Geometric Effects in Large Scale Intracellular Flows

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Hauptverfasser: Jain, Olenka, Chakrabarti, Brato, Farhadifar, Reza, Gavis, Elizabeth R., Shelley, Michael J., Shvartsman, Stanislav Y.
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author Jain, Olenka
Chakrabarti, Brato
Farhadifar, Reza
Gavis, Elizabeth R.
Shelley, Michael J.
Shvartsman, Stanislav Y.
author_facet Jain, Olenka
Chakrabarti, Brato
Farhadifar, Reza
Gavis, Elizabeth R.
Shelley, Michael J.
Shvartsman, Stanislav Y.
contents This work probes the role of cell geometry in orienting self-organized fluid flows in the late stage Drosophila oocyte. Recent theoretical work has shown that a model, which relies only on hydrodynamic interactions of flexible, cortically anchored microtubules (MTs) and the mechanical loads from molecular motors moving upon them, is sufficient to generate observed flows. While the emergence of flows has been studied in spheres, oocytes change shape during streaming and it was unclear how robust these flows are to the geometry of the cell. Here we use biophysical theory and computational analysis to investigate the role of geometry and find that the axis of rotation is set by the shape of the domain and that the flow is robust to biologically relevant perturbations of the domain shape. Using live imaging and 3D flow reconstruction, we test the predictions of the theory/simulation, finding consistency between the model and live experiments, further demonstrating a geometric dependence on flow direction in late-stage Drosophila oocytes.
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spellingShingle Geometric Effects in Large Scale Intracellular Flows
Jain, Olenka
Chakrabarti, Brato
Farhadifar, Reza
Gavis, Elizabeth R.
Shelley, Michael J.
Shvartsman, Stanislav Y.
Biological Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Cell Behavior
This work probes the role of cell geometry in orienting self-organized fluid flows in the late stage Drosophila oocyte. Recent theoretical work has shown that a model, which relies only on hydrodynamic interactions of flexible, cortically anchored microtubules (MTs) and the mechanical loads from molecular motors moving upon them, is sufficient to generate observed flows. While the emergence of flows has been studied in spheres, oocytes change shape during streaming and it was unclear how robust these flows are to the geometry of the cell. Here we use biophysical theory and computational analysis to investigate the role of geometry and find that the axis of rotation is set by the shape of the domain and that the flow is robust to biologically relevant perturbations of the domain shape. Using live imaging and 3D flow reconstruction, we test the predictions of the theory/simulation, finding consistency between the model and live experiments, further demonstrating a geometric dependence on flow direction in late-stage Drosophila oocytes.
title Geometric Effects in Large Scale Intracellular Flows
topic Biological Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Cell Behavior
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06763