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Forces between clustered stereocilia minimize friction in the ear on a subnanometre scale

KOZLOV, Andrei S ; BAUMGART, Johannes ; RISLER, Thomas ; VERSTEEGH, Corstiaen P. C ; HUDSPETH, A. J

Nature (London), 2011-05, Vol.474 (7351), p.376-379 [Periódico revisado por pares]

London: Nature Publishing Group

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Forces between clustered stereocilia minimize friction in the ear on a subnanometre scale
Autor: KOZLOV, Andrei S ; BAUMGART, Johannes ; RISLER, Thomas ; VERSTEEGH, Corstiaen P. C ; HUDSPETH, A. J
Assuntos: Animals ; Atomic properties ; Biological and medical sciences ; Biological Physics ; bundle ; Cilia - physiology ; Cilia and ciliary motion ; coherent motion ; Computational Physics ; Finite Element Analysis ; Fluid Dynamics ; Fourier analysis ; Friction - physiology ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; Hair ; hair cell stereocilia ; Hair cells (Mechanoreceptors) ; Hair Cells, Auditory - cytology ; Hair Cells, Auditory - physiology ; mechanical amplification ; Mechanical properties ; Mechanotransduction, Cellular - physiology ; membrane ; Models, Biological ; Observations ; Partial differential equations ; Physics ; Physiological research ; Rana catesbeiana - physiology ; Reynolds number ; Scanning electron microscopy ; Stochastic Processes ; Structure ; Studies ; transduction channels ; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs ; Viscosity ; Viscous flow
É parte de: Nature (London), 2011-05, Vol.474 (7351), p.376-379
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Descrição: The detection of sound begins when energy derived from an acoustic stimulus deflects the hair bundles on top of hair cells. As hair bundles move, the viscous friction between stereocilia and the surrounding liquid poses a fundamental physical challenge to the ear's high sensitivity and sharp frequency selectivity. Part of the solution to this problem lies in the active process that uses energy for frequency-selective sound amplification. Here we demonstrate that a complementary part of the solution involves the fluid-structure interaction between the liquid within the hair bundle and the stereocilia. Using force measurement on a dynamically scaled model, finite-element analysis, analytical estimation of hydrodynamic forces, stochastic simulation and high-resolution interferometric measurement of hair bundles, we characterize the origin and magnitude of the forces between individual stereocilia during small hair-bundle deflections. We find that the close apposition of stereocilia effectively immobilizes the liquid between them, which reduces the drag and suppresses the relative squeezing but not the sliding mode of stereociliary motion. The obliquely oriented tip links couple the mechanotransduction channels to this least dissipative coherent mode, whereas the elastic horizontal top connectors that stabilize the structure further reduce the drag. As measured from the distortion products associated with channel gating at physiological stimulation amplitudes of tens of nanometres, the balance of viscous and elastic forces in a hair bundle permits a relative mode of motion between adjacent stereocilia that encompasses only a fraction of a nanometre. A combination of high-resolution experiments and detailed numerical modelling of fluid-structure interactions reveals the physical principles behind the basic structural features of hair bundles and shows quantitatively how these organelles are adapted to the needs of sensitive mechanotransduction.
Editor: London: Nature Publishing Group
Idioma: Inglês

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Forces between clustered stereocilia minimize friction in the ear on a subnanometre scale

KOZLOV, Andrei S ; BAUMGART, Johannes ; RISLER, Thomas ; VERSTEEGH, Corstiaen P. C ; HUDSPETH, A. J

London: Nature Publishing Group

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