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Title: | Stiffness-dependent active wetting enables optimal collective cell durotaxis |
Author: | Pallarès, Macià Esteve Pi Jaumà, Irina Fortunato, Isabela Corina Grazu, Valeria Gómez González, Manuel Roca-Cusachs Soulere, Pere Fuente, Jesus M. de la Alert Zenón, Ricard Sunyer, Raimon Casademunt i Viader, Jaume Trepat Guixer, Xavier |
Keywords: | Migració cel·lular Glicoproteïnes Cell migration Glycoproteins |
Issue Date: | 1-Feb-2023 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Abstract: | The directed migration of cellular clusters enables morphogenesis, wound healing and collective cancer invasion. Gradients of substrate stiffness direct the migration of cellular clusters in a process called collective durotaxis, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here we unveil a connection between collective durotaxis and the wetting properties of cellular clusters. We show that clusters of cancer cells dewet soft substrates and wet stiff ones. At intermediate stiffness—at the crossover from low to high wettability—clusters on uniform-stiffness substrates become maximally motile, and clusters on stiffness gradients exhibit optimal durotaxis. Durotactic velocity increases with cluster size, stiffness gradient and actomyosin activity. We demonstrate this behaviour on substrates coated with the cell–cell adhesion protein E-cadherin and then establish its generality on substrates coated with extracellular matrix. We develop an active wetting model that explains collective durotaxis in terms of a balance between in-plane active traction and tissue contractility and out-of-plane surface tension. Finally, we show that the distribution of cluster displacements has a heavy tail, with infrequent but large cellular hops that contribute to durotactic migration. Our study demonstrates a physical mechanism of collective durotaxis, through both cell–cell and cell–substrate adhesion ligands, based on the wetting properties of active droplets. |
Note: | Postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01835-1 |
It is part of: | Nature Pysics, 2023, vol. 19, pag. 279–289 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/191554 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01835-1 |
ISSN: | 1745-2481 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC)) |
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