Living cells as a biological analog of optical tweezers-a non-invasive microrheology approach

被引:8
作者
Hardiman, William [1 ]
Clark, Matt [1 ]
Friel, Claire [2 ]
Huett, Alan [2 ]
Perez-Cota, Fernando [1 ]
Setchfield, Kerry [1 ]
Wright, Amanda J. [1 ]
Tassieri, Manlio [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nottingham, Fac Engn, Opt & Photon Res Grp, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
[2] Univ Nottingham, Sch Life Sci, Med Sch, QMC, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England
[3] Univ Glasgow, James Watt Sch Engn, Div Biomed Engn, Glasgow City G12 8LT, Scotland
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
Passive microrheology; Cytoskeleton; Cellular biomechanics; Optical tweezers; PARTICLE-TRACKING MICRORHEOLOGY; MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES; STREPTAVIDIN; DYNAMICS;
D O I
10.1016/j.actbio.2023.04.039
中图分类号
R318 [生物医学工程];
学科分类号
0831 ;
摘要
Microrheology, the study of fluids on micron length-scales, promises to reveal insights into cellular bi-ology, including mechanical biomarkers of disease and the interplay between biomechanics and cellular function. Here a minimally-invasive passive microrheology technique is applied to individual living cells by chemically binding a bead to the surface of a cell, and observing the mean squared displacement of the bead at timescales ranging from milliseconds to 100s of seconds. Measurements are repeated over the course of hours, and presented alongside analysis to quantify changes in the cells' low-frequency elastic modulus, G 0, and the cell's dynamics over the time window -10-2 s to 10 s. An analogy to op-tical trapping allows verification of the invariant viscosity of HeLa S3 cells under control conditions and after cytoskeletal disruption. Stiffening of the cell is observed during cytoskeletal rearrangement in the control case, and cell softening when the actin cytoskeleton is disrupted by Latrunculin B. These data correlate with conventional understanding that integrin binding and recruitment triggers cytoskeletal re -arrangement. This is, to our knowledge, the first time that cell stiffening has been measured during focal adhesion maturation, and the longest time over which such stiffening has been quantified by any means.Here, we present an approach for studying mechanical properties of live cells without applying external forces or inserting tracers. Regulation of cellular biomechanics is crucial to healthy cell function. For the first time in literature, we can non-invasively and passively quantify cell mechanics during interactions with functionalised surface. Our method can monitor the maturation of adhesion sites on the surface of individual live cells without disrupting the cell mechanics by applying forces to the cell. We observe a stiffening response in cells over tens of minutes after a bead chemically binds. This stiffening reduces the deformation rate of the cytoskeleton, although the internal force generation increases. Our method has potential for applications to study mechanics during cell-surface and cell-vesicle interactions.& COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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页码:317 / 325
页数:9
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