Abstract:
:The strength of receptor-mediated cell adhesion is directly controlled by the mechanism of cohesive failure between the cell surface and underlying substrate. Unbinding can occur either at the locus of the specific bond or within the bilayer, which results in tearing the hydrophobic anchors from the membrane interior. In this work, the surface force apparatus has been used to investigate the relationship between the receptor-ligand bond affinities and the dominant mechanism of receptor-coupled membrane detachment. The receptors and ligands used in this study were membrane-bound streptavidin and biotin analogs, respectively, with solution affinities ranging over 10 orders of magnitude. With the optical technique of the surface force apparatus, the occurrence of membrane rupture was directly visualized in situ. The latter observations together with measurements of the corresponding intermembrane adhesive strengths were used to identify the dominant failure pathway for each streptavidin-analog pair. Even in cases where the membrane pull-out energy exceeded the equilibrium bond energy, cohesive failure occurred within the membrane interior at nearly all bond affinities considered. These results are consistent with previous findings and provide direct support for the commonly held view that, under nonequilibrium conditions of applied external stress, the gradient of the bond energy, not the equilibrium bond energy alone, determines the adhesive strength. Furthermore, our findings directly demonstrate that, in the presence of competing failure mechanisms, the preferred detachment mechanism- hence, the adhesive strength-will be determined by the bond that exhibits the weakest tensile strength. Because the tensile strength is determined by the gradient of the unbinding energy, the critical detachment force will be determined by both the bond energy and the effective bond length.
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Biophys Jjournal_title
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Leckband D,Müller W,Schmitt FJ,Ringsdorf Hdoi
10.1016/S0006-3495(95)79990-8subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-09-01 00:00:00pages
1162-9issue
3eissn
0006-3495issn
1542-0086pii
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69pub_type
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