Flagellar energetics from high-resolution imaging of beating patterns in tethered mouse sperm
- IITB-Monash Research Academy/ IIT Bombay/ Monash University, India
- University of Melbourne, Australia
- Monash University, Australia
- IITB-Monash Research Academy, India
Abstract
We demonstrate a technique for investigating the energetics of flagella or cilia. We record the planar beating of tethered mouse sperm at high-resolution. Beating waveforms are reconstructed using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of the centerline tangent-angle profiles. Energy conservation is employed to obtain the mechanical power exerted by the dynein motors from the observed kinematics. A large proportion of the mechanical power exerted by the dynein motors is dissipated internally by the motors themselves. There could also be significant dissipation within the passive structures of the flagellum. The total internal dissipation is considerably greater than the hydrodynamic dissipation in the aqueous medium outside. The net power input from the dynein motors in sperm from Crisp2-knockout mice is significantly smaller than in wildtype samples, indicating that ion-channel regulation by cysteine-rich secretory proteins (CRISPs) controls energy flows powering the axoneme.
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Source data files for all results figures have been provided.Videos of the WT and KO mice sperm samples are available for public access and download from the Monash University Research Repository (Ref. 64: DOI: 10.26180/5f50562bb322b)MATLAB Codes used to analyze the data to produce the results in the manuscript are available for public access and download from the Monash University Research Repository (Ref. 64: DOI: 10.26180/14045816}
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Author details
Ranganathan Prabhakar
Funding
Australian Research Council (DP190100343)
- Reza Nosrati
- Ranganathan Prabhakar
Australian Research Council (DP200100659)
- Moira K O'Bryan
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (BT/PR13442/MED/32/440/2015)
- Sameer Jadhav
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: This study was peformed in strict accordance with the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes. All of the animals were handled according to institutional animal care and use protocols approved by the Monash Animal Ethics committee (Approval # MARP/2014/084).
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© 2021, Nandagiri et al.
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Flagellar energetics from high-resolution imaging of beating patterns in tethered mouse sperm
eLife 10:e62524.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62524
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