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| Author | G. de Oliveira; A. Cartas; Marc Bolaños; Mariella Dimiccoli; Xavier Giro; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | LEMoRe: A Lifelog Engine for Moments Retrieval at the NTCIR-Lifelog LSAT Task | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Semantic image retrieval from large amounts of egocentric visual data requires to leverage powerful techniques for filling in the semantic gap. This paper introduces LEMoRe, a Lifelog Engine for Moments Retrieval, developed in the context of the Lifelog Semantic Access Task (LSAT) of the the NTCIR-12 challenge and discusses its performance variation on different trials. LEMoRe integrates classical image descriptors with high-level semantic concepts extracted by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), powered by a graphic user interface that uses natural language processing. Although this is just a first attempt towards interactive image retrieval from large egocentric datasets and there is a large room for improvement of the system components and the user interface, the structure of the system itself and the way the single components cooperate are very promising. | ||||
| Address | Tokyo; Japan; June 2016 | ||||
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Admin @ si @OCB2016 | Serial | 2789 | ||
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| Author | Dan Norton; Fernando Vilariño; Onur Ferhat | ||||
| Title | Memory Field – Creative Engagement in Digital Collections | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Internet Librarian International Conference | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | “Memory Fields” is a trans-disciplinary project aiming at the (re)valorisation of digital collections.Its main deliverable is an interface for a dual screen installation, used to access and mix the public library digital collections. The collections being used in this case are a collection of digitised posters from the Spanish Civil War, belonging to the Arxiu General de Catalunya, and a collection of field recordings made by Dan Norton. The system generates visualisations, and the images and sounds are mixed together using narrative primitives of video dj. Users contribute to the digital collections by adding personal memories and observations. The comments and recollections appear as flowers growing in a “memory field” and memories remain public in a Twitter feed (@Memoryfields). | ||||
| Address | London; UK; October 2015 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | ILI | ||
| Notes | MV;SIAI | Approved | no | ||
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Admin @ si @NVF2015 | Serial | 2796 | ||
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| Author | Marc Masana; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov | ||||
| Title | On-the-fly Network pruning for object detection | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | International conference on learning representations | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Object detection with deep neural networks is often performed by passing a few
thousand candidate bounding boxes through a deep neural network for each image. These bounding boxes are highly correlated since they originate from the same image. In this paper we investigate how to exploit feature occurrence at the image scale to prune the neural network which is subsequently applied to all bounding boxes. We show that removing units which have near-zero activation in the image allows us to significantly reduce the number of parameters in the network. Results on the PASCAL 2007 Object Detection Challenge demonstrate that up to 40% of units in some fully-connected layers can be entirely eliminated with little change in the detection result. |
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| Address | Puerto Rico; May 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | ICLR | ||
| Notes | LAMP; 600.068; 600.106; 600.079 | Approved | no | ||
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Admin @ si @MWB2016 | Serial | 2758 | ||
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| Author | Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes; Francisco Casacuberta; Lluis de Las Heras; Joan Mas; Moises Pastor; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Joan Andreu Sanchez; Enrique Vidal; Fernando Vilariño | ||||
| Title | Context, multimodality, and user collaboration in handwritten text processing: the CoMUN-HaT project | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 3rd IberSPEECH | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Processing of handwritten documents is a task that is of wide interest for many
purposes, such as those related to preserve cultural heritage. Handwritten text recognition techniques have been successfully applied during the last decade to obtain transcriptions of handwritten documents, and keyword spotting techniques have been applied for searching specific terms in image collections of handwritten documents. However, results on transcription and indexing are far from perfect. In this framework, the use of new data sources arises as a new paradigm that will allow for a better transcription and indexing of handwritten documents. Three main different data sources could be considered: context of the document (style, writer, historical time, topics,. . . ), multimodal data (representations of the document in a different modality, such as the speech signal of the dictation of the text), and user feedback (corrections, amendments,. . . ). The CoMUN-HaT project aims at the integration of these different data sources into the transcription and indexing task for handwritten documents: the use of context derived from the analysis of the documents, how multimodality can aid the recognition process to obtain more accurate transcriptions (including transcription in a modern version of the language), and integration into a userin-the-loop assisted text transcription framework. This will be reflected in the construction of a transcription and indexing platform that can be used by both professional and nonprofessional users, contributing to crowd-sourcing activities to preserve cultural heritage and to obtain an accessible version of the involved corpus. |
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| Address | Lisboa; Portugal; November 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | IberSPEECH | ||
| Notes | DAG; MV; 600.097;SIAI | Approved | no | ||
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Admin @ si @MLF2016 | Serial | 2813 | ||
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| Author | Joan M. Nuñez; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño | ||||
| Title | Growing Algorithm for Intersection Detection (GRAID) in branching patterns | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Machine Vision and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | MVAP |
| Volume | 26 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 387-400 |
| Keywords | Bifurcation ; Crossroad; Intersection ;Retina ; Vessel | ||||
| Abstract | Analysis of branching structures represents a very important task in fields such as medical diagnosis, road detection or biometrics. Detecting intersection landmarks Becomes crucial when capturing the structure of a branching pattern. We present a very simple geometrical model to describe intersections in branching structures based on two conditions: Bounded Tangency condition (BT) and Shortest Branch (SB) condition. The proposed model precisely sets a geometrical characterization of intersections and allows us to introduce a new unsupervised operator for intersection extraction. We propose an implementation that handles the consequences of digital domain operation that,unlike existing approaches, is not restricted to a particular scale and does not require the computation of the thinned pattern. The new proposal, as well as other existing approaches in the bibliography, are evaluated in a common framework for the first time. The performance analysis is based on two manually segmented image data sets: DRIVE retinal image database and COLON-VESSEL data set, a newly created data set of vascular content in colonoscopy frames. We have created an intersection landmark ground truth for each data set besides comparing our method in the only existing ground truth. Quantitative results confirm that we are able to outperform state-of-the-art performancelevels with the advantage that neither training nor parameter tuning is needed. | ||||
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Admin @ si @MBS2015 | Serial | 2777 | ||
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| Author | Aniol Lidon; Xavier Giro; Marc Bolaños; Petia Radeva; Markus Seidl; Matthias Zeppelzauer | ||||
| Title | UPC-UB-STP @ MediaEval 2015 diversity task: iterative reranking of relevant images | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | 2015 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Images Task | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | This paper presents the results of the UPC-UB-STP team in the 2015 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Images Task. The goal of the challenge is to provide a ranked list of Flickr photos for a predefined set of queries. Our approach firstly generates a ranking of images based on a query-independent estimation of its relevance. Only top results are kept and iteratively re-ranked based on their intra-similarity to introduce diversity. | ||||
| Address | Wurzen; Germany; September 2015 | ||||
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Admin @ si @LGB2016 | Serial | 2793 | ||
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| Author | Svebor Karaman; Giuseppe Lisanti; Andrew Bagdanov; Alberto del Bimbo | ||||
| Title | From re-identification to identity inference: Labeling consistency by local similarity constraints | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | Person Re-Identification | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | Pages | 287-307 | |
| Keywords | re-identification; Identity inference; Conditional random fields; Video surveillance | ||||
| Abstract | In this chapter, we introduce the problem of identity inference as a generalization of person re-identification. It is most appropriate to distinguish identity inference from re-identification in situations where a large number of observations must be identified without knowing a priori that groups of test images represent the same individual. The standard single- and multishot person re-identification common in the literature are special cases of our formulation. We present an approach to solving identity inference by modeling it as a labeling problem in a Conditional Random Field (CRF). The CRF model ensures that the final labeling gives similar labels to detections that are similar in feature space. Experimental results are given on the ETHZ, i-LIDS and CAVIAR datasets. Our approach yields state-of-the-art performance for multishot re-identification, and our results on the more general identity inference problem demonstrate that we are able to infer the identity of very many examples even with very few labeled images in the gallery. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer London | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 2191-6586 | ISBN | 978-1-4471-6295-7 | Medium | |
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| Notes | LAMP; 600.079 | Approved | no | ||
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Admin @ si @KLB2014b | Serial | 2521 | ||
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| Author | Jean-Pascal Jacob; Mariella Dimiccoli; L. Moisan | ||||
| Title | Active skeleton for bacteria modelling | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2017 | Publication | Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization | Abbreviated Journal | CMBBE |
| Volume | 5 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 274-286 |
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| Abstract | The investigation of spatio-temporal dynamics of bacterial cells and their molecular components requires automated image analysis tools to track cell shape properties and molecular component locations inside the cells. In the study of bacteria aging, the molecular components of interest are protein aggregates accumulated near bacteria boundaries. This particular location makes very ambiguous the correspondence between aggregates and cells, since computing accurately bacteria boundaries in phase-contrast time-lapse imaging is a challenging task. This paper proposes an active skeleton formulation for bacteria modelling which provides several advantages: an easy computation of shape properties (perimeter, length, thickness and orientation), an improved boundary accuracy in noisy images and a natural bacteria-centred coordinate system that permits the intrinsic location of molecular components inside the cell. Starting from an initial skeleton estimate, the medial axis of the bacterium is obtained by minimising an energy function which incorporates bacteria shape constraints. Experimental results on biological images and comparative evaluation of the performances validate the proposed approach for modelling cigar-shaped bacteria like Escherichia coli. The Image-J plugin of the proposed method can be found online at http://fluobactracker.inrialpes.fr. | ||||
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Admin @ si @JDM2017 | Serial | 2784 | ||
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| Author | Jaume Gibert; Ernest Valveny; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Horst Bunke | ||||
| Title | Multiple Classifiers for Graph of Words Embedding | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | 10th International Conference on Multiple Classifier Systems | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 6713 | Issue | Pages | 36-45 | |
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| Abstract | During the last years, there has been an increasing interest in applying the multiple classifier framework to the domain of structural pattern recognition. Constructing base classifiers when the input patterns are graph based representations is not an easy problem. In this work, we make use of the graph embedding methodology in order to construct different feature vector representations for graphs. The graph of words embedding assigns a feature vector to every graph by counting unary and binary relations between node representatives and combining these pieces of information into a single vector. Selecting different node representatives leads to different vectorial representations and therefore to different base classifiers that can be combined. We experimentally show how this methodology significantly improves the classification of graphs with respect to single base classifiers. | ||||
| Address | Napoles, Italy | ||||
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | Carlo Sansone; Josef Kittler; Fabio Roli | ||
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| Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | LNCS | ||
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-3-642-21556-8 | Medium | ||
| Area | Expedition | Conference | MCS | ||
| Notes | DAG | Approved | no | ||
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Admin @ si @GVR2011 | Serial | 1745 | ||
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| Author | Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Jorge Bernal; Cristina Rodriguez de Miguel; Debora Gil; Fernando Vilariño; Henry Cordova; Cristina Sanchez Montes; Isis Ara | ||||
| Title | Utilidad de la visión por computador para la localización de pólipos pequeños y planos | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | XIX Reunión Nacional de la Asociación Española de Gastroenterología, Gastroenterology Hepatology | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 39 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 94 |
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| Address | Madrid (Spain) | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | AEGASTRO | ||
| Notes | MV; IAM; 600.097;SIAI | Approved | no | ||
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Admin @ si @FBR2016 | Serial | 2779 | ||
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| Author | Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Jorge Bernal; Maria Lopez Ceron; Henry Cordova; Cristina Sanchez Montes; Cristina Rodriguez de Miguel; F. Javier Sanchez | ||||
| Title | Exploring the clinical potential of an automatic colonic polyp detection method based on the creation of energy maps | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Endoscopy | Abbreviated Journal | END |
| Volume | 48 | Issue | 9 | Pages | 837-842 |
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| Abstract | Background and aims: Polyp miss-rate is a drawback of colonoscopy that increases significantly in small polyps. We explored the efficacy of an automatic computer vision method for polyp detection.
Methods: Our method relies on a model that defines polyp boundaries as valleys of image intensity. Valley information is integrated into energy maps which represent the likelihood of polyp presence. Results: In 24 videos containing polyps from routine colonoscopies, all polyps were detected in at least one frame. Mean values of the maximum of energy map were higher in frames with polyps than without (p<0.001). Performance improved in high quality frames (AUC= 0.79, 95%CI: 0.70-0.87 vs 0.75, 95%CI: 0.66-0.83). Using 3.75 as maximum threshold value, sensitivity and specificity for detection of polyps were 70.4% (95%CI: 60.3-80.8) and 72.4% (95%CI: 61.6-84.6), respectively. Conclusion: Energy maps showed a good performance for colonic polyp detection. This indicates a potential applicability in clinical practice. |
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Admin @ si @FBL2016 | Serial | 2778 | ||
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| Author | Mariella Dimiccoli; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Lifelogging in the era of outstanding digitization | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | In this paper, we give an overview on the emerging trend of the digitized self, focusing on visual lifelogging through wearable cameras. This is about continuously recording our life from a first-person view by wearing a camera that passively captures images. On one hand, visual lifelogging has opened the door to a large number of applications, including health. On the other, it has also boosted new challenges in the field of data analysis as well as new ethical concerns. While currently increasing efforts are being devoted to exploit lifelogging data for the improvement of personal well-being, we believe there are still many interesting applications to explore, ranging from tourism to the digitization of human behavior. | ||||
| Address | Verliko Tarmovo; Bulgaria; September 2015 | ||||
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Admin @ si @DiR2016 | Serial | 2792 | ||
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| Author | Mariella Dimiccoli | ||||
| Title | Fundamentals of cone regression | Type | Journal | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Journal of Statistics Surveys | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 10 | Issue | Pages | 53-99 | |
| Keywords | cone regression; linear complementarity problems; proximal operators. | ||||
| Abstract | Cone regression is a particular case of quadratic programming that minimizes a weighted sum of squared residuals under a set of linear inequality constraints. Several important statistical problems such as isotonic, concave regression or ANOVA under partial orderings, just to name a few, can be considered as particular instances of the cone regression problem. Given its relevance in Statistics, this paper aims to address the fundamentals of cone regression from a theoretical and practical point of view. Several formulations of the cone regression problem are considered and, focusing on the particular case of concave regression as an example, several algorithms are analyzed and compared both qualitatively and quantitatively through numerical simulations. Several improvements to enhance numerical stability and bound the computational cost are proposed. For each analyzed algorithm, the pseudo-code and its corresponding code in Matlab are provided. The results from this study demonstrate that the choice of the optimization approach strongly impacts the numerical performances. It is also shown that methods are not currently available to solve efficiently cone regression problems with large dimension (more than many thousands of points). We suggest further research to fill this gap by exploiting and adapting classical multi-scale strategy to compute an approximate solution. | ||||
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| ISSN | 1935-7516 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Admin @ si @Dim2016a | Serial | 2783 | ||
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| Author | Mariella Dimiccoli; Benoît Girard; Alain Berthoz; Daniel Bennequin | ||||
| Title | Striola Magica: a functional explanation of otolith organs | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Journal of Computational Neuroscience | Abbreviated Journal | JCN |
| Volume | 35 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 125-154 |
| Keywords | Otolith organs ;Striola; Vestibular pathway | ||||
| Abstract | Otolith end organs of vertebrates sense linear accelerations of the head and gravitation. The hair cells on their epithelia are responsible for transduction. In mammals, the striola, parallel to the line where hair cells reverse their polarization, is a narrow region centered on a curve with curvature and torsion. It has been shown that the striolar region is functionally different from the rest, being involved in a phasic vestibular pathway. We propose a mathematical and computational model that explains the necessity of this amazing geometry for the striola to be able to carry out its function. Our hypothesis, related to the biophysics of the hair cells and to the physiology of their afferent neurons, is that striolar afferents collect information from several type I hair cells to detect the jerk in a large domain of acceleration directions. This predicts a mean number of two calyces for afferent neurons, as measured in rodents. The domain of acceleration directions sensed by our striolar model is compatible with the experimental results obtained on monkeys considering all afferents. Therefore, the main result of our study is that phasic and tonic vestibular afferents cover the same geometrical fields, but at different dynamical and frequency domains. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer US | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 1573-6873. 2013 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Admin @ si @DBG2013 | Serial | 2787 | ||
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| Author | A.S. Coquel; Jean-Pascal Jacob; M. Primet; A. Demarez; Mariella Dimiccoli; T. Julou; L. Moisan; A. Lindner; H. Berry | ||||
| Title | Localization of protein aggregation in Escherichia coli is governed by diffusion and nucleoid macromolecular crowding effect | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Plos Computational Biology | Abbreviated Journal | PCB |
| Volume | 9 | Issue | 4 | Pages | |
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| Abstract | Aggregates of misfolded proteins are a hallmark of many age-related diseases. Recently, they have been linked to aging of Escherichia coli (E. coli) where protein aggregates accumulate at the old pole region of the aging bacterium. Because of the potential of E. coli as a model organism, elucidating aging and protein aggregation in this bacterium may pave the way to significant advances in our global understanding of aging. A first obstacle along this path is to decipher the mechanisms by which protein aggregates are targeted to specific intercellular locations. Here, using an integrated approach based on individual-based modeling, time-lapse fluorescence microscopy and automated image analysis, we show that the movement of aging-related protein aggregates in E. coli is purely diffusive (Brownian). Using single-particle tracking of protein aggregates in live E. coli cells, we estimated the average size and diffusion constant of the aggregates. Our results provide evidence that the aggregates passively diffuse within the cell, with diffusion constants that depend on their size in agreement with the Stokes-Einstein law. However, the aggregate displacements along the cell long axis are confined to a region that roughly corresponds to the nucleoid-free space in the cell pole, thus confirming the importance of increased macromolecular crowding in the nucleoids. We thus used 3D individual-based modeling to show that these three ingredients (diffusion, aggregation and diffusion hindrance in the nucleoids) are sufficient and necessary to reproduce the available experimental data on aggregate localization in the cells. Taken together, our results strongly support the hypothesis that the localization of aging-related protein aggregates in the poles of E. coli results from the coupling of passive diffusion-aggregation with spatially non-homogeneous macromolecular crowding. They further support the importance of “soft” intracellular structuring (based on macromolecular crowding) in diffusion-based protein localization in E. coli. | ||||
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | : Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University, United States of America | ||
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Admin @ si @CJP2013 | Serial | 2786 | ||
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