矩阵阻塞通过抑制领导细胞功能,导致集体上皮质迁移的多层次干扰.
Ye Lim Lee1, Jairaj Mathur2, Christopher Walter2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130.
Molecular biology of the cell
|June 28, 2023
概括
皮质细胞在遇到密集的障碍物时会减慢速度并失去方向,这种现象受到细胞-细胞粘附和突起的影响. 这种阻碍敏感性可能定义细胞的集体迁移"机制".
科学领域:
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 生物物理学的生物物理.
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
背景情况:
- 细胞外基质的物理变化会在疾病和发育过程中影响上皮细胞迁移.
- 矩阵拓学中断对集体细胞迁移速度和协调的影响尚未完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 调查微纤维基质阻塞如何影响集体上皮细胞迁移.
- 识别导致对拓障碍物敏感的细胞机制.
主要方法:
- 基板的微制造具有精确控制的茎体几何,密度和方向.
- 在阻塞的基板上对上皮细胞迁移的实时成像.
- 基于格子的计算模型的开发和应用.
- 使用不同凝聚度的MDCK和MCF10A细胞系进行实验验证.
主要成果:
- 密集的障碍物显著降低了集体细胞迁移的速度和方向性.
- 障碍物诱导细胞软化,与在平面基板上的领导细胞中观察到的增加硬度形成鲜明对比.
- 细胞-细胞粘附和细胞突起之间的平衡对于阻碍敏感迁移至关重要.
- 与野生型MCF10A细胞相比,MDCK和α-catenin枯竭的MCF10A细胞具有较低的阻塞敏感性.
结论:
- 皮质细胞具有"阻碍敏感性",使它们能够应对拓挑战.
- 这种敏感性是由微观细胞软化,中等尺度乱和宏观多细胞通信的组合所支配的.
- 阻塞敏感性可以作为定义细胞"机制"的集体迁移,同时保持细胞间通信.
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