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Machine-learning-powered extraction of molecular diffusivity from single-molecule images for super-resolution mapping

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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04729-x

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This study presents a machine-learning-enabled approach called Pix2D, which extracts the diffusion coefficient D directly from single molecule images and enables high-resolution spatial mapping of D.
A machine-learning-enabled approach, pixels-to-diffusivity (Pix2D), directly extracts the diffusion coefficient D from single molecule images and enables super-resolved D spatial mapping. While critical to biological processes, molecular diffusion is difficult to quantify, and spatial mapping of local diffusivity is even more challenging. Here we report a machine-learning-enabled approach, pixels-to-diffusivity (Pix2D), to directly extract the diffusion coefficient D from single-molecule images, and consequently enable super-resolved D spatial mapping. Working with single-molecule images recorded at a fixed framerate under typical single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) conditions, Pix2D exploits the often undesired yet evident motion blur, i.e., the convolution of single-molecule motion trajectory during the frame recording time with the diffraction-limited point spread function (PSF) of the microscope. Whereas the stochastic nature of diffusion imprints diverse diffusion trajectories to different molecules diffusing at the same given D, we construct a convolutional neural network (CNN) model that takes a stack of single-molecule images as the input and evaluates a D-value as the output. We thus validate robust D evaluation and spatial mapping with simulated data, and with experimental data successfully characterize D differences for supported lipid bilayers of different compositions and resolve gel and fluidic phases at the nanoscale.

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