アピカル収縮は組織規模の水力動力学的流れを駆動し,細胞の伸びを媒介する
Bing He1, Konstantin Doubrovinski1, Oleg Polyakov2
11] Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA [2].
Nature
|March 5, 2014
まとめ
発達中の組織変形は,細胞内の力の伝達方法に依存しています. この研究は,個々の細胞の形状の変化ではなく,細胞プラズマの粘着性流が,ドロソフィラ胚の組織折り畳みを誘導することを示しています.
科学分野:
- 発達生物学 発達生物学とは
- 細胞生物学 細胞生物学
- バイオフィジックス 生物物理学
背景:
- 皮質の折り畳みは,動物の発達中の組織形成に不可欠です.
- 頂上収縮から全体的な組織変形への力を伝達するメカニズムは完全に理解されていません.
研究 の 目的:
- 組織形態変異の過程でアピカル収縮によって生成される力が細胞内でどのように伝達されるかを調査する.
- ベントラルフォロー形成におけるサイトプラズマの流れと細胞個別化の役割を明らかにする.
主な方法:
- 粒子追跡速度計は,サイトプラズマおよびプラズマ膜の動きを測定するために使用されました.
- 実験は,無細胞変異体を含む,胃化するドロソフィラ胚で実施された.
主要な成果:
- 腹腔の延長中の細胞質再分配は,水力力学によって予測される粘着性の流れパターンに従います.
- 細胞膜は,細胞プラズマの流れに対して最小限の抵抗または推進力を発揮します.
- アセルラー胚のアピカル収縮は,野生型胚の細胞質流動パターンに類似するシトプラズマ流動パターンを発生させる.
結論:
- 細胞プラズマの水力動力学的行動は,腹腔の延長中に力伝達の主要なメカニズムである.
- 細胞の個別化は,この過程で観察される全体的な組織変形に不可欠ではありません.
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