TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Intracellular Viscosity in Conditions of Hypergravity
AU - Woodcock, Emma M.
AU - Girvan, Paul
AU - Eckert, Julia
AU - Lopez-Duarte, Ismael
AU - Kubánková, Markéta
AU - van Loon, Jack J. W. A.
AU - Brooks, Nicholas J.
AU - Kuimova, Marina K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Alan Dowson (European Space Agency Technology Centre, Noordwijk, the Netherlands) for technical support. J.E. thanks Jens-Uwe Sommer (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden). The authors acknowledge the Spin Your Thesis! 2017 campaign, organized by European Space Agency Education , for supporting this research and European Space Agency grant/contract 4000107455/12/NL/PA awarded to J.J.W.A.v.L. M.K.K. is grateful to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the Career Acceleration Fellowship ( EP/I003983/1 ). N.J.B. is grateful to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the support of program grant EP/J017566/1 .
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Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/5/21
Y1 - 2019/5/21
N2 - Gravity-sensitive cellular responses are regularly observed in both specialized and nonspecialized cells. One potential mechanism for this sensitivity is a changing viscosity of the intracellular organelles. Here, we report a novel, to our knowledge, viscosity-sensitive molecular rotor based on mesosubstituted boron-dipyrrin used to investigate the response of viscosity of cellular membranes to hypergravity conditions created at the large diameter centrifuge at the European Space Agency Technology Centre. Mouse osteoblastic (MC3T3-E1) and endothelial (human umbilical vein endothelial cell) cell lines were tested, and an increase in viscosity was found with increasing hypergravity loading. This response is thought to be primarily biologically driven, with the potential for a small, instantaneous physical mechanism also contributing to the observed effect. This work provides the first, to our knowledge, quantitative data for cellular viscosity changes under hypergravity, up to 15 × g.
AB - Gravity-sensitive cellular responses are regularly observed in both specialized and nonspecialized cells. One potential mechanism for this sensitivity is a changing viscosity of the intracellular organelles. Here, we report a novel, to our knowledge, viscosity-sensitive molecular rotor based on mesosubstituted boron-dipyrrin used to investigate the response of viscosity of cellular membranes to hypergravity conditions created at the large diameter centrifuge at the European Space Agency Technology Centre. Mouse osteoblastic (MC3T3-E1) and endothelial (human umbilical vein endothelial cell) cell lines were tested, and an increase in viscosity was found with increasing hypergravity loading. This response is thought to be primarily biologically driven, with the potential for a small, instantaneous physical mechanism also contributing to the observed effect. This work provides the first, to our knowledge, quantitative data for cellular viscosity changes under hypergravity, up to 15 × g.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.03.038
DO - 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.03.038
M3 - Article
C2 - 31053255
SN - 0006-3495
VL - 116
SP - 1984
EP - 1993
JO - Biophysical Journal
JF - Biophysical Journal
IS - 10
ER -