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Asadzadeh SS, Kiørboe T, Larsen PS, Leys SP, Yahel G, Walther JH. Hydrodynamics of sponge pumps and evolution of the sponge body plan. eLife 2020; 9:e61012. [PMID: 33252039 PMCID: PMC7755389 DOI: 10.7554/elife.61012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Sponges are suspension feeders that filter vast amounts of water. Pumping is carried out by flagellated chambers that are connected to an inhalant and exhalant canal system. In 'leucon' sponges with relatively high-pressure resistance due to a complex and narrow canal system, pumping and filtering are only possible owing to the presence of a gasket-like structure (forming a canopy above the collar filters). Here, we combine numerical and experimental work and demonstrate how sponges that lack such sealing elements are able to efficiently pump and force the flagella-driven flow through their collar filter, thanks to the formation of a 'hydrodynamic gasket' above the collar. Our findings link the architecture of flagellated chambers to that of the canal system, and lend support to the current view that the sponge aquiferous system evolved from an open-type filtration system, and that the first metazoans were filter feeders.
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- Seyed Saeed Asadzadeh
- National Institute of Aquatic Resources and Centre for Ocean Life, Technical University of DenmarkLyngbyDenmark
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- National Institute of Aquatic Resources and Centre for Ocean Life, Technical University of DenmarkLyngbyDenmark
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of DenmarkLyngbyDenmark
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW 405 Biological Sciences BuildingEdmontonCanada
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- The Faculty of Marine Science, Ruppin Academic CenterMichmoretIsrael
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of DenmarkLyngbyDenmark
- Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZürichZürichSwitzerland
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Swimming microorganisms acquire optimal efficiency with multiple cilia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:30201-30207. [PMID: 33199601 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011146117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Planktonic microorganisms are ubiquitous in water, and their population dynamics are essential for forecasting the behavior of global aquatic ecosystems. Their population dynamics are strongly affected by these organisms' motility, which is generated by their hair-like organelles, called cilia or flagella. However, because of the complexity of ciliary dynamics, the precise role of ciliary flow in microbial life remains unclear. Here, we have used ciliary hydrodynamics to show that ciliates acquire the optimal propulsion efficiency. We found that ciliary flow highly resists an organism's propulsion and that the swimming velocity rapidly decreases with body size, proportional to the power of minus two. Accordingly, the propulsion efficiency decreases as the cube of body length. By increasing the number of cilia, however, efficiency can be significantly improved, up to 100-fold. We found that there exists an optimal number density of cilia, which provides the maximum propulsion efficiency for all ciliates. The propulsion efficiency in this case decreases inversely proportionally to body length. Our estimated optimal density of cilia corresponds to those of actual microorganisms, including species of ciliates and microalgae, which suggests that now-existing motile ciliates and microalgae have survived by acquiring the optimal propulsion efficiency. These conclusions are helpful for better understanding the ecology of microorganisms, such as the energetic costs and benefits of multicellularity in Volvocaceae, as well as for the optimal design of artificial microswimmers.
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Mannan FO, Jarvela M, Leiderman K. Minimal model of the hydrodynamical coupling of flagella on a spherical body with application to Volvox. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:033114. [PMID: 33075899 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.033114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Flagella are hairlike appendages attached to microorganisms that allow the organisms to traverse their fluid environment. The algae Volvox are spherical swimmers with thousands of individual flagella on their surface, and their coordination is not fully understood. In this work, a previously developed minimal model of flagella synchronization is extended to the outer surface of a sphere submerged in a fluid. Each beating flagellum tip is modeled as a small sphere, elastically bound to a circular orbit just above the spherical surface and a regularized image system for Stokes flow outside of a sphere is used to enforce the no-slip condition. Biologically relevant distributions of rotors results in a rapidly developing and robust symplectic metachronal wave traveling from the anterior to the posterior of the spherical Volvox body.
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- Forest O Mannan
- Mathematics & Computer Science Department, Western Colorado University, 1 Western Way, Gunnison, Colorado 81231, USA
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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Colin SP, Costello JH, Sutherland KR, Gemmell BJ, Dabiri JO, Du Clos KT. The role of suction thrust in the metachronal paddles of swimming invertebrates. Sci Rep 2020; 10:17790. [PMID: 33082456 PMCID: PMC7576154 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74745-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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An abundance of swimming animals have converged upon a common swimming strategy using multiple propulsors coordinated as metachronal waves. The shared kinematics suggest that even morphologically and systematically diverse animals use similar fluid dynamic relationships to generate swimming thrust. We quantified the kinematics and hydrodynamics of a diverse group of small swimming animals who use multiple propulsors, e.g. limbs or ctenes, which move with antiplectic metachronal waves to generate thrust. Here we show that even at these relatively small scales the bending movements of limbs and ctenes conform to the patterns observed for much larger swimming animals. We show that, like other swimming animals, the propulsors of these metachronal swimmers rely on generating negative pressure along their surfaces to generate forward thrust (i.e., suction thrust). Relying on negative pressure, as opposed to high pushing pressure, facilitates metachronal waves and enables these swimmers to exploit readily produced hydrodynamic structures. Understanding the role of negative pressure fields in metachronal swimmers may provide clues about the hydrodynamic traits shared by swimming and flying animals.
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- Sean P Colin
- Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, 02809, USA. .,Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA.
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- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA.,Providence College, Providence, RI, 02918, USA
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- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
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Um E, Kim M, Kim H, Kang JH, Stone HA, Jeong J. Phase synchronization of fluid-fluid interfaces as hydrodynamically coupled oscillators. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5221. [PMID: 33060604 PMCID: PMC7562928 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18930-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Hydrodynamic interactions play a role in synchronized motions of coupled oscillators in fluids, and understanding the mechanism will facilitate development of applications in fluid mechanics. For example, synchronization phenomenon in two-phase flow will benefit the design of future microfluidic devices, allowing spatiotemporal control of microdroplet generation without additional integration of control elements. In this work, utilizing a characteristic oscillation of adjacent interfaces between two immiscible fluids in a microfluidic platform, we discover that the system can act as a coupled oscillator, notably showing spontaneous in-phase synchronization of droplet breakup. With this observation of in-phase synchronization, the coupled droplet generator exhibits a complete set of modes of coupled oscillators, including out-of-phase synchronization and nonsynchronous modes. We present a theoretical model to elucidate how a negative feedback mechanism, tied to the distance between the interfaces, induces the in-phase synchronization. We also identify the criterion for the transition from in-phase to out-of-phase oscillations. The robust production of droplets by microfluidic T-junctions is a well-established technique. Um et al. demonstrate how the mutual interaction between droplets can be used to achieve additional control including the simultaneous release of droplets caused by synchronization phenomena.
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- Eujin Um
- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea.
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Man Y, Kanso E. Multisynchrony in Active Microfilaments. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:148101. [PMID: 33064515 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.148101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Biological microfilaments exhibit a variety of synchronization modes. Recent experiments observed that a pair of isolated eukaryotic flagella, coupled solely via the fluid medium, display synchrony at nontrivial phase lags in addition to in-phase and antiphase synchrony. Using an elastohydrodynamic filament model in conjunction with numerical simulations and a Floquet-type theoretical analysis, we demonstrate that it is possible to reach multiple synchronization states by varying the intrinsic activity of the filament and the strength of hydrodynamic coupling between the two filaments. Then, we derive an evolution equation for the phase difference between the two filaments at weak coupling, and use a Kuramoto-style phase sensitivity analysis to reveal the nature of the bifurcations underlying the transitions between these different synchronized states.
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- Yi Man
- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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Thomazo JB, Lauga E, Le Révérend B, Wandersman E, Prevost AM. Collective stiffening of soft hair assemblies. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:010602. [PMID: 32795025 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.010602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Many living systems use assemblies of soft and slender structures whose deflections allow them to mechanically probe their immediate environment. In this work, we study the collective response of artificial soft hair assemblies to a shear flow by imaging their deflections. At all hair densities, the deflection is found to be proportional to the local shear stress with a proportionality factor that decreases with density. The measured collective stiffening of hairs is modeled both with a microscopic elastohydrodynamic model that takes into account long-range hydrodynamic hair-hair interactions and a phenomenological model that treats the hair assemblies as an effective porous medium. While the microscopic model is in reasonable agreement with the experiments at low hair density, the phenomenological model is found to be predictive across the entire density range.
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- Jean-Baptiste Thomazo
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France.,Nestlé Development Centre Lisieux, rue d'Orival, F-14100 Lisieux, France
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
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Gadêlha H, Hernández-Herrera P, Montoya F, Darszon A, Corkidi G. Human sperm uses asymmetric and anisotropic flagellar controls to regulate swimming symmetry and cell steering. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaba5168. [PMID: 32789171 PMCID: PMC7399739 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba5168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Flagellar beating drives sperm through the female reproductive tract and is vital for reproduction. Flagellar waves are generated by thousands of asymmetric molecular components; yet, paradoxically, forward swimming arises via symmetric side-to-side flagellar movement. This led to the preponderance of symmetric flagellar control hypotheses. However, molecular asymmetries must still dictate the flagellum and be manifested in the beat. Here, we reconcile molecular and microscopic observations, reconnecting structure to function, by showing that human sperm uses asymmetric and anisotropic controls to swim. High-speed three-dimensional (3D) microscopy revealed two coactive transversal controls: An asymmetric traveling wave creates a one-sided stroke, and a pulsating standing wave rotates the sperm to move equally on all sides. Symmetry is thus achieved through asymmetry, creating the optical illusion of bilateral symmetry in 2D microscopy. This shows that the sperm flagellum is asymmetrically controlled and anisotropically regularized by fast-signal transduction. This enables the sperm to swim forward.
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- Hermes Gadêlha
- Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1UB Bristol, UK
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- Laboratorio de Imágenes y Visión por Computadora, Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Imágenes y Visión por Computadora, Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética del Desarrollo y Fisiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Imágenes y Visión por Computadora, Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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Amador GJ, Wei D, Tam D, Aubin-Tam ME. Fibrous Flagellar Hairs of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Do Not Enhance Swimming. Biophys J 2020; 118:2914-2925. [PMID: 32502384 PMCID: PMC7300311 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The flagella of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii possess fibrous ultrastructures of a nanometer-scale thickness known as mastigonemes. These structures have been widely hypothesized to enhance flagellar thrust; however, detailed hydrodynamic analysis supporting this claim is lacking. In this study, we present a comprehensive investigation into the hydrodynamic effects of mastigonemes using a genetically modified mutant lacking the fibrous structures. Through high-speed observations of freely swimming cells, we found the average and maximum swimming speeds to be unaffected by the presence of mastigonemes. In addition to swimming speeds, no significant difference was found for flagellar gait kinematics. After our observations of swimming kinematics, we present direct measurements of the hydrodynamic forces generated by flagella with and without mastigonemes. These measurements were conducted using optical tweezers, which enabled high temporal and spatial resolution of hydrodynamic forces. Through our measurements, we found no significant difference in propulsive flows due to the presence of mastigonemes. Direct comparison between measurements and fluid mechanical modeling revealed that swimming hydrodynamics were accurately captured without including mastigonemes on the modeled swimmer's flagella. Therefore, mastigonemes do not appear to increase the flagella's effective area while swimming, as previously thought. Our results refute the longstanding claim that mastigonemes enhance flagellar thrust in C. reinhardtii, and so, their function still remains enigmatic.
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- Guillermo J Amador
- Laboratory for Aero and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands; Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Aero and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
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Gompper G, Winkler RG, Speck T, Solon A, Nardini C, Peruani F, Löwen H, Golestanian R, Kaupp UB, Alvarez L, Kiørboe T, Lauga E, Poon WCK, DeSimone A, Muiños-Landin S, Fischer A, Söker NA, Cichos F, Kapral R, Gaspard P, Ripoll M, Sagues F, Doostmohammadi A, Yeomans JM, Aranson IS, Bechinger C, Stark H, Hemelrijk CK, Nedelec FJ, Sarkar T, Aryaksama T, Lacroix M, Duclos G, Yashunsky V, Silberzan P, Arroyo M, Kale S. The 2020 motile active matter roadmap. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2020; 32:193001. [PMID: 32058979 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab6348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This has stimulated the new field of 'active matter' in recent years, which focuses on the physical aspects of propulsion mechanisms, and on motility-induced emergent collective behavior of a larger number of identical agents. The scale of agents ranges from nanomotors and microswimmers, to cells, fish, birds, and people. Inspired by biological microswimmers, various designs of autonomous synthetic nano- and micromachines have been proposed. Such machines provide the basis for multifunctional, highly responsive, intelligent (artificial) active materials, which exhibit emergent behavior and the ability to perform tasks in response to external stimuli. A major challenge for understanding and designing active matter is their inherent nonequilibrium nature due to persistent energy consumption, which invalidates equilibrium concepts such as free energy, detailed balance, and time-reversal symmetry. Unraveling, predicting, and controlling the behavior of active matter is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor at the interface of biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The vast complexity of phenomena and mechanisms involved in the self-organization and dynamics of motile active matter comprises a major challenge. Hence, to advance, and eventually reach a comprehensive understanding, this important research area requires a concerted, synergetic approach of the various disciplines. The 2020 motile active matter roadmap of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter addresses the current state of the art of the field and provides guidance for both students as well as established scientists in their efforts to advance this fascinating area.
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- Gerhard Gompper
- Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute of Complex Systems and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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Cilia and centrosomes: Ultrastructural and mechanical perspectives. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2020; 110:61-69. [PMID: 32307225 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2020.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cilia and centrosomes of eukaryotic cells play important roles in cell movement, fluid transport, extracellular sensing, and chromosome division. The physiological functions of cilia and centrosomes are generated by their dynamics, motions, and forces controlled by the physical, chemical, and biological environments. How an individual cilium achieves its beat pattern and induces fluid flow is governed by its ultrastructure as well as the coordination of associated molecular motors. Thus, a bottom-up understanding of the physiological functions of cilia and centrosomes from the molecular to tissue levels is required. Correlations between the structure and motion can be understood in terms of mechanics. This review first focuses on cilia and centrosomes at the molecular level, introducing their ultrastructure. We then shift to the organelle level and introduce the kinematics and mechanics of cilia and centrosomes. Next, at the tissue level, we introduce nodal ciliary dynamics and nodal flow, which play crucial roles in the organogenetic process of left-right asymmetry. We also introduce respiratory ciliary dynamics and mucous flow, which are critical for protecting the epithelium from drying and exposure to harmful particles and viruses, i.e., respiratory clearance function. Finally, we discuss the future research directions in this field.
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Pellicciotta N, Hamilton E, Kotar J, Faucourt M, Delgehyr N, Spassky N, Cicuta P. Entrainment of mammalian motile cilia in the brain with hydrodynamic forces. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:8315-8325. [PMID: 32217737 PMCID: PMC7165462 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910065117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Motile cilia are widespread across the animal and plant kingdoms, displaying complex collective dynamics central to their physiology. Their coordination mechanism is not generally understood, with previous work mainly focusing on algae and protists. We study here the entrainment of cilia beat in multiciliated cells from brain ventricles. The response to controlled oscillatory external flows shows that flows at a similar frequency to the actively beating cilia can entrain cilia oscillations. We find that the hydrodynamic forces required for this entrainment strongly depend on the number of cilia per cell. Cells with few cilia (up to five) can be entrained at flows comparable to cilia-driven flows, in contrast with what was recently observed in Chlamydomonas Experimental trends are quantitatively described by a model that accounts for hydrodynamic screening of packed cilia and the chemomechanical energy efficiency of the flagellar beat. Simulations of a minimal model of cilia interacting hydrodynamically show the same trends observed in cilia.
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- Nicola Pellicciotta
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HE Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HE Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HE Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cilia Biology and Neurogenesis, Institut de biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 75005 Paris, France
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- Cilia Biology and Neurogenesis, Institut de biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 75005 Paris, France
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- Cilia Biology and Neurogenesis, Institut de biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 75005 Paris, France
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HE Cambridge, United Kingdom;
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Cicuta P. The use of biophysical approaches to understand ciliary beating. Biochem Soc Trans 2020; 48:221-229. [PMID: 31922188 PMCID: PMC7054749 DOI: 10.1042/bst20190571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2019] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Motile cilia are a striking example of the functional cellular organelle, conserved across all the eukaryotic species. Motile cilia allow the swimming of cells and small organisms and transport of liquids across epithelial tissues. Whilst the molecular structure is now very well understood, the dynamics of cilia is not well established either at the single cilium level nor at the level of collective beating. Indeed, a full understanding of this requires connecting together behaviour across various lengthscales, from the molecular to the organelle, then at the cellular level and up to the tissue scale. Aside from the fundamental interest in this system, understanding beating is important to elucidate aspects of embryonic development and a variety of health conditions from fertility to genetic and infectious diseases of the airways.
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- Pietro Cicuta
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K
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Hamilton E, Pellicciotta N, Feriani L, Cicuta P. Motile cilia hydrodynamics: entrainment versus synchronization when coupling through flow. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 375:20190152. [PMID: 31884919 PMCID: PMC7017333 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Coordinated motion of cilia is a fascinating and vital aspect of very diverse forms of eukaryotic life, enabling swimming and propulsion of fluid across cellular epithelia. There are many questions still unresolved, and broadly they fall into two classes. (i) The mechanism of how cilia physically transmit forces onto each other. It is not known for many systems if the forces are mainly of hydrodynamical origin, or if elastic forces within the cytoskeleton are important. (ii) In those systems where we know that forces are purely hydrodynamical, we do not have a framework for linking our understanding of how each cilium behaves in isolation to the collective properties of two or more cilia. In this work, we take biological data of cilia dynamics from a variety of organisms as an input for an analytical and numerical study. We calculate the relative importance of external flows versus internal cilia flows on cilia coupling. This study contributes to both the open questions outlined above: firstly, we show that it is, in general, incorrect to infer cilium-cilium coupling strength on the basis of experiments with external flows, and secondly, we show a framework to recapitulate the dynamics of single cilia (the waveform) showing classes that correspond to biological systems with the same physiological activity (swimming by propulsion, versus forming collective waves). This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Unity and diversity of cilia in locomotion and transport'.
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- Evelyn Hamilton
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
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Dutcher SK. Asymmetries in the cilia of Chlamydomonas. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 375:20190153. [PMID: 31884924 PMCID: PMC7017335 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The generation of ciliary waveforms requires the spatial and temporal regulation of dyneins. This review catalogues many of the asymmetric structures and proteins in the cilia of Chlamydomonas, a unicellular alga with two cilia that are used for motility in liquid medium. These asymmetries, which have been identified through mutant analysis, cryo-EM tomography and proteomics, provide a wealth of information to use for modelling how waveforms are generated and propagated. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Unity and diversity of cilia in locomotion and transport'.
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- Susan K. Dutcher
- Department of Genetics, Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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Böddeker TJ, Karpitschka S, Kreis CT, Magdelaine Q, Bäumchen O. Dynamic force measurements on swimming Chlamydomonas cells using micropipette force sensors. J R Soc Interface 2020; 17:20190580. [PMID: 31937233 PMCID: PMC7014799 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Flagella and cilia are cellular appendages that inherit essential functions of microbial life including sensing and navigating the environment. In order to propel a swimming microorganism they displace the surrounding fluid by means of periodic motions, while precisely timed modulations of their beating patterns enable the cell to steer towards or away from specific locations. Characterizing the dynamic forces, however, is challenging and typically relies on indirect experimental approaches. Here, we present direct in vivo measurements of the dynamic forces of motile Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells in controlled environments. The experiments are based on partially aspirating a living microorganism at the tip of a micropipette force sensor and optically recording the micropipette's position fluctuations with high temporal and sub-pixel spatial resolution. Spectral signal analysis allows for isolating the cell-generated dynamic forces caused by the periodic motion of the flagella from background noise. We provide an analytic, elasto-hydrodynamic model for the micropipette force sensor and describe how to obtain the micropipette's full frequency response function from a dynamic force calibration. Using this approach, we measure the amplitude of the oscillatory forces during the swimming activity of individual Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells of 26 ± 5 pN, resulting from the coordinated flagellar beating with a frequency of 49 ± 5 Hz. This dynamic micropipette force sensor technique generalizes the applicability of micropipettes as force sensors from static to dynamic force measurements, yielding a force sensitivity in the piconewton range. In addition to measurements in bulk liquid environment, we study the dynamic forces of the biflagellated microswimmer in the vicinity of a solid/liquid interface. As we gradually decrease the distance of the swimming microbe to the interface, we measure a significantly enhanced force transduction at distances larger than the maximum extent of the beating flagella, highlighting the importance of hydrodynamic interactions for scenarios in which flagellated microorganisms encounter surfaces.
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- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Am Faßberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Wan KY, Hürlimann SK, Fenix AM, McGillivary RM, Makushok T, Burns E, Sheung JY, Marshall WF. Reorganization of complex ciliary flows around regenerating Stentor coeruleus. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 375:20190167. [PMID: 31884915 PMCID: PMC7017328 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The phenomenon of ciliary coordination has garnered increasing attention in recent decades and multiple theories have been proposed to explain its occurrence in different biological systems. While hydrodynamic interactions are thought to dictate the large-scale coordinated activity of epithelial cilia for fluid transport, it is rather basal coupling that accounts for synchronous swimming gaits in model microeukaryotes such as Chlamydomonas. Unicellular ciliates present a fascinating yet understudied context in which coordination is found to persist in ciliary arrays positioned across millimetre scales on the same cell. Here, we focus on the ciliate Stentor coeruleus, chosen for its large size, complex ciliary organization, and capacity for cellular regeneration. These large protists exhibit ciliary differentiation between cortical rows of short body cilia used for swimming, and an anterior ring of longer, fused cilia called the membranellar band (MB). The oral cilia in the MB beat metachronously to produce strong feeding currents. Remarkably, upon injury, the MB can be shed and regenerated de novo. Here, we follow and track this developmental sequence in its entirety to elucidate the emergence of coordinated ciliary beating: from band formation, elongation, curling and final migration towards the cell anterior. We reveal a complex interplay between hydrodynamics and ciliary restructuring in Stentor, and highlight for the first time the importance of a ring-like topology for achieving long-range metachronism in ciliated structures. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Unity and diversity of cilia in locomotion and transport’.
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- Kirsty Y Wan
- Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Physiology Course, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Physiology Course, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Washington, WA 98109, USA.,Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, WA 98109, USA.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Physiology Course, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Physiology Course, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Physiology Course, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Biology, Vassar College, NY 12604, USA.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Whitman Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vassar College, NY 12604, USA.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Whitman Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.,Marine Biological Laboratory, Physiology Course, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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Klotsa D. As above, so below, and also in between: mesoscale active matter in fluids. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:8946-8950. [PMID: 31517373 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01019j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Living matter, such as biological tissue, can be viewed as a nonequilibrium hierarchical assembly, where at each scale self-driven components come together by consuming energy in order to form increasingly complex structures. The remarkable properties of living or "active-matter" systems, as they are generally known, such as versatility, self-healing, and self-replicating, have prompted the following questions: (1) do we understand the biology and biophysics that give rise to these properties? (2) can we achieve similar functionality with synthetic active materials? In this perspective we specifically focus on why it is important to study active matter in fluids with finite inertia. Finite inertia is relevant for mesoscale organisms that swim or fly covering at least three orders of magnitude in size (≈0.5 mm-50 cm) and their collective behavior is generally unknown. As a result, we are limited both in our understanding of the biology of mesoscale swarms and processes but also in our design of self-powered machines and robots at those scales. We expect interesting collective behavior to emerge because with finite inertia, come nonlinearities and the many-body hydrodynamic interactions between the organisms/particles can become quite complex, potentially leading to phenomena, such as novel flocking states and nonequilibrium phase transitions that have not been observed before and which could have great impact in materials applications.
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- Daphne Klotsa
- Department of Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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Chakrabarti B, Saintillan D. Hydrodynamic Synchronization of Spontaneously Beating Filaments. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:208101. [PMID: 31809101 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.208101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Revised: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Using a geometric feedback model of the flagellar axoneme accounting for dynein motor kinetics, we study elastohydrodynamic phase synchronization in a pair of spontaneously beating filaments with waveforms ranging from sperm to cilia and Chlamydomonas. Our computations reveal that both in-phase and antiphase synchrony can emerge for asymmetric beats while symmetric waveforms go in phase, and elucidate the mechanism for phase slips due to biochemical noise. Model predictions agree with recent experiments and illuminate the crucial roles of hydrodynamics and mechanochemical feedback in synchronization.
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- Brato Chakrabarti
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Anand SK, Chelakkot R, Singh SP. Beating to rotational transition of a clamped active ribbon-like filament. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:7926-7933. [PMID: 31538995 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01386e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We present a detailed study of a clamped ribbon-like filament under a compressive active force using Brownian dynamics simulations. We show that a clamped ribbon-like filament is able to capture beating as well as rotational motion under the compressive force. The nature of oscillation is governed by the torsional rigidity of the filament. The frequency of oscillation is almost independent of the torsional rigidity. The beating of the filament gives a butterfly-shaped trajectory of the free-end monomer, whereas rotational motion yields a circular trajectory on a plane. The binormal correlation and the principal component analysis reveal the butterfly, elliptical, and circular trajectories of the free end monomer. We present a phase diagram for different kinds of motion in the parameter regime of compressive force and torsional rigidity.
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- Shalabh K Anand
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal 462 066, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Li G, Kolomenskiy D, Liu H, Thiria B, Godoy-Diana R. On the energetics and stability of a minimal fish school. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215265. [PMID: 31461457 PMCID: PMC6713342 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The physical basis for fish schooling is examined using three-dimensional numerical simulations of a pair of swimming fish, with kinematics and geometry obtained from experimental data. Energy expenditure and efficiency are evaluated using a cost of transport function, while the effect of schooling on the stability of each swimmer is examined by probing the lateral force and the lateral and longitudinal force fluctuations. We construct full maps of the aforementioned quantities as functions of the spatial pattern of the swimming fish pair and show that both energy expenditure and stability can be invoked as possible reasons for the swimming patterns and tail-beat synchronization observed in real fish. Our results suggest that high cost of transport zones should be avoided by the fish. Wake capture may be energetically unfavorable in the absence of kinematic adjustment. We hereby hypothesize that fish may restrain from wake capturing and, instead, adopt side-to-side configuration as a conservative strategy, when the conditions of wake energy harvesting are not satisfied. To maintain a stable school configuration, compromise between propulsive efficiency and stability, as well as between school members, ought to be considered.
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- Gen Li
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan
- * E-mail: (GL); (DK)
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan
- * E-mail: (GL); (DK)
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH, UMR 7636), CNRS, ESPCI Paris–PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH, UMR 7636), CNRS, ESPCI Paris–PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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Bottier M, Thomas KA, Dutcher SK, Bayly PV. How Does Cilium Length Affect Beating? Biophys J 2019; 116:1292-1304. [PMID: 30878201 PMCID: PMC6451027 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The effects of cilium length on the dynamics of cilia motion were investigated by high-speed video microscopy of uniciliated mutants of the swimming alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Cells with short cilia were obtained by deciliating cells via pH shock and allowing cilia to reassemble for limited times. The frequency of cilia beating was estimated from the motion of the cell body and of the cilium. Key features of the ciliary waveform were quantified from polynomial curves fitted to the cilium in each image frame. Most notably, periodic beating did not emerge until the cilium reached a critical length between 2 and 4 μm. Surprisingly, in cells that exhibited periodic beating, the frequency of beating was similar for all lengths with only a slight decrease in frequency as length increased from 4 μm to the normal length of 10-12 μm. The waveform average curvature (rad/μm) was also conserved as the cilium grew. The mechanical metrics of ciliary propulsion (force, torque, and power) all increased in proportion to length. The mechanical efficiency of beating appeared to be maximal at the normal wild-type length of 10-12 μm. These quantitative features of ciliary behavior illuminate the biophysics of cilia motion and, in future studies, may help distinguish competing hypotheses of the underlying mechanism of oscillation.
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- Mathieu Bottier
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Wei D, Dehnavi PG, Aubin-Tam ME, Tam D. Is the Zero Reynolds Number Approximation Valid for Ciliary Flows? PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:124502. [PMID: 30978086 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.124502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Revised: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Stokes equations are commonly used to model the hydrodynamic flow around cilia on the micron scale. The validity of the zero Reynolds number approximation is investigated experimentally with a flow velocimetry approach based on optical tweezers, which allows the measurement of periodic flows with high spatial and temporal resolution. We find that beating cilia generate a flow, which fundamentally differs from the stokeslet field predicted by Stokes equations. In particular, the flow velocity spatially decays at a faster rate and is gradually phase delayed at increasing distances from the cilia. This indicates that the quasisteady approximation and use of Stokes equations for unsteady ciliary flow are not always justified and the finite timescale for vorticity diffusion cannot be neglected. Our results have significant implications in studies of synchronization and collective dynamics of microswimmers.
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- Da Wei
- Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University of Technology, 2628CJ Delft, Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Aero and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, 2628CD Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University of Technology, 2628CJ Delft, Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Aero and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, 2628CD Delft, Netherlands
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You JB, Wang Y, McCallum C, Tarlan F, Hannam T, Lagunov A, Jarvi K, Sinton D. Live sperm trap microarray for high throughput imaging and analysis. LAB ON A CHIP 2019; 19:815-824. [PMID: 30693362 DOI: 10.1039/c8lc01204k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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There is a growing appreciation and understanding of cell-to-cell variability in biological samples. However, research and clinical practice in male fertility has relied on population, or sample-based characteristics. Single-cell resolution is particularly important given the winner-takes-all nature of both natural and in vitro fertilization: it is the properties of a single cell, not the population, that are passed to the next generation. While there are a range of methods for single cell analysis, arraying a larger number of live sperm has not been possible due to the strong locomotion of the cells. Here we present a 103-trap microarray that traps, aligns and arrays individual live sperm. The method enables high-resolution imaging of the aligned cell head, the application of dye-based DNA and mitochondrial analyses, and the quantification of motility characteristics, such as tail beat. In testing, a 2400-post array trapped ∼400 sperm for individual analyses of tail beating frequency and amplitude, DNA integrity via acridine orange staining, and mitochondrial activity via staining. While literature results are mixed regarding a possible correlation between motility and DNA integrity of sperm at sample-level, results here find no statistical correlation between tail beat characteristics and DNA integrity at the cell-level. The trap array uniquely enables the high-throughput study of individual live sperm in semen samples - assessing the inherently single-cell selection process of fertilization, with single-cell resolution.
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- Jae Bem You
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8, Canada.
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Wan KY. Coordination of eukaryotic cilia and flagella. Essays Biochem 2018; 62:829-838. [PMID: 30464007 PMCID: PMC6281475 DOI: 10.1042/ebc20180029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Revised: 10/04/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Propulsion by slender cellular appendages called cilia and flagella is an ancient means of locomotion. Unicellular organisms evolved myriad strategies to propel themselves in fluid environments, often involving significant differences in flagella number, localisation and modes of actuation. Remarkably, these appendages are highly conserved, occurring in many complex organisms such as humans, where they may be found generating physiological flows when attached to surfaces (e.g. airway epithelial cilia), or else conferring motility to male gametes (e.g. undulations of sperm flagella). Where multiple cilia arise, their movements are often observed to be highly coordinated. Here I review the two main mechanisms for motile cilia coordination, namely, intracellular and hydrodynamic, and discuss their relative importance in different ciliary systems.
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- Kirsty Y Wan
- Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K.
- College of Engineering Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K
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Ishimoto K, Gaffney EA. Hydrodynamic Clustering of Human Sperm in Viscoelastic Fluids. Sci Rep 2018; 8:15600. [PMID: 30349142 PMCID: PMC6197292 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33584-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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We have numerically investigated sperm clustering behaviours, modelling cells as superpositions of regularised flow singularities, coarse-grained from experimentally obtained digital microscopy of human sperm, both in watery medium and a highly viscous-weakly elastic, methylcellulose medium. We find that the cell yaw and cell pulling dynamics inhibit clustering in low viscosity media. In contrast clustering is readily visible in simulations modelling sperm within a methylcellulose medium, in line with previous observations that bovine sperm clustering is much more prominent in a rheological polyacrylamide medium. Furthermore, the fine-scale details of sperm flagellar movement substantially impact large-scale collective behaviours, further motivating the need for the digital microscopy and characterization of sperm to understand their dynamics.
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- Kenta Ishimoto
- Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK. .,Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8914, Japan.
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- Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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Liu Y, Claydon R, Polin M, Brumley DR. Transitions in synchronization states of model cilia through basal-connection coupling. J R Soc Interface 2018; 15:rsif.2018.0450. [PMID: 30305422 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Despite evidence for a hydrodynamic origin of flagellar synchronization between different eukaryotic cells, recent experiments have shown that in single multi-flagellated organisms, coordination hinges instead on direct basal body connections. The mechanism by which these connections lead to coordination, however, is currently not understood. Here, we focus on the model biflagellate Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and propose a minimal model for the synchronization of its two flagella as a result of both hydrodynamic and direct mechanical coupling. A spectrum of different types of coordination can be selected, depending on small changes in the stiffness of intracellular couplings. These include prolonged in-phase and anti-phase synchronization, as well as a range of multi-stable states induced by spontaneous symmetry breaking of the system. Linking synchrony to intracellular stiffness could lead to the use of flagellar dynamics as a probe for the mechanical state of the cell.
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- Yujie Liu
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Physics Department, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Physics Department, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK .,Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Friedrich BM. Load response of shape-changing microswimmers scales with their swimming efficiency. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:042416. [PMID: 29758744 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.042416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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External forces acting on a microswimmer can feed back on its self-propulsion mechanism. We discuss this load response for a generic microswimmer that swims by cyclic shape changes. We show that the change in cycle frequency is proportional to the Lighthill efficiency of self-propulsion. As a specific example, we consider Najafi's three-sphere swimmer. The force-velocity relation of a microswimmer implies a correction for a formal superposition principle for active and passive motion.
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Haas PA, Höhn SSMH, Honerkamp-Smith AR, Kirkegaard JB, Goldstein RE. The noisy basis of morphogenesis: Mechanisms and mechanics of cell sheet folding inferred from developmental variability. PLoS Biol 2018; 16:e2005536. [PMID: 30001335 PMCID: PMC6063725 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Variability is emerging as an integral part of development. It is therefore imperative to ask how to access the information contained in this variability. Yet most studies of development average their observations and, discarding the variability, seek to derive models, biological or physical, that explain these average observations. Here, we analyse this variability in a study of cell sheet folding in the green alga Volvox, whose spherical embryos turn themselves inside out in a process sharing invagination, expansion, involution, and peeling of a cell sheet with animal models of morphogenesis. We generalise our earlier, qualitative model of the initial stages of inversion by combining ideas from morphoelasticity and shell theory. Together with three-dimensional visualisations of inversion using light sheet microscopy, this yields a detailed, quantitative model of the entire inversion process. With this model, we show how the variability of inversion reveals that two separate, temporally uncoupled processes drive the initial invagination and subsequent expansion of the cell sheet. This implies a prototypical transition towards higher developmental complexity in the volvocine algae and provides proof of principle of analysing morphogenesis based on its variability. Biological noise is unavoidable in—and even necessary for—development. Here, we ask whether this variability can teach us something about the process that underlies it. We show how to access the information hidden in the variability in an analysis of the variability of cell sheet folding in the green alga Volvox globator. Through a combination of light sheet microscopy and mathematical modelling, we show how the inversion process, by which the spherical embryos of Volvox turn themselves inside out, results from two separate mechanisms of bending and stretching (expansion and subsequent contraction). Our analysis therefore uncovers a prototypical transition of developmental complexity in Volvox and the related volvocine algae, from a morphogenetic process driven by a single mechanism to one driven by two separate mechanisms. This complements the similarly prototypical transition from one cell type to two cell types that has made the volvocine algae a model system for the evolution of multicellularity.
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- Pierre A. Haas
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Okumura K, Nishikawa S, Omori T, Ishikawa T, Takamatsu A. Asymmetry in cilia configuration induces hydrodynamic phase locking. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:032411. [PMID: 29776148 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.032411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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To gain insight into the nature of biological synchronization at the microscopic scale, we here investigate the hydrodynamic synchronization between conically rotating objects termed nodal cilia. A mechanical model of three rotating cilia is proposed with consideration of variation in their shapes and geometrical arrangement. We conduct numerical estimations of both near-field and far-field hydrodynamic interactions, and we apply a conventional averaging method for weakly coupled oscillators. In the nonidentical case, the three cilia showed stable locked-phase differences around ±π/2. However, such phase locking also occurred with three identical cilia when allocated in a triangle except for the equilateral triangle. The effects of inhomogeneity in cilia shapes and geometrical arrangement on such asymmetric interaction is discussed to understand the role of biological variation in synchronization via hydrodynamic interactions.
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- Keiji Okumura
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Sinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Sinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Finemechanics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Finemechanics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Sinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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Martínez-Pedrero F, Tierno P. Advances in colloidal manipulation and transport via hydrodynamic interactions. J Colloid Interface Sci 2018; 519:296-311. [PMID: 29505991 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.02.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Revised: 02/19/2018] [Accepted: 02/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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In this review article, we highlight many recent advances in the field of micromanipulation of colloidal particles using hydrodynamic interactions (HIs), namely solvent mediated long-range interactions. At the micrsocale, the hydrodynamic laws are time reversible and the flow becomes laminar, features that allow precise manipulation and control of colloidal matter. We focus on different strategies where externally operated microstructures generate local flow fields that induce the advection and motion of the surrounding components. In addition, we review cases where the induced flow gives rise to hydrodynamic bound states that may synchronize during the process, a phenomenon essential in different systems such as those that exhibit self-assembly and swarming.
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- F Martínez-Pedrero
- Departamento de Química-Física I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Complutense s/n, Madrid 28040, Spain.
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- Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, IN(2)UB, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Kawamura Y, Tsubaki R. Phase reduction approach to elastohydrodynamic synchronization of beating flagella. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:022212. [PMID: 29548174 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.022212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We formulate a theory for the phase reduction of a beating flagellum. The theory enables us to describe the dynamics of a beating flagellum in a systematic manner using a single variable called the phase. The theory can also be considered as a phase reduction method for the limit-cycle solutions in infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, namely, the limit-cycle solutions to partial differential equations representing beating flagella. We derive the phase sensitivity function, which quantifies the phase response of a beating flagellum to weak perturbations applied at each point and at each time. Using the phase sensitivity function, we analyze the phase synchronization between a pair of beating flagella through hydrodynamic interactions at a low Reynolds number.
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- Yoji Kawamura
- Department of Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan
- Research and Development Center for Marine Biosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
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- Research and Development Center for Marine Biosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
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Feriani L, Juenet M, Fowler CJ, Bruot N, Chioccioli M, Holland SM, Bryant CE, Cicuta P. Assessing the Collective Dynamics of Motile Cilia in Cultures of Human Airway Cells by Multiscale DDM. Biophys J 2017; 113:109-119. [PMID: 28700909 PMCID: PMC5510766 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.05.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Revised: 05/20/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The technique of differential dynamic microscopy is extended here, showing that it can provide a powerful and objective method of video analysis for optical microscopy videos of in vitro samples of live human bronchial epithelial ciliated cells. These cells are multiciliated, with motile cilia that play key physiological roles. It is shown that the ciliary beat frequency can be recovered to match conventional analysis, but in a fully automated fashion. Furthermore, it is shown that the properties of spatial and temporal coherence of cilia beat can be recovered and distinguished, and that if a collective traveling wave (the metachronal wave) is present, this has a distinct signature and its wavelength and direction can be measured.
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- Luigi Feriani
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Verasztó C, Ueda N, Bezares-Calderón LA, Panzera A, Williams EA, Shahidi R, Jékely G. Ciliomotor circuitry underlying whole-body coordination of ciliary activity in the Platynereis larva. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28508746 PMCID: PMC5531833 DOI: 10.7554/elife.26000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Ciliated surfaces harbouring synchronously beating cilia can generate fluid flow or drive locomotion. In ciliary swimmers, ciliary beating, arrests, and changes in beat frequency are often coordinated across extended or discontinuous surfaces. To understand how such coordination is achieved, we studied the ciliated larvae of Platynereis dumerilii, a marine annelid. Platynereis larvae have segmental multiciliated cells that regularly display spontaneous coordinated ciliary arrests. We used whole-body connectomics, activity imaging, transgenesis, and neuron ablation to characterize the ciliomotor circuitry. We identified cholinergic, serotonergic, and catecholaminergic ciliomotor neurons. The synchronous rhythmic activation of cholinergic cells drives the coordinated arrests of all cilia. The serotonergic cells are active when cilia are beating. Serotonin inhibits the cholinergic rhythm, and increases ciliary beat frequency. Based on their connectivity and alternating activity, the catecholaminergic cells may generate the rhythm. The ciliomotor circuitry thus constitutes a stop-and-go pacemaker system for the whole-body coordination of ciliary locomotion. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26000.001 The oceans contain a wide variety of microscopic organisms including bacteria, algae and animal larvae. Many of the microscopic animals that live in water use thousands of beating hair-like projections called cilia instead of muscles to swim around in the water. Understanding how these animals move will aid our understanding of how ocean processes, such as the daily migration of plankton to and from the surface of the water, are regulated. The larvae of a ragworm called Platynereis use cilia to move around. Like other animals, Platynereis has a nervous system containing neurons that form networks to control the body. It is possible that the nervous system is involved in coordinating the activity of the cilia to allow the larvae to manoeuvre in the water, but it was not clear how this could work. Here, Veraszto et al. investigated how Platynereis is able to swim. The experiments show that the larvae can coordinate their cilia so that they all stop beating at the same time and fold into to the body. Then the larvae can stimulate all of their cilia to resume beating. Veraszto et al. used a technique called electron microscopy to study how the nervous system connects to the cilia. This revealed that several giant neurons span the entire length of the larva and connect to cells that bear cilia. When these neurons were active, all the cilia in the body closed. When a different group of neurons in the larva was active, all of the cilia resumed beating. Together, these two groups of neurons were ultimately responsible for the swimming motions of the larvae. Together, the findings of Veraszto et al. show that a few neurons in the nervous system of the larvae provide a sophisticated system for controlling how the larvae swim around. This suggests that the microscopic animals found in marine environments are a lot more sophisticated than previously appreciated. A next challenge is to find out how the neurons that control cilia connect to the rest of the animal’s nervous system and how different cues influence when the larva swims or stops swimming. This would help us understand how the environment influences the distribution of animal larvae in the oceans and how this may change in the future. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26000.002
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- Csaba Verasztó
- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Ghorbani A, Najafi A. Symplectic and antiplectic waves in an array of beating cilia attached to a closed body. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:052412. [PMID: 28618581 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.052412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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By taking into account the hydrodynamic interactions in a one dimensional array of model cilia attached to a no-slip cylinderical surface, we investigate their synchronized motion. We show how the emergence of metachronal waves depends on the initial state of the system and investigate the conditions under which the formation of symplectic and antiplectic waves are possible.
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- Aref Ghorbani
- Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran
- Department of Physics, University of Zanjan, Zanjan 313, Iran
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Shiba K, Inaba K. Inverse relationship of Ca 2+-dependent flagellar response between animal sperm and prasinophyte algae. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2017; 130:465-473. [PMID: 28424932 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-017-0931-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Accepted: 02/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Symmetry/asymmetry conversion of eukaryotic flagellar waveform is caused by the changes in intracellular Ca2+. Animal sperm flagella show symmetric or asymmetric waveform at lower or higher concentration of intracellular Ca2+, respectively. In Chlamydomonas, high Ca2+ induces conversion of flagellar waveform from asymmetric to symmetry, resulting in the backward movement. This mirror image relationship between animal sperm and Chlamydomonas could be explained by the distinct calcium sensors used to regulate the outer arm dyneins (Inaba 2015). Here we analyze the flagellar Ca2+-response of the prasinophyte Pterosperma cristatum, which shows backward movement by undulating four flagella, the appearance similar to animal sperm. The moving path of Pterosperma shows relatively straight in artificial seawater (ASW) or ASW in the presence of a Ca2+ ionophore A23187, whereas it becomes circular in a low Ca2+ solution. Analysis of flagellar waveform reveals symmetric or asymmetric waveform propagation in ASW or a low Ca2+ solution, respectively. These patterns of flagellar responses are completely opposite to those in sperm flagella of the sea urchin Anthocidaris crassispina, supporting the idea previously proposed that the difference in flagellar response to Ca2+ attributes to the evolutional innovation of calcium sensors of outer arm dynein in opisthokont or bikont lineage.
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- Kogiku Shiba
- Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, 5-10-1 Shimoda, Shizuoka, 415-0025, Japan
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- Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, 5-10-1 Shimoda, Shizuoka, 415-0025, Japan.
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Sarkar D, Thakur S. Spontaneous beating and synchronization of extensile active filament. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:154901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4979946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Debarati Sarkar
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal, India
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Brumley DR, Bruot N, Kotar J, Goldstein RE, Cicuta P, Polin M. Long-range interactions, wobbles, and phase defects in chains of model cilia. PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 2016; 1:081201. [PMID: 30123853 PMCID: PMC6097603 DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.1.081201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Eukaryotic cilia and flagella are chemo-mechanical oscillators capable of generating long-range coordinated motions known as metachronal waves. Pair synchronization is a fundamental requirement for these collective dynamics, but it is generally not sufficient for collective phase-locking, chiefly due to the effect of long-range interactions. Here we explore experimentally and numerically a minimal model for a ciliated surface: hydrodynamically coupled oscillators rotating above a no-slip plane. Increasing their distance from the wall profoundly affects the global dynamics, due to variations in hydrodynamic interaction range. The array undergoes a transition from a traveling wave to either a steady chevron pattern or one punctuated by periodic phase defects. Within the transition between these regimes the system displays behavior reminiscent of chimera states.
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- Douglas R. Brumley
- Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,
USA
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH
Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba,
Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE,
United Kingdom
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE,
United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road,
Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE,
United Kingdom
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- Physics Department, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road,
Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Izumida Y, Kori H, Seifert U. Energetics of synchronization in coupled oscillators rotating on circular trajectories. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:052221. [PMID: 27967039 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.052221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We derive a concise and general expression of the energy dissipation rate for coupled oscillators rotating on circular trajectories by unifying the nonequilibrium aspects with the nonlinear dynamics via stochastic thermodynamics. In the framework of phase oscillator models, it is known that the even and odd parts of the coupling function express the effect on collective and relative dynamics, respectively. We reveal that the odd part always decreases the dissipation upon synchronization, while the even part yields a characteristic square-root change of the dissipation near the bifurcation point whose sign depends on the specific system parameters. We apply our theory to hydrodynamically coupled Stokes spheres rotating on circular trajectories that can be interpreted as a simple model of synchronization of coupled oscillators in a biophysical system. We show that the coupled Stokes spheres gain the ability to do more work on the surrounding fluid as the degree of phase synchronization increases.
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- Yuki Izumida
- Department of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
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- Department of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
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- II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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Goldstein RE, Lauga E, Pesci AI, Proctor MRE. Elastohydrodynamic Synchronization of Adjacent Beating Flagella. PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 2016; 1:073201. [PMID: 29750206 PMCID: PMC5939993 DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.1.073201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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It is now well established that nearby beating pairs of eukaryotic flagella or cilia typically synchronize in phase. A substantial body of evidence supports the hypothesis that hydrodynamic coupling between the active filaments, combined with waveform compliance, provides a robust mechanism for synchrony. This elastohydrodynamic mechanism has been incorporated into 'bead-spring' models in which the beating flagella are represented by microspheres tethered by radial springs as they are driven about orbits by internal forces. While these low-dimensional models reproduce the phenomenon of synchrony, their parameters are not readily relatable to those of the filaments they represent. More realistic models which reflect the underlying elasticity of the axonemes and the active force generation, take the form of fourth-order nonlinear PDEs. While computational studies have shown the occurrence of synchrony, the effects of hydrodynamic coupling between nearby filaments governed by such continuum models have been theoretically examined only in the regime of interflagellar distances d large compared to flagellar length L. Yet, in many biological situations d/L ≪ 1. Here, we first present an asymptotic analysis of the hydrodynamic coupling between two extended filaments in the regime d/L ≪ 1, and find that the form of the coupling is independent of the microscopic details of the internal forces that govern the motion of the individual filaments. The analysis is analogous to that yielding the localized induction approximation for vortex filament motion, extended to the case of mutual induction. In order to understand how the elastohydrodynamic coupling mechanism leads to synchrony of extended objects, we introduce a heuristic model of flagellar beating. The model takes the form of a single fourth-order nonlinear PDE whose form is derived from symmetry considerations, the physics of elasticity, and the overdamped nature of the dynamics. Analytical and numerical studies of this model illustrate how synchrony between a pair of filaments is achieved through the asymptotic coupling.
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- Raymond E Goldstein
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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Matt G, Umen J. Volvox: A simple algal model for embryogenesis, morphogenesis and cellular differentiation. Dev Biol 2016; 419:99-113. [PMID: 27451296 PMCID: PMC5101179 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Revised: 07/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Patterning of a multicellular body plan involves a coordinated set of developmental processes that includes cell division, morphogenesis, and cellular differentiation. These processes have been most intensively studied in animals and land plants; however, deep insight can also be gained by studying development in simpler multicellular organisms. The multicellular green alga Volvox carteri (Volvox) is an excellent model for the investigation of developmental mechanisms and their evolutionary origins. Volvox has a streamlined body plan that contains only a few thousand cells and two distinct cell types: reproductive germ cells and terminally differentiated somatic cells. Patterning of the Volvox body plan is achieved through a stereotyped developmental program that includes embryonic cleavage with asymmetric cell division, morphogenesis, and cell-type differentiation. In this review we provide an overview of how these three developmental processes give rise to the adult form in Volvox and how developmental mutants have provided insights into the mechanisms behind these events. We highlight the accessibility and tractability of Volvox and its relatives that provide a unique opportunity for studying development.
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- Gavriel Matt
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N Warson Rd, St. Louis, MO 63132, USA; Washington University in St. Louis, Division of Biology & Biomedical Science, Campus Box 8226, 660 South Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N Warson Rd, St. Louis, MO 63132, USA.
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Sartori P, Geyer VF, Howard J, Jülicher F. Curvature regulation of the ciliary beat through axonemal twist. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:042426. [PMID: 27841522 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.042426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Cilia and flagella are hairlike organelles that propel cells through fluid. The active motion of the axoneme, the motile structure inside cilia and flagella, is powered by molecular motors of the axonemal dynein family. These motors generate forces and torques that slide and bend the microtubule doublets within the axoneme. To create regular waveforms, the activities of the dyneins must be coordinated. It is thought that coordination is mediated by stresses due to radial, transverse, or sliding deformations, and which build up within the moving axoneme and feed back on dynein activity. However, which particular components of the stress regulate the motors to produce the observed waveforms of the many different types of flagella remains an open question. To address this question, we describe the axoneme as a three-dimensional bundle of filaments and characterize its mechanics. We show that regulation of the motors by radial and transverse stresses can lead to a coordinated flagellar motion only in the presence of twist. We show that twist, which could arise from torque produced by the dyneins, couples curvature to transverse and radial stresses. We calculate emergent beating patterns in twisted axonemes resulting from regulation by transverse stresses. The resulting waveforms are similar to those observed in flagella of Chlamydomonas and sperm. Due to the twist, the waveform has nonplanar components, which result in swimming trajectories such as twisted ribbons and helices, which agree with observations.
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- Pablo Sartori
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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Bayly PV, Dutcher SK. Steady dynein forces induce flutter instability and propagating waves in mathematical models of flagella. J R Soc Interface 2016; 13:20160523. [PMID: 27798276 PMCID: PMC5095214 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Cilia and flagella are highly conserved organelles that beat rhythmically with propulsive, oscillatory waveforms. The mechanism that produces these autonomous oscillations remains a mystery. It is widely believed that dynein activity must be dynamically regulated (switched on and off, or modulated) on opposite sides of the axoneme to produce oscillations. A variety of regulation mechanisms have been proposed based on feedback from mechanical deformation to dynein force. In this paper, we show that a much simpler interaction between dynein and the passive components of the axoneme can produce coordinated, propulsive oscillations. Steady, distributed axial forces, acting in opposite directions on coupled beams in viscous fluid, lead to dynamic structural instability and oscillatory, wave-like motion. This 'flutter' instability is a dynamic analogue to the well-known static instability, buckling. Flutter also occurs in slender beams subjected to tangential axial loads, in aircraft wings exposed to steady air flow and in flexible pipes conveying fluid. By analysis of the flagellar equations of motion and simulation of structural models of flagella, we demonstrate that dynein does not need to switch direction or inactivate to produce autonomous, propulsive oscillations, but must simply pull steadily above a critical threshold force.
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- P V Bayly
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Drive, Box 1185, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University in Saint Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Box 1185, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA
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Qiu L, LeBel RP, Storm DR, Chen X. Type 3 adenylyl cyclase: a key enzyme mediating the cAMP signaling in neuronal cilia. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 2016; 8:95-108. [PMID: 27785336 PMCID: PMC5078481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2016] [Accepted: 09/06/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Cilia are rigid, centriole-derived, microtubule-based organelles present in a majority of vertebrate cells including neurons. They are considered the cellular "antennae" attuned for detecting a range of extracellular signals including photons, odorants, morphogens, hormones and mechanical forces. The ciliary microenvironment is distinct from most actin-based subcellular structures such as microvilli or synapses. In the nervous system, there is no evidence that neuronal cilia process any synaptic structure. Apparently, the structural features of neuronal cilia do not allow them to harbor any synaptic connections. Nevertheless, a large number of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) including odorant receptors, rhodopsin, Smoothened, and type 6 serotonin receptor are found in cilia, suggesting that these tiny processes largely depend on metabotropic receptors and their tuned signals to impact neuronal functions. The type 3 adenylyl cyclase (AC3), widely known as a cilia marker, is highly and predominantly expressed in olfactory sensory cilia and primary cilia throughout the brain. We discovered that ablation of AC3 in mice leads to pleiotropic phenotypes including anosmia, failure to detect mechanical stimulation of airflow, cognitive deficit, obesity, and depression-like behaviors. Multiple lines of human genetic evidence also demonstrate that AC3 is associated with obesity, major depressive disorder (MDD), sarcoidosis, and infertility, underscoring its functional importance. Here we review recent progress on AC3, a key enzyme mediating the cAMP signaling in neuronal cilia.
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- Liyan Qiu
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Science and Agriculture, University of New HampshireDurham, NH 03824, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Science and Agriculture, University of New HampshireDurham, NH 03824, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of WashingtonSeattle, WA, 98195-7750, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Science and Agriculture, University of New HampshireDurham, NH 03824, USA
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Pedley TJ, Brumley DR, Goldstein RE. Squirmers with swirl: a model for Volvox swimming. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS 2016; 798:165-186. [PMID: 27795576 PMCID: PMC5070036 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2016.306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2015] [Revised: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
Abstract
Colonies of the green alga Volvox are spheres that swim through the beating of pairs of flagella on their surface somatic cells. The somatic cells themselves are mounted rigidly in a polymeric extracellular matrix, fixing the orientation of the flagella so that they beat approximately in a meridional plane, with axis of symmetry in the swimming direction, but with a roughly [Formula: see text] azimuthal offset which results in the eponymous rotation of the colonies about a body-fixed axis. Experiments on colonies of Volvox carteri held stationary on a micropipette show that the beating pattern takes the form of a symplectic metachronal wave (Brumley et al. Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 109, 2012, 268102). Here we extend the Lighthill/Blake axisymmetric, Stokes-flow model of a free-swimming spherical squirmer (Lighthill Commun. Pure Appl. Maths, vol. 5, 1952, pp. 109-118; Blake J. Fluid Mech., vol. 46, 1971b, pp. 199-208) to include azimuthal swirl. The measured kinematics of the metachronal wave for 60 different colonies are used to calculate the coefficients in the eigenfunction expansions and hence predict the mean swimming speeds and rotation rates, proportional to the square of the beating amplitude, as functions of colony radius. As a test of the squirmer model, the results are compared with measurements (Drescher et al. Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 102, 2009, 168101) of the mean swimming speeds and angular velocities of a different set of 220 colonies, also given as functions of colony radius. The predicted variation with radius is qualitatively correct, but the model underestimates both the mean swimming speed and the mean angular velocity unless the amplitude of the flagellar beat is taken to be larger than previously thought. The reasons for this discrepancy are discussed.
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- T. J. Pedley
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical
Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3
0WA, UK
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- Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139,
USA
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich,
Switzerland
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical
Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3
0WA, UK
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Wan KY, Goldstein RE. Coordinated beating of algal flagella is mediated by basal coupling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E2784-93. [PMID: 27140605 PMCID: PMC4878519 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518527113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Cilia and flagella often exhibit synchronized behavior; this includes phase locking, as seen in Chlamydomonas, and metachronal wave formation in the respiratory cilia of higher organisms. Since the observations by Gray and Rothschild of phase synchrony of nearby swimming spermatozoa, it has been a working hypothesis that synchrony arises from hydrodynamic interactions between beating filaments. Recent work on the dynamics of physically separated pairs of flagella isolated from the multicellular alga Volvox has shown that hydrodynamic coupling alone is sufficient to produce synchrony. However, the situation is more complex in unicellular organisms bearing few flagella. We show that flagella of Chlamydomonas mutants deficient in filamentary connections between basal bodies display markedly different synchronization from the wild type. We perform micromanipulation on configurations of flagella and conclude that a mechanism, internal to the cell, must provide an additional flagellar coupling. In naturally occurring species with 4, 8, or even 16 flagella, we find diverse symmetries of basal body positioning and of the flagellar apparatus that are coincident with specific gaits of flagellar actuation, suggesting that it is a competition between intracellular coupling and hydrodynamic interactions that ultimately determines the precise form of flagellar coordination in unicellular algae.
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- Kirsty Y Wan
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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Barsanti L, Coltelli P, Evangelista V, Frassanito AM, Gualtieri P. Swimming patterns of the quadriflagellate Tetraflagellochloris mauritanica (Chlamydomonadales, Chlorophyceae). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2016; 52:209-218. [PMID: 27037586 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2015] [Accepted: 12/04/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Chlamydomonadales are elective subjects for the investigation of the problems related to locomotion and transport in biological fluid dynamics, whose resolution could enhance searching efficiency and assist in the avoidance of dangerous environments. In this paper, we elucidate the swimming behavior of Tetraflagellochloris mauritanica, a unicellular-multicellular alga belonging to the order Chlamydomonadales. This quadriflagellate alga has a complex swimming motion consisting of alternating swimming phases connected by in-place random reorientations and resting phases. It is capable of both forward and backward swimming, both being normal modes of swimming. The complex swimming behavior resembles the run-and-tumble motion of peritrichous bacteria, with in-place reorientation taking the place of tumbles. In the forward swimming, T. mauritanica shows a very efficient flagellar beat, with undulatory retrograde waves that run along the flagella to their tip. In the backward swimming, the flagella show a nonstereotypical synchronization mode, with a pattern that does not fit any of the modes present in the other Chlamydomonadales so far investigated.
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- Laura Barsanti
- Istituto di Biofisica, CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, 56124, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia Informazione, CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, 56124, Italy
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- Istituto di Biofisica, CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, 56124, Italy
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Brumley DR, Polin M, Pedley TJ, Goldstein RE. Metachronal waves in the flagellar beating of Volvox and their hydrodynamic origin. J R Soc Interface 2016; 12:20141358. [PMID: 26040592 PMCID: PMC4528573 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.1358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Groups of eukaryotic cilia and flagella are capable of coordinating their beating over large scales, routinely exhibiting collective dynamics in the form of metachronal waves. The origin of this behaviour—possibly influenced by both mechanical interactions and direct biological regulation—is poorly understood, in large part due to a lack of quantitative experimental studies. Here we characterize in detail flagellar coordination on the surface of the multicellular alga Volvox carteri, an emerging model organism for flagellar dynamics. Our studies reveal for the first time that the average metachronal coordination observed is punctuated by periodic phase defects during which synchrony is partial and limited to specific groups of cells. A minimal model of hydrodynamically coupled oscillators can reproduce semi-quantitatively the characteristics of the average metachronal dynamics, and the emergence of defects. We systematically study the model's behaviour by assessing the effect of changing intrinsic rotor characteristics, including oscillator stiffness and the nature of their internal driving force, as well as their geometric properties and spatial arrangement. Our results suggest that metachronal coordination follows from deformations in the oscillators' limit cycles induced by hydrodynamic stresses, and that defects result from sufficiently steep local biases in the oscillators' intrinsic frequencies. Additionally, we find that random variations in the intrinsic rotor frequencies increase the robustness of the average properties of the emergent metachronal waves.
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- Douglas R Brumley
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
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Nasouri B, Elfring GJ. Hydrodynamic interactions of cilia on a spherical body. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:033111. [PMID: 27078451 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.033111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Microorganisms develop coordinated beating patterns on surfaces lined with cilia known as metachronal waves. For a chain of cilia attached to a flat ciliate, it has been shown that hydrodynamic interactions alone can lead the system to synchronize. However, several microorganisms possess a curve-shaped ciliate body and so to understand the effect of this geometry on the formation of metachronal waves, we evaluate the hydrodynamic interactions of cilia near a large spherical body. Using a minimal model, we show that for a chain of cilia around the sphere, the natural periodicity in the geometry leads the system to synchronize. We also report an emergent wavelike behavior when an asymmetry is introduced to the system.
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- Babak Nasouri
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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