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Cell Biophys
1991 Jun 01;183:279-93. doi: 10.1007/bf02989819.
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Acoustic microscopy of cultured cells. Distribution of forces and cytoskeletal elements.
Lüers H
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Hillmann K
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Litniewski J
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Bereiter-Hahn J
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The scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) allows one to measure mechanical parameters of living cells with high lateral resolution. By analyzing single acoustic images' sound attenuation and sound velocity, the latter corresponding to stiffness (elasticity) of the cortical cytoplasm can be determined. In this study, measurements of stiffness distribution in XTH-2 cells were compared with the organization of F-actin and microtubules. Single XTH-2 cells exhibit relatively high stiffness at the free margins; toward the cell center this value decreases and reaches a sudden minimum where the slope of the surface topography enlargens at the margin of the dome-shaped cell center. The steepness of the increase in slope is linearly related to the decrease in sound velocity at this site. Thus, a significant determinant of cell shape is paralleled by an alteration of stiffness. In the most central parts, no interferences could be distinguished, therefore, this region had to be excluded from the calculations. Stiffness distribution roughly coincided with the distribution of F-actin, but no correlation to microtubule arrangement was found. Following the treatment of XTH-2 cells with ionomycin in the presence of calcium (in the culture medium), the cell cortex first contracted as indicated by shape changes and by a marked increase in stiffness (deduced from sound velocity). This contraction phase was followed by a phase of microtubule and F-actin disassembly. Concomittantly, sound velocity decreased considerably, indicating the loss of elasticity in the cell cortex. No structural equivalent to sound attenuation has been identified.
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