag; 1996. p 34-37.
34. Civelekoglu G, Edelstein-Keshet L. Modelling the dynamics of F-actin in the cell. Bull Math Biol 1994;56:587-616.
35. Dufort P, Lumsden C. How profilin/barbed-end synergy controls actin polymerization: a kinetic model of the ATP hydrolysis circuit. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 1996;35:309-330.
36. Satcher RL, Dewey F. Theoretical estimates of mechanical properties of the endothelial cell cytoskeleton. Biophys J 1996;71:109-118.
37. Suciu A, Civelekoglu G, Tardy H, Meister JJ. Model for the alignment of actin filaments in the endothelial cells subjected to fluid shear stress. Bull Math Biol 1997;59:1029-1046.
38. Thomason DB, Anderson O, Menton V. Fractal analysis of cytoskeleton rearrangement in cardiac muscle during head-down tilt. J Appl Physiol 1996;81:1522-1527.
39. Steger C. Extracting curvilinear structures: a differential geometric approach. Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision. Lecture Notes Comput Sci 1996;1024:630-641.
40. Ingber DE. Cellular tensegrity - defining new rules of biological design that govern the cytoskeleton. J Cell Sci 1993;104:613-627.
41. Forgacs G. On the possible role of cytoskeletal filamentous networks in intracellular signaling: an approach based on percolation. J Cell Sci 1995;108:2131-2143.