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Physiological Reviews, Vol. 81, No. 2, April 2001, pp. 685-740
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society

Molecular Basis of Mechanotransduction in Living Cells

Owen P. Hamill and Boris Martinac

Physiology and Biophysics, University Of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; and Department of Pharmacology, University Of Western Australia, Nedlands, West Australia

Hamill, Owen P. and Boris Martinac. Molecular Basis of Mechanotransduction in Living Cells. Physiol. Rev. 81: 685-740, 2001.The simplest cell-like structure, the lipid bilayer vesicle, can respond to mechanical deformation by elastic membrane dilation/thinning and curvature changes. When a protein is inserted in the lipid bilayer, an energetic cost may arise because of hydrophobic mismatch between the protein and bilayer. Localized changes in bilayer thickness and curvature may compensate for this mismatch. The peptides alamethicin and gramicidin and the bacterial membrane protein MscL form mechanically gated (MG) channels when inserted in lipid bilayers. Their mechanosensitivity may arise because channel opening is associated with a change in the protein's membrane-occupied area, its hydrophobic mismatch with the bilayer, excluded water volume, or a combination of these effects. As a consequence, bilayer dilation/thinning or changes in local membrane curvature may shift the equilibrium between channel conformations. Recent evidence indicates that MG channels in specific animal cell types (e.g., Xenopus oocytes) are also gated directly by bilayer tension. However, animal cells lack the rigid cell wall that protects bacteria and plants cells from excessive expansion of their bilayer. Instead, a cortical cytoskeleton (CSK) provides a structural framework that allows the animal cell to maintain a stable excess membrane area (i.e., for its volume occupied by a sphere) in the form of membrane folds, ruffles, and microvilli. This excess membrane provides an immediate membrane reserve that may protect the bilayer from sudden changes in bilayer tension. Contractile elements within the CSK may locally slacken or tighten bilayer tension to regulate mechanosensitivity, whereas membrane blebbing and tight seal patch formation, by using up membrane reserves, may increase membrane mechanosensitivity. In specific cases, extracellular and/or CSK proteins (i.e., tethers) may transmit mechanical forces to the process (e.g., hair cell MG channels, MS intracellular Ca2+ release, and transmitter release) without increasing tension in the lipid bilayer.




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Epithelial Na+ Channels Are Activated by Laminar Shear Stress
J. Biol. Chem., February 6, 2004; 279(6): 4120 - 4126.
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J Exp BotHome page
X. Wan, E. Steudle, and W. Hartung
Gating of water channels (aquaporins) in cortical cells of young corn roots by mechanical stimuli (pressure pulses): effects of ABA and of HgCl2
J. Exp. Bot., February 1, 2004; 55(396): 411 - 422.
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CirculationHome page
S. Samii, M. H. Khan, D. A. MacLean, N. King, M. D. Herr, and L. I. Sinoway
Muscle Interstitial Calcium During Head-Up Tilt in Humans
Circulation, January 20, 2004; 109(2): 215 - 219.
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J. Physiol.Home page
V. P Zagorodnyuk, B. N. Chen, M. Costa, and S. J H Brookes
Mechanotransduction by intraganglionic laminar endings of vagal tension receptors in the guinea-pig oesophagus
J. Physiol., December 1, 2003; 553(2): 575 - 587.
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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
W. Liedtke and J. M. Friedman
Abnormal osmotic regulation in trpv4-/- mice
PNAS, November 11, 2003; 100(23): 13698 - 13703.
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J. Cell Sci.Home page
E. Decave, D. Rieu, J. Dalous, S. Fache, Y. Brechet, B. Fourcade, M. Satre, and F. Bruckert
Shear flow-induced motility of Dictyostelium discoideum cells on solid substrate
J. Cell Sci., November 1, 2003; 116(21): 4331 - 4343.
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J. Physiol.Home page
S. J Haug, D. G Welsh, and S. S Segal
Sympathetic Nerves Inhibit Conducted Vasodilatation Along Feed Arteries during Passive Stretch of Hamster Skeletal Muscle
J. Physiol., October 1, 2003; 552(1): 273 - 282.
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Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol.Home page
S. Ben-Tabou De-Leon, E. Blotnick, and I. Nussinovitch
Effects of osmotic swelling on voltage-gated calcium channel currents in rat anterior pituitary cells
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, October 1, 2003; 285(4): C840 - C852.
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Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol.Home page
E. C. Y. Wang, J.-M. Lee, J. P. Johnson, T. R. Kleyman, R. Bridges, and G. Apodaca
Hydrostatic pressure-regulated ion transport in bladder uroepithelium
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol, October 1, 2003; 285(4): F651 - F663.
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JDRHome page
H. Magloire, F. Lesage, M.L. Couble, M. Lazdunski, and F. Bleicher
Expression and Localization of TREK-1 K+ Channels in Human Odontoblasts
Journal of Dental Research, July 1, 2003; 82(7): 542 - 545.
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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
X.-L. Zhou, A. F. Batiza, S. H. Loukin, C. P. Palmer, C. Kung, and Y. Saimi
The transient receptor potential channel on the yeast vacuole is mechanosensitive
PNAS, June 10, 2003; 100(12): 7105 - 7110.
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J. Cell Sci.Home page
N. Bettache, L. Baisamy, S. Baghdiguian, B. Payrastre, P. Mangeat, and A. Bienvenue
Mechanical constraint imposed on plasma membrane through transverse phospholipid imbalance induces reversible actin polymerization via phosphoinositide 3-kinase activation
J. Cell Sci., June 1, 2003; 116(11): 2277 - 2284.
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J. Biol. Chem.Home page
J. A. Maurer and D. A. Dougherty
Generation and Evaluation of a Large Mutational Library from the Escherichia coli Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance, MscL: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHANNEL GATING AND EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN
J. Biol. Chem., May 30, 2003; 278(23): 21076 - 21082.
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J. Biol. Chem.Home page
A. Kumar, A. J. Knox, and A. M. Boriek
CCAAT/Enhancer-binding Protein and Activator Protein-1 Transcription Factors Regulate the Expression of Interleukin-8 through the Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Pathways in Response to Mechanical Stretch of Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells
J. Biol. Chem., May 23, 2003; 278(21): 18868 - 18876.
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Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol.Home page
A. P. Seale, N. H. Richman III, T. Hirano, I. Cooke, and E. G. Grau
Evidence that signal transduction for osmoreception is mediated by stretch-activated ion channels in tilapia
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, May 1, 2003; 284(5): C1290 - C1296.
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Physiol. Rev.Home page
K. Strange
From Genes to Integrative Physiology: Ion Channel and Transporter Biology in Caenorhabditis elegans
Physiol Rev, April 1, 2003; 83(2): 377 - 415.
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J. Biol. Chem.Home page
P. Koprowski and A. Kubalski
C Termini of the Escherichia coli Mechanosensitive Ion Channel (MscS) Move Apart upon the Channel Opening
J. Biol. Chem., March 21, 2003; 278(13): 11237 - 11245.
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J. Physiol.Home page
J. Aleu, M. Martin-Satue, P. Navarro, I. P. de Lara, L. Bahima, J. Marsal, and C. Solsona
Release of ATP induced by hypertonic solutions in Xenopus oocytes
J. Physiol., February 15, 2003; 547(1): 209 - 219.
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X. Gasull, E. Ferrer, A. Llobet, A. Castellano, J. M. Nicolas, J. Pales, and A. Gual
Cell Membrane Stretch Modulates the High-Conductance Ca2+-Activated K+ Channel in Bovine Trabecular Meshwork Cells
Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci., February 1, 2003; 44(2): 706 - 714.
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J. Biol. Chem.Home page
Y. Ou, P. Strege, S. M. Miller, J. Makielski, M. Ackerman, S. J. Gibbons, and G. Farrugia
Syntrophin gamma 2 Regulates SCN5A Gating by a PDZ Domain-mediated Interaction
J. Biol. Chem., January 10, 2003; 278(3): 1915 - 1923.
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Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol.Home page
A. Koller and Z. Bagi
On the role of mechanosensitive mechanisms eliciting reactive hyperemia
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, December 1, 2002; 283(6): H2250 - H2259.
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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.Home page
N. E. Vlahakis, M. A. Schroeder, R. E. Pagano, and R. D. Hubmayr
Role of Deformation-induced Lipid Trafficking in the Prevention of Plasma Membrane Stress Failure
Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., November 1, 2002; 166(9): 1282 - 1289.
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J. Biol. Chem.Home page
R. E. Oswald, T. M. Suchyna, R. McFeeters, P. Gottlieb, and F. Sachs
Solution Structure of Peptide Toxins That Block Mechanosensitive Ion Channels
J. Biol. Chem., September 6, 2002; 277(37): 34443 - 34450.
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Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol.Home page
C. M. Waters, P. H. S. Sporn, M. Liu, and J. J. Fredberg
Cellular biomechanics in the lung
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol, September 1, 2002; 283(3): L503 - L509.
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Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol.Home page
G. L. Lyford, P. R. Strege, A. Shepard, Y. Ou, L. Ermilov, S. M. Miller, S. J. Gibbons, J. L. Rae, J. H. Szurszewski, and G. Farrugia
alpha 1C (CaV1.2) L-type calcium channel mediates mechanosensitive calcium regulation
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, September 1, 2002; 283(3): C1001 - C1008.
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J. Biol. Chem.Home page
K. Okada, P. C. Moe, and P. Blount
Functional Design of Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channels. COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS ILLUMINATED BY RANDOM MUTAGENESIS
J. Biol. Chem., July 26, 2002; 277(31): 27682 - 27688.
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