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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 285: C1082-C1090, 2003. First published July 2, 2003; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00159.2003
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PROTEIN AND VESICLE TRAFFICKING, CYTOSKELETON

Intracellular stress tomography reveals stress focusing and structural anisotropy in cytoskeleton of living cells

Shaohua Hu,1 Jianxin Chen,1 Ben Fabry,1 Yasushi Numaguchi,2 Andrew Gouldstone,1 Donald E. Ingber,2 Jeffrey J. Fredberg,1 James P. Butler,1 and Ning Wang1

1Physiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, and 2Vascular Biology Program, Departments of Surgery and Pathology, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Submitted 23 April 2003 ; accepted in final form 26 June 2003

We describe a novel synchronous detection approach to map the transmission of mechanical stresses within the cytoplasm of an adherent cell. Using fluorescent protein-labeled mitochondria or cytoskeletal components as fiducial markers, we measured displacements and computed stresses in the cytoskeleton of a living cell plated on extracellular matrix molecules that arise in response to a small, external localized oscillatory load applied to transmembrane receptors on the apical cell surface. Induced synchronous displacements, stresses, and phase lags were found to be concentrated at sites quite remote from the localized load and were modulated by the preexisting tensile stress (prestress) in the cytoskeleton. Stresses applied at the apical surface also resulted in displacements of focal adhesion sites at the cell base. Cytoskeletal anisotropy was revealed by differential phase lags in X vs. Y directions. Displacements and stresses in the cytoskeleton of a cell plated on poly-L-lysine decayed quickly and were not concentrated at remote sites. These data indicate that mechanical forces are transferred across discrete cytoskeletal elements over long distances through the cytoplasm in the living adherent cell.

mechanical forces; deformation; focal adhesion; microfilament


Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: N. Wang, Physiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115 (E-mail: nwang{at}hsph.harvard.edu).




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