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5 October 2015 Noise, fluctuations, and nonlinear mechanical properties of living cells (Presentation Recording)
H. Daniel Ou-Yang, Ming Tzo Wei, Dimitrios Vavylonis, Sabrina Jedlicka
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Proceedings Volume 9548, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XII; 95481K (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2191393
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2015, San Diego, California, United States
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Living cells are a non-equilibrium mechanical system, largely because intracellular molecular motors consume chemical energy to generate forces that reorganize and maintain cytoskeletal functions. Persistently under tension, the network of cytoskeletal proteins exhibits a nonlinear mechanical behavior where the network stiffness increases with intracellular tension. We examined the nonlinear mechanical properties of living cells by characterizing the differential stiffness of the cytoskeletal network for HeLa cells under different intracellular tensions. Combining optical tweezer-based active and passive microrheology methods, we measured non-thermal fluctuating forces and found them to be much larger than the thermal fluctuating force. From the variations of differential stiffness caused by the fluctuating non-thermal force for cells under different tension, we obtained a master curve describing the differential stiffness as a function of the intracellular tension. Varying the intracellular tension by treating cells with drugs that alter motor protein activities we found the differential stiffness follows the same master curve that describes intracellular stiffness as a function of intracellular tension. This observation suggests that cells can regulate their mechanical properties by adjusting intracellular tension.
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H. Daniel Ou-Yang, Ming Tzo Wei, Dimitrios Vavylonis, and Sabrina Jedlicka "Noise, fluctuations, and nonlinear mechanical properties of living cells (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9548, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XII, 95481K (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2191393
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KEYWORDS
Proteins
Active optics
Thermography
Complex systems
Current controlled current source
Optical micromanipulation
Optical tweezers
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