| Title | A regression model approach to enable cell morphology correction in high-throughput flow cytometry |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Knijnenburg TA, Roda O, Wan Y, Nolan GP, Aitchison JD, Shmulevich I |
| Journal | Molecular systems biology |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pagination | 531 |
| Type of Article | Research Support, N.I.H., ExtramuralResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| PubMed Central ID | 3202802 |
| PMID | 21952134 |
| Abstract | Cells exposed to stimuli exhibit a wide range of responses ensuring phenotypic variability across the population. Such single cell behavior is often examined by flow cytometry; however, gating procedures typically employed to select a small subpopulation of cells with similar morphological characteristics make it difficult, even impossible, to quantitatively compare cells across a large variety of experimental conditions because these conditions can lead to profound morphological variations. To overcome these limitations, we developed a regression approach to correct for variability in fluorescence intensity due to differences in cell size and granularity without discarding any of the cells, which gating ipso facto does. This approach enables quantitative studies of cellular heterogeneity and transcriptional noise in high-throughput experiments involving thousands of samples. We used this approach to analyze a library of yeast knockout strains and reveal genes required for the population to establish a bimodal response to oleic acid induction. We identify a group of epigenetic regulators and nucleoporins that, by maintaining an 'unresponsive population,' may provide the population with the advantage of diversified bet hedging. |
| Short Title | Mol Syst BiolMol Syst Biol |
| Alternate Journal | Mol Syst Biol |
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