“Cell membrane roughness has been proposed as a sensitive feature to reflect cellular physiological conditions”*
In the article “Substrate properties modulate cell membrane roughness by way of actin filaments” Chao-Hung Chang, Hsiao-Hui Lee, and Chau-Hwang Lee employed the non-interferometric wide-field optical profilometry (NIWOP) technique to measure the membrane roughness of living mouse embryonic fibroblasts with different conditions of the culture substrate to find out whether membrane roughness is associated with the substrate properties. By controlling the surface density of fibronectin (FN) coated on the substrate, they found that cells exhibited higher membrane roughness as the FN density increased in company with larger focal adhesion (FA) sizes.
The examination of membrane roughness was also confirmed with atomic force microscopy.
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Supplementary Figure S1 from Chao-Hung Chang et al. “Substrate properties modulate cell membrane roughness by way of actin filaments”: Images of membrane topography determined by atomic force microscopy (AFM). MEFs were seeded on the polymer coverslip-bottom μ-dishes coated with 0 or 10 μg/ml FN for 6 hours for the measurement of membrane roughness by AFM. The regions marked by the white squares in the bright-field images are displayed in the membrane topography. Scale bar, 10 μm.
*Chao-Hung Chang, Hsiao-Hui Lee, Chau-Hwang Lee
Substrate properties modulate cell membrane roughness by way of actin filaments
Nature Scientific Reports, volume 7, Article number: 9068 (2017)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09618-y
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