QuimP: analyzing transmembrane signalling in highly deformable cells.

ABSTRACT:

Summary

Transmembrane signalling plays important physiological roles, with G protein-coupled cell surface receptors being particularly important therapeutic targets. Fluorescent proteins are widely used to study signalling, but analyses of image time series can be challenging, in particular when cells change shape. QuimP software semi-automatically tracks spatio-temporal patterns of fluorescence at the cell membrane at high spatial resolution. This makes it a unique tool for studying transmembrane signalling, particularly during cell migration in immune or cancer cells for example.

Availability and implementation

QuimP (http://warwick.ac.uk/quimp) is a set of Java plugins for Fiji/ImageJ (http://fiji.sc) installable through the Fiji Updater (http://warwick.ac.uk/quimp/wiki-p

SUBMITTER: Baniukiewicz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6061833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature