Nanodiamond-based spatial-temporal deformation sensing for cell mechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18577v2
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:37:16 GMT
• Title: Nanodiamond-based spatial-temporal deformation sensing for cell mechanics
• Authors: Yue Cui, Weng-Hang Leong, Guoli Zhu, Ren-Bao Liu, Quan Li,
• Abstract summary: The study lays down a foundation for understanding a broad range of elastocapillarity-related interfacial mechanics and mechanobiological processes in live cells.
• Score: 3.7300938460484407
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Precise assessment of the mechanical properties of soft biological systems at the nanoscale is crucial for understanding physiology, pathology, and developing relevant drugs. Conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based indentation methods suffer from uncertainties in local tip-sample interactions and model choice. This can be overcome by adopting spatially resolved nonlocal deformation sensing for mechanical analysis. However, the technique is currently limited to lifeless/static systems, due to the inadequate spatial or temporal resolution, or difficulties in differentiating the indentation-induced deformation from that associated with live activities and other external perturbations. Here, we develop an innovative dynamic nonlocal deformation sensing approach allowing both spatially and temporally resolved mechanical analysis, which achieves a tens of microsecond time-lag precision, a nanometer vertical deformation precision, and a sub-hundred nanometer lateral spatial resolution. Using oscillatory nanoindentation and spectroscopic analysis, the method can separate the indentation-caused signal from random noise, enabling live cell measurement. Using this method, we discover a distance-dependent phase of surface deformation during indentation, leading to the disclosure of surface tension effects (capillarity) in the mechanical response of live cells upon AFM indentation. A viscoelastic model with surface tension is used to enable simultaneous quantification of the viscoelasticity and capillarity of cell. We show that neglecting surface tension, as in conventional AFM methods, would underestimate the liquid-like characteristics and overestimate the apparent viscoelastic modulus of cells. The study lays down a foundation for understanding a broad range of elastocapillarity-related interfacial mechanics and mechanobiological processes in live cells.

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