title: Unconventional mechanics of lipid membranes: a potential role for mechanotransduction of hair cell stereocilia.
abstract: A force-conveying role of the lipid membrane across various mechanoreceptors is now an accepted hypothesis. However, such a mechanism is still not fully understood for mechanotransduction in the hair bundle of auditory sensory hair cells. A major goal of this theoretical assessment was to investigate the role of the lipid membrane in auditory mechanotransduction, especially in generating nonlinear bundle force versus displacement measurements, one of the main features of auditory mechanotransduction. To this end, a hair bundle model that generates lipid membrane tented deformation in the stereocilia was developed. A computational analysis of the model not only reproduced nonlinear bundle force measurements but also generated membrane energy that is potentially sufficient to activate the mechanosensitive ion channel of the hair cell. In addition, the model provides biophysical insight into 1) the likelihood that the channel must be linked in some way to the tip link; 2) how the interplay of the bending and stretching of the lipid bilayer may be responsible for the nonlinear force versus displacement response; 3) how measurements of negative stiffness may be a function of the rotational stiffness of the rootlets; and 4) how the standing tension of the tip link is required to interpret migration of the nonlinear force versus displacement and activation curves. These are all features of hair cell mechanotransduction, but the underlying biophysical mechanism has proved elusive for the last three decades.
authors: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Electronic address: jichul0kim@gmail.com.
authors: Jichul
authors: J
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D006198:Hair Cells, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry; D040542:Mechanotransduction, Cellular; D008954:Models, Biological; D059547:Stereocilia / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014426:Turtles / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008055:Lipids
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