Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 5133-5139Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nr09483c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [2137008, 2137902]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [3388]
- National Institute of Health [1R01GM124335-01]
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Cellular membranes are important biomaterials with highly dynamic structures. Membrane dynamics plays an important role in numerous cellular processes, but precise tracking it is challenging due to the lack of tools with a highly sensitive and fast detection capability. Here we demonstrate a broad bandwidth optical imaging technique to measure cellular membrane displacements in the normal direction at subnm level detection limits and 20 ps temporal resolution (1 Hz-50 kHz). This capability allows us to study the intrinsic cellular membrane dynamics over a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. We measured the nanometer-scale stochastic fluctuations of the plasma membrane of HEK-293 cells, and found them to be highly dependent on the cytoskeletal structure of the cells. By analyzing the fluctuations, we further determine the mechanical properties of the cellular membranes. We anticipate that the method will contribute to the understanding of the basic cellular processes, and applications, such as mechanical phenotyping of cells at the single-cell level
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