Dynamics, scaling behavior, and control of nuclear wrinkling

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Main Authors: Jackson, Jonathan A., Romeo, Nicolas, Mietke, Alexander, Burns, Keaton J., Totz, Jan F., Martin, Adam C., Dunkel, Jörn, Alsous, Jasmin Imran
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author Jackson, Jonathan A.
Romeo, Nicolas
Mietke, Alexander
Burns, Keaton J.
Totz, Jan F.
Martin, Adam C.
Dunkel, Jörn
Alsous, Jasmin Imran
author_facet Jackson, Jonathan A.
Romeo, Nicolas
Mietke, Alexander
Burns, Keaton J.
Totz, Jan F.
Martin, Adam C.
Dunkel, Jörn
Alsous, Jasmin Imran
contents The cell nucleus is enveloped by a complex membrane, whose wrinkling has been implicated in disease and cellular aging. The biophysical dynamics and spectral evolution of nuclear wrinkling during multicellular development remain poorly understood due to a lack of direct quantitative measurements. Here, we combine live-imaging experiments, theory, and simulations to characterize the onset and dynamics of nuclear wrinkling during egg development in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, when nurse cell nuclei increase in size and display stereotypical wrinkling behavior. A spectral analysis of three-dimensional high-resolution data from several hundred nuclei reveals a robust asymptotic power-law scaling of angular fluctuations consistent with renormalization and scaling predictions from a nonlinear elastic shell model. We further demonstrate that nuclear wrinkling can be reversed through osmotic shock and suppressed by microtubule disruption, providing tunable physical and biological control parameters for probing mechanical properties of the nuclear envelope. Our findings advance the biophysical understanding of nuclear membrane fluctuations during early multicellular development.
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spellingShingle Dynamics, scaling behavior, and control of nuclear wrinkling
Jackson, Jonathan A.
Romeo, Nicolas
Mietke, Alexander
Burns, Keaton J.
Totz, Jan F.
Martin, Adam C.
Dunkel, Jörn
Alsous, Jasmin Imran
Biological Physics
Soft Condensed Matter
The cell nucleus is enveloped by a complex membrane, whose wrinkling has been implicated in disease and cellular aging. The biophysical dynamics and spectral evolution of nuclear wrinkling during multicellular development remain poorly understood due to a lack of direct quantitative measurements. Here, we combine live-imaging experiments, theory, and simulations to characterize the onset and dynamics of nuclear wrinkling during egg development in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, when nurse cell nuclei increase in size and display stereotypical wrinkling behavior. A spectral analysis of three-dimensional high-resolution data from several hundred nuclei reveals a robust asymptotic power-law scaling of angular fluctuations consistent with renormalization and scaling predictions from a nonlinear elastic shell model. We further demonstrate that nuclear wrinkling can be reversed through osmotic shock and suppressed by microtubule disruption, providing tunable physical and biological control parameters for probing mechanical properties of the nuclear envelope. Our findings advance the biophysical understanding of nuclear membrane fluctuations during early multicellular development.
title Dynamics, scaling behavior, and control of nuclear wrinkling
topic Biological Physics
Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11581