title: Automated analysis of a diverse synapse population.
abstract: Synapses of the mammalian central nervous system are highly diverse in function and molecular composition. Synapse diversity per se may be critical to brain function, since memory and homeostatic mechanisms are thought to be rooted primarily in activity-dependent plastic changes in specific subsets of individual synapses. Unfortunately, the measurement of synapse diversity has been restricted by the limitations of methods capable of measuring synapse properties at the level of individual synapses. Array tomography is a new high-resolution, high-throughput proteomic imaging method that has the potential to advance the measurement of unit-level synapse diversity across large and diverse synapse populations. Here we present an automated feature extraction and classification algorithm designed to quantify synapses from high-dimensional array tomographic data too voluminous for manual analysis. We demonstrate the use of this method to quantify laminar distributions of synapses in mouse somatosensory cortex and validate the classification process by detecting the presence of known but uncommon proteomic profiles. Such classification and quantification will be highly useful in identifying specific subpopulations of synapses exhibiting plasticity in response to perturbations from the environment or the sensory periphery.
authors.affiliation: Biophysics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America. bbusse@gmail.com
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Busse
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D051379:Mice; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D015588:Observer Variation; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D020543:Proteome / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000737:chemistry; D013569:Synapses / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D014054:Tomography / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome
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