FIGURE 3:

Measuring mechanical properties of fission yeast cells. (A) Modeling the cell wall as an elastic shell that is inflated by turgor pressure. (B) The cell shrinks upon loss of turgor. Bright-field images of a fission yeast cell before (top) and after (bottom) turgor pressure has been released via a laser cut to the cell surface. Reproduced with permission from Atilgan et al. (2015). (C) Images of fission yeast cells inserted into microfabricated chambers of varying stiffness (left to right: hard to soft) to measure cellular mechanical properties. Reproduced with permission from Minc et al. (2009). Scale bars, 5 μm.