Robust integrated intracellular organization of the human iPS cell: where, how much, and how variable
Summary
Despite the intimate link between cell organization and function, the principles underlying intracellular organization and the relation between organization, gene expression and phenotype are not well understood. We address this by creating a benchmark for mean cell organization and the natural range of cell-to-cell variation. This benchmark can be used for comparison to other normal or abnormal cell states. To do this, we developed a reproducible microscope imaging pipeline to generate a high-quality dataset of 3D, high-resolution images of over 200,000 live cells from 25 isogenic human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines from the Allen Cell Collection. Each line contains one fluorescently tagged protein, created via endogenous CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, representing a key cellular structure or organelle. We used these images to develop a new multi-part and generalizable analysis approach of the locations, amounts, and variation of these 25 cellular structures. Taking an integrated approach, we found that both the extent to which a structure’s individual location varied (“stereotypy”) and the extent to which the structure localized relative to all the other cellular structures (“concordance”) were robust to a wide range of cell shape variation, from flatter to taller, smaller to larger, or less to more polarized cells. We also found that these cellular structures varied greatly in how their volumes scaled with cell and nuclear size. These analyses create a data-driven set of quantitative rules for the locations, amounts, and variation of 25 cellular structures within the hiPSC as a normal baseline for cell organization.
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
Footnotes
This version includes updates to the analysis dataset and analysis results due to some adjustments in the analysis code. Biological conclusions were not affected. Figures remained the same. The numbers of cells used in the analysis, and thus the values of the analysis data points, changed slightly. The text was edited mildly to reflect these changes and fix typos.
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