Experimental determination of refractive index of condensed reflectin in squid iridocytes

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作者
Ghoshal, Amitabh [1 ]
DeMartini, Daniel G. [1 ,2 ]
Eck, Elizabeth [2 ]
Morse, Daniel E. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Inst Collaborat Biotechnol, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Biomol Sci & Engn Program, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Doryteuthis opalescens; reflectin; refractive index; Bragg structure; iridophore; iridocyte; PHYSIOLOGICAL COLOR-CHANGE; POLARIZED-LIGHT; LOLLIGUNCULA-BREVIS; CEPHALOPODS; IRIDOPHORES; IRIDESCENCE; SKIN; CHROMATOPHORES; MECHANISMS; PROTEIN;
D O I
10.1098/rsif.2014.0106
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Loliginid squid dynamically tune the structural iridescence of cells in their skin for active camouflage and communication. Bragg reflectors in these cells consist of membrane-bound lamellae periodically alternating with low refractive index extracellular spaces; neuronal signalling induces condensation of the reflectin proteins that fill the lamellae, consequently triggering the expulsion of water. This causes an increase in refractive index within the lamellae, activating reflectance, with the change in lamellar thickness and spacing progressively shifting the wavelength of reflected light. We used microspectrophotometry to measure the functionally relevant refractive index of the high-index lamellae of the Bragg reflectors containing the condensed reflectins in chemically fixed dermal iridocytes of the squid, Doryteuthis opalescens. Our high-magnification imaging spectrometer allowed us to obtain normalized spectra of optically distinct sections of the individual, subcellular, multi-layer Bragg stacks. Replacement of the extracellular fluid with liquids of increasing refractive index allowed us to measure the reflectivity of the Bragg stacks as it decreased progressively to 0 when the refractive index of the extracellular medium exactly matched that of the reflectin-filled lamellae, thus allowing us to directly measure the refractive index of the reflectin-filled lamellae as n(condensed lamellae) approximate to 1.44. The measured value of the physiologically relevant n(condensed lamellae) from these bright iridocytes falls within the range of values that we recently determined by an independent optical method and is significantly lower than values previously reported for dehydrated and air-dried reflectin films. We propose that this directly measured value for the refractive index of the squid's Bragg lamellae containing the condensed reflectins is most appropriate for calculations of reflectivity in similar reflectin-based high-index layers in other molluscs.
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