The plant endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of tubules connected by three-way junctions or sheet-like cisternae. Although the network is three-dimensional, in many plant cells, it is constrained to a thin volume sandwiched between the vacuole and plasma membrane, effectively restricting it to a 2-D planar network. The structure of the network, and the morphology of the tubules and cisternae can be automatically extracted following intensity-independent edge-enhancement and various segmentation techniques to give an initial pixel-based skeleton, which is then converted to a graph representation. Collectively, this approach yields a wealth of quantitative metrics for ER structure and can be used to describe the effects of pharmacological treatments or genetic manipulation. The software is publicly available.
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Fricker, M., Heaton, L., Jones, N., Obara, B., Müller, S. J., & Meyer, A. J. (2018). Quantitation of ER structure and function. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1691, pp. 43–66). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7389-7_5
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