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ArticleJournal of biological physics2013

Anomalies in the motion dynamics of long-flagella mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Dolly K Khona, Venkatramanan G Rao, Mustafa J Motiwalla, P C Sreekrishna Varma, Anisha R Kashyap, Koyel Das, Seema M Shirolikar, Lalit Borde, Jayashree A Dharmadhikari, Aditya K Dharmadhikari and 3 more

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Article in Journal of biological physics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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13 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Dolly K KhonaUM-DAE-Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Biological Sciences, Kalina campus, Santacruz (E), Mumbai, 400 098, India.
Venkatramanan G Rao
Mustafa J Motiwalla
P C Sreekrishna Varma
Anisha R Kashyap
Koyel Das
Seema M Shirolikar
Lalit Borde
Jayashree A Dharmadhikari
Aditya K Dharmadhikari
Siuli Mukhopadhyay
Deepak Mathur
Jacinta S D'Souza
Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences · INTata Institute of Fundamental Research · INIndian Institute of Technology Bombay · INK J Somaiya Medical College · IN

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Abstract

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has long been used as a model organism in studies of cell motility and flagellar dynamics. The motility of the well-conserved '9+2' axoneme in its flagella remains a subject of immense curiosity. Using high-speed videography and morphological analyses, we have characterized long-flagella mutants (lf1, lf2-1, lf2-5, lf3-2, and lf4) of C. reinhardtii for biophysical parameters such as swimming velocities, waveforms, beat frequencies, and swimming trajectories. These mutants are aberrant in proteins involved in the regulation of flagellar length and bring about a phenotypic increase in this length. Our results reveal that the flagellar beat frequency and swimming velocity are negatively correlated with the length of the flagella. When compared to the wild-type, any increase in the flagellar length reduces both the swimming velocities (by 26-57%) and beat frequencies (by 8-16%). We demonstrate that with no apparent aberrations/ultrastructural deformities in the mutant axonemes, it is this increased length that has a critical role to play in the motion dynamics of C. reinhardtii cells, and, provided there are no significant changes in their flagellar proteome, any increase in this length compromises the swimming velocity either by reduction of the beat frequency or by an alteration in the waveform of the flagella.

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MovementMutationChlamydomonas reinhardtiiDyneinsFlagellaDyneins

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PMID23860831
PMCPMC3532669
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