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ArticleNature physics2023

Scaling behaviour and control of nuclear wrinkling.

Jonathan A Jackson, Nicolas Romeo, Alexander Mietke, Keaton J Burns, Jan F Totz, Adam C Martin, Jörn Dunkel, Jasmin Imran Alsous

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Article in Nature physics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Jonathan A JacksonDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nicolas RomeoDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alexander MietkeDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Keaton J BurnsDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jan F TotzDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Adam C MartinDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jörn DunkelDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jasmin Imran AlsousCenter for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation.

Funding

MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING GRANTT32GM008313 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI MURTHY, VENKATESH N · 1989 to 2023
$14.6M
Tissue morphogenesis: From signals to forcesR35GM144115 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Adam Christopher Martin · 2022 to 2026
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM144115NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008313
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 characterize the onset and dynamics of nuclear wrinkling during egg development in the fruit fly when nurse cell nuclei increase in size and display stereotypical wrinkling behavior. A spectral analysis of three-dimensional high-resolution live imaging 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 tuneable 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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PMID38831923
PMCPMC11146749

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