Detecting structural heterogeneity in single-molecule localization microscopy data.

Huijben, Teun A P M; Heydarian, Hamidreza; Auer, Alexander; Schueder, Florian; Jungmann, Ralf; Stallinga, Sjoerd; Rieger, Bernd · Nat Commun · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Particle fusion for single molecule localization microscopy improves signal-to-noise ratio and overcomes underlabeling, but ignores structural heterogeneity or conformational variability. We present a-priori knowledge-free unsupervised classification of structurally different particles employing the Bhattacharya cost function as dissimilarity metric. We achieve 96% classification accuracy on mixtures of up to four different DNA-origami structures, detect rare classes of origami occuring at 2% rate, and capture variation in ellipticity of nuclear pore complexes.

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