A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Filopodia quantification using filoquant




AuthorsGuillaume Jacquemet, Hellyeh Hamidi, Johanna Ivaska

EditorsE. Rebollo, M. Bosch (eds)

PublisherHumana Press Inc.

Publication year2019

Book title Computer Optimized Microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology

Journal name in sourceMethods in Molecular Biology

Series titleMethods in Molecular Biology

Volume2040

First page 359

Last page373

Number of pages15

ISBN978-1-4939-9685-8

eISBN978-1-4939-9686-5

ISSN1064-3745

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9686-5_16


Abstract

Filopodia are fingerlike membrane protrusions that are extended by cells in vitro and in vivo. Due to important roles in sensing the extracellular microenvironment, filopodia and filopodia-like protrusions have been implicated in numerous biological processes including epithelial sheet zippering in development and wound healing and in cancer progression. Recently, there has been an explosion in the number of software available to analyze specific features of cell protrusions with the aim of gaining mechanistic insights into the action of filopodia and filopodia-like structures. In this methods chapter, we highlight an open-access software called FiloQuant that has been developed to specifically quantify the length, density, and dynamics of filopodia and filopodia-like structures from in vitro and in vivo generated samples. We provide step-by-step protocols on (i) how to install FiloQuant in the ImageJ platform (Fiji), (ii) how to quantify filopodia and filopodia-like protrusions from single images using FiloQuant, and (iii) how to track filopodial protrusions from live-cell imaging experiments using FiloQuant and TrackMate.



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