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. 1988 May;53(5):677–687. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(88)83149-7

Interaction forces between red cells agglutinated by antibody. III. Micromanipulation.

S P Tha 1, H L Goldsmith 1
PMCID: PMC1330246  PMID: 3134058

Abstract

In the flow studies described in two previous papers (Tha, S. P., and H. L. Goldsmith, 1986, Biophys. J. 50:1109-1116; Tha, S. P., J. Shuster, and H. L. Goldsmith, 1986, Biophys. J. 50:1117-1126), hydrodynamic forces of the order of 10(-11) N (mu dyn) were applied to measure the force of separation of doublets of hardened, sphered human red blood cells cross-linked by anti-B antibody. The same cell preparation and hyperimmune antiserum has here been used to carry out experiments with micropipet aspiration techniques. One cell of a doublet was aspirated onto a holding pipet, and a second aspiration pipet was brought into proximity of the other cell so that the two pipets and the doublet were colinear. Suction was then raised until the two cells separated. Some doublets were assembled by aspiration of a singlet, bringing a second singlet into apposition with the first, and releasing it from the pipet which was then withdrawn. Cells could be repeatedly assembled and separated. At 3.56% vol/vol antiserum, the mean normal force of separation was 0.45 +/- 0.11 nN in phosphate-buffered saline suspensions containing 2.5 x 10(4) cells/microliter; at 1.22% vol/vol antiserum, the value was 0.22 +/- 0.11 nN. The above values of the force were approximately 2.5 x greater than those from the flow studies. The data could be fitted to a Poisson distribution with 0.05 nN as the force needed to break a single cross-bridge (c.f. 0.024 nN from the previous hydrodynamic data). The forces of separation of randomly assembled doublets were lower than those of preexisting doublets. Repeated assembly and separation of doublets showed that the cell surfaces are nonuniform in adhesion strength both over the local scale less than 0.25 micron2 and the cell population.

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