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Sadhukhan S, Nandi MK, Pandey S, Paoluzzi M, Dasgupta C, Gov NS, Nandi SK. Motility driven glassy dynamics in confluent epithelial monolayers. SOFT MATTER 2024; 20:6160-6175. [PMID: 39044639 DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00352g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2024]
Abstract
As wounds heal, embryos develop, cancer spreads, or asthma progresses, the cellular monolayer undergoes a glass transition between solid-like jammed and fluid-like flowing states. During some of these processes, the cells undergo an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT): they acquire in-plane polarity and become motile. Thus, how motility drives the glassy dynamics in epithelial systems is critical for the EMT process. However, no analytical framework that is indispensable for deeper insights exists. Here, we develop such a theory inspired by a well-known glass theory. One crucial result of this work is that the confluency affects the effective persistence time-scale of active force, described by its rotational diffusivity, Deffr. Deffr differs from the bare rotational diffusivity, Dr, of the motile force due to cell shape dynamics, which acts to rectify the force dynamics: Deffr is equal to Dr when Dr is small and saturates when Dr is large. We test the theoretical prediction of Deffr and how it affects the relaxation dynamics in our simulations of the active Vertex model. This novel effect of Deffr is crucial to understanding the new and previously published simulation data of active glassy dynamics in epithelial monolayers.
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Affiliation(s)
- Souvik Sadhukhan
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 36/P Gopanpally Village, Hyderabad-500046, India.
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron 69500, France
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 36/P Gopanpally Village, Hyderabad-500046, India.
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
- International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore 560089, India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 36/P Gopanpally Village, Hyderabad-500046, India.
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Anjum S, Turner L, Atieh Y, Eisenhoffer GT, Davidson L. Assessing mechanical agency during apical apoptotic cell extrusion. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.10.26.564227. [PMID: 37961593 PMCID: PMC10634859 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.26.564227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Epithelial tissues maintain homeostasis through the continual addition and removal of cells. Homeostasis is necessary for epithelia to maintain barrier function and prevent the accumulation of defective cells. Unfit, excess, and dying cells can be removed from epithelia by the process of extrusion. Controlled cell death and extrusion in the epithelium of the larval zebrafish tail fin coincides with oscillation of cell area, both in the extruding cell and its neighbors. Both cell-autonomous and non-autonomous factors have been proposed to contribute to extrusion but have been challenging to test by experimental approaches. Here we develop a dynamic cell-based biophysical model that recapitulates the process of oscillatory cell extrusion to test and compare the relative contributions of these factors. Our model incorporates the mechanical properties of individual epithelial cells in a two-dimensional simulation as repelling active particles. The area of cells destined to extrude oscillates with varying durations or amplitudes, decreasing their mechanical contribution to the epithelium and surrendering their space to surrounding cells. Quantitative variations in cell shape and size during extrusion are visualized by a hybrid weighted Voronoi tessellation technique that renders individual cell mechanical properties directly into an epithelial sheet. To explore the role of autonomous and non-autonomous mechanics, we vary the biophysical properties and behaviors of extruding cells and neighbors such as the period and amplitude of repulsive forces, cell density, and tissue viscosity. Our data suggest that cell autonomous processes are major contributors to the dynamics of extrusion, with the mechanical microenvironment providing a less pronounced contribution. Our computational model based on in vivo data serves as a tool to provide insights into the cellular dynamics and localized changes in mechanics that promote elimination of unwanted cells from epithelia during homeostatic tissue maintenance.
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- Sommer Anjum
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
- Genetics and Epigenetics Graduate Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
- Genetics and Epigenetics Graduate Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Fletcher AG, Osborne JM. Seven challenges in the multiscale modeling of multicellular tissues. WIREs Mech Dis 2022; 14:e1527. [PMID: 35023326 DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The growth and dynamics of multicellular tissues involve tightly regulated and coordinated morphogenetic cell behaviors, such as shape changes, movement, and division, which are governed by subcellular machinery and involve coupling through short- and long-range signals. A key challenge in the fields of developmental biology, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine is to understand how relationships between scales produce emergent tissue-scale behaviors. Recent advances in molecular biology, live-imaging and ex vivo techniques have revolutionized our ability to study these processes experimentally. To fully leverage these techniques and obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the causal relationships underlying tissue dynamics, computational modeling approaches are increasingly spanning multiple spatial and temporal scales, and are coupling cell shape, growth, mechanics, and signaling. Yet such models remain challenging: modeling at each scale requires different areas of technical skills, while integration across scales necessitates the solution to novel mathematical and computational problems. This review aims to summarize recent progress in multiscale modeling of multicellular tissues and to highlight ongoing challenges associated with the construction, implementation, interrogation, and validation of such models. This article is categorized under: Reproductive System Diseases > Computational Models Metabolic Diseases > Computational Models Cancer > Computational Models.
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- Alexander G Fletcher
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.,Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Sadhukhan S, Nandi SK. On the origin of universal cell shape variability in confluent epithelial monolayers. eLife 2022; 11:76406. [PMID: 36563034 PMCID: PMC9833828 DOI: 10.7554/elife.76406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Cell shape is fundamental in biology. The average cell shape can influence crucial biological functions, such as cell fate and division orientation. But cell-to-cell shape variability is often regarded as noise. In contrast, recent works reveal that shape variability in diverse epithelial monolayers follows a nearly universal distribution. However, the origin and implications of this universality remain unclear. Here, assuming contractility and adhesion are crucial for cell shape, characterized via aspect ratio (r), we develop a mean-field analytical theory for shape variability. We find that all the system-specific details combine into a single parameter α that governs the probability distribution function (PDF) of r; this leads to a universal relation between the standard deviation and the average of r. The PDF for the scaled r is not strictly but nearly universal. In addition, we obtain the scaled area distribution, described by the parameter μ. Information of α and μ together can distinguish the effects of changing physical conditions, such as maturation, on different system properties. We have verified the theory via simulations of two distinct models of epithelial monolayers and with existing experiments on diverse systems. We demonstrate that in a confluent monolayer, average shape determines both the shape variability and dynamics. Our results imply that cell shape distribution is inevitable, where a single parameter describes both statics and dynamics and provides a framework to analyze and compare diverse epithelial systems. In contrast to existing theories, our work shows that the universal properties are consequences of a mathematical property and should be valid in general, even in the fluid regime.
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Antonovici CC, Peerdeman GY, Wolff HB, Merks RMH. Modeling Plant Tissue Development Using VirtualLeaf. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2395:165-198. [PMID: 34822154 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1816-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Cell-based computational modeling and simulation are becoming invaluable tools in analyzing plant development. In a cell-based simulation model, the inputs are behaviors and dynamics of individual cells and the rules describing responses to signals from adjacent cells. The outputs are the growing tissues, shapes, and cell-differentiation patterns that emerge from the local, chemical, and biomechanical cell-cell interactions. In this updated and extended version of our previous chapter on VirtualLeaf (Merks and Guravage, Methods in Molecular Biology 959, 333-352), we present a step-by-step, practical tutorial for building cell-based simulations of plant development and for analyzing the influence of parameters on simulation outcomes by systematically changing the values of the parameters and analyzing each outcome. We show how to build a model of a growing tissue, a reaction-diffusion system on a growing domain, and an auxin transport model. Moreover, in addition to the previous publication, we demonstrate how to run a Turing system on a regular, rectangular lattice, and how to run parameter sweeps. The aim of VirtualLeaf is to make computational modeling more accessible to experimental plant biologists with relatively little computational background.
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- Claudiu-Cristi Antonovici
- Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Applied Sciences Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Mjolsness E. Prospects for Declarative Mathematical Modeling of Complex Biological Systems. Bull Math Biol 2019; 81:3385-3420. [PMID: 31175549 PMCID: PMC6677696 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-019-00628-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Declarative modeling uses symbolic expressions to represent models. With such expressions, one can formalize high-level mathematical computations on models that would be difficult or impossible to perform directly on a lower-level simulation program, in a general-purpose programming language. Examples of such computations on models include model analysis, relatively general-purpose model reduction maps, and the initial phases of model implementation, all of which should preserve or approximate the mathematical semantics of a complex biological model. The potential advantages are particularly relevant in the case of developmental modeling, wherein complex spatial structures exhibit dynamics at molecular, cellular, and organogenic levels to relate genotype to multicellular phenotype. Multiscale modeling can benefit from both the expressive power of declarative modeling languages and the application of model reduction methods to link models across scale. Based on previous work, here we define declarative modeling of complex biological systems by defining the operator algebra semantics of an increasingly powerful series of declarative modeling languages including reaction-like dynamics of parameterized and extended objects; we define semantics-preserving implementation and semantics-approximating model reduction transformations; and we outline a “meta-hierarchy” for organizing declarative models and the mathematical methods that can fruitfully manipulate them.
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- Eric Mjolsness
- Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
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