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Pajic-Lijakovic I, Milivojevic M. Cell jamming-to-unjamming transitions and vice versa in development: Physical aspects. Biosystems 2023; 234:105045. [PMID: 37813238 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105045] [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] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/11/2023]
Abstract
Collective cell migration is essential for a wide range of biological processes such as: morphogenesis, wound healing, and cancer spreading. However, it is well known that migrating epithelial collectives frequently undergo jamming, stay trapped some period of time, and then start migration again. Consequently, only a part of epithelial cells actively contributes to the tissue development. In contrast to epithelial cells, migrating mesenchymal collectives successfully avoid the jamming. It has been confirmed that the epithelial unjamming cannot be treated as the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Some other mechanism is responsible for the epithelial jamming/unjamming. Despite extensive research devoted to study the cell jamming/unjamming, we still do not understand the origin of this phenomenon. The origin is connected to physical factors such as: the cell compressive residual stress accumulation and surface characteristics of migrating (unjamming) and resting (jamming) epithelial clusters which depend primarily on the strength of cell-cell adhesion contacts and cell contractility. The main goal of this theoretical consideration is to clarify these cause-consequence relations.
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- Ivana Pajic-Lijakovic
- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Belgrade University, Karnegijeva 4, Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Belgrade University, Karnegijeva 4, Belgrade, Serbia
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Blackley DG, Cooper JH, Pokorska P, Ratheesh A. Mechanics of developmental migration. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2021; 120:66-74. [PMID: 34275746 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The ability to migrate is a fundamental property of animal cells which is essential for development, homeostasis and disease progression. Migrating cells sense and respond to biochemical and mechanical cues by rapidly modifying their intrinsic repertoire of signalling molecules and by altering their force generating and transducing machinery. We have a wealth of information about the chemical cues and signalling responses that cells use during migration. Our understanding of the role of forces in cell migration is rapidly evolving but is still best understood in the context of cells migrating in 2D and 3D environments in vitro. Advances in live imaging of developing embryos combined with the use of experimental and theoretical tools to quantify and analyse forces in vivo, has begun to shed light on the role of mechanics in driving embryonic cell migration. In this review, we focus on the recent studies uncovering the physical basis of embryonic cell migration in vivo. We look at the physical basis of the classical steps of cell migration such as protrusion formation and cell body translocation and review the recent research on how these processes work in the complex 3D microenvironment of a developing organism.
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- Deannah G Blackley
- Warwick Medical School and Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Gibbet Hill Campus, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Warwick Medical School and Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Gibbet Hill Campus, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Warwick Medical School and Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Gibbet Hill Campus, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Warwick Medical School and Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Gibbet Hill Campus, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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De Marzio M, Kılıç A, Maiorino E, Mitchel JA, Mwase C, O'Sullivan MJ, McGill M, Chase R, Fredberg JJ, Park JA, Glass K, Weiss ST. Genomic signatures of the unjamming transition in compressed human bronchial epithelial cells. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/30/eabf1088. [PMID: 34301595 PMCID: PMC8302128 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf1088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Epithelial tissue can transition from a jammed, solid-like, quiescent phase to an unjammed, fluid-like, migratory phase, but the underlying molecular events of the unjamming transition (UJT) remain largely unexplored. Using primary human bronchial epithelial cells (HBECs) and one well-defined trigger of the UJT, compression mimicking the mechanical effects of bronchoconstriction, here, we combine RNA sequencing data with protein-protein interaction networks to provide the first genome-wide analysis of the UJT. Our results show that compression induces an early transcriptional activation of the membrane and actomyosin network and a delayed activation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) and cell-matrix networks. This response is associated with a signaling cascade that promotes actin polymerization and cellular motility through the coordinated interplay of downstream pathways including ERK, JNK, integrin signaling, and energy metabolism. Moreover, in nonasthmatic versus asthmatic HBECs, common genomic patterns associated with ECM remodeling suggest a molecular connection between airway remodeling, bronchoconstriction, and the UJT.
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- Margherita De Marzio
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Joy DA, Libby ARG, McDevitt TC. Deep neural net tracking of human pluripotent stem cells reveals intrinsic behaviors directing morphogenesis. Stem Cell Reports 2021; 16:1317-1330. [PMID: 33979602 PMCID: PMC8185472 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2021.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Lineage tracing is a powerful tool in developmental biology to interrogate the evolution of tissue formation, but the dense, three-dimensional nature of tissue limits the assembly of individual cell trajectories into complete reconstructions of development. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can recapitulate aspects of developmental processes, providing an in vitro platform to assess the dynamic collective behaviors directing tissue morphogenesis. Here, we trained an ensemble of neural networks to track individual hiPSCs in time-lapse microscopy, generating longitudinal measures of cell and cellular neighborhood properties on timescales from minutes to days. Our analysis reveals that, while individual cell parameters are not strongly affected by pluripotency maintenance conditions or morphogenic cues, regional changes in cell behavior predict cell fate and colony organization. By generating complete multicellular reconstructions of hiPSC behavior, our tracking pipeline enables fine-grained understanding of morphogenesis by elucidating the role of regional behavior in early tissue formation.
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- David A Joy
- UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA, USA; Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA; Developmental and Stem Cell Biology PhD Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Pritzker KPH, Darling MR, Hwang JTK, Mock D. Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders (OPMD): What is the clinical utility of dysplasia grade? Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2021; 21:289-298. [PMID: 33682567 DOI: 10.1080/14737159.2021.1898949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Oral epithelial dysplasia is considered a potential histologic precursor of subsequent squamous cell cancer. As standard clinical practice, pathologists grade dysplasia to assess risk for progression to malignancy. Except for the most advanced grade, severe dysplasia, dysplasia grading has failed to correlate well with the risk to develop invasive cancer. The questions of what process dysplasia grading best represents and what clinical utility dysplasia grading may have are explored. AREAS COVERED This narrative review is based on PubMed search with emphasis on papers since 2010. Epithelial dysplasia as a precursor lesion of cancer and dysplasia grading as a risk assessment tool for progression to cancer are discussed. The close clinical association of dysplasia with known carcinogens, alcohol, and tobacco products is presented. EXPERT OPINION Oral epithelial dysplasia is often, associated with prolonged exposure to tobacco and alcohol products. With reduction of carcinogen exposure, dysplasia is known to regress in some cases. It is proposed that histologic dysplasia grade together with macroscopic images of dysplastic clinical lesions be used as an educational tool to incentivize patients to reduce their known carcinogen exposure. This strategy has the potential to reduce lesion progression thereby reducing the disease burden of oral cancer.
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- Kenneth P H Pritzker
- Professor Emeritus, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology; Surgery University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Proteocyte Diagnostics Inc., Toronto, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University London Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.,Professor, Pathology/Oral Medicine & Dean Emeritus, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Dentistry, Dentistry Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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O'Sullivan MJ, Mitchel JA, Das A, Koehler S, Levine H, Bi D, Nagel ZD, Park JA. Irradiation Induces Epithelial Cell Unjamming. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8:21. [PMID: 32117962 PMCID: PMC7026004 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The healthy and mature epithelial layer is ordinarily quiescent, non-migratory, solid-like, and jammed. However, in a variety of circumstances the layer transitions to a phase that is dynamic, migratory, fluid-like and unjammed. This has been demonstrated in the developing embryo, the developing avian airway, the epithelial layer reconstituted in vitro from asthmatic donors, wounding, and exposure to mechanical stress. Here we examine the extent to which ionizing radiation might similarly provoke epithelial layer unjamming. We exposed primary human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells maintained in air-liquid interface (ALI) to sub-therapeutic doses (1 Gy) of ionizing radiation (IR). We first assessed: (1) DNA damage by measuring p-H2AX, (2) the integrity of the epithelial layer by measuring transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER), and (3) the extent of epithelial cell differentiation by detecting markers of differentiated airway epithelial cells. As expected, IR exposure induced DNA damage but, surprisingly, disrupted neither normal differentiation nor the integrity of the epithelial cell layer. We then measured cell shape and cellular migration to determine the extent of the unjamming transition (UJT). IR caused cell shape elongation and increased cellular motility, both of which are hallmarks of the UJT as previously confirmed. To understand the mechanism of IR-induced UJT, we inhibited TGF-β receptor activity, and found that migratory responses were attenuated. Together, these observations show that IR can provoke epithelial layer unjamming in a TGF-β receptor-dependent manner.
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- Michael J O'Sullivan
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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Vishwakarma M, Di Russo J. Why does epithelia display heterogeneity? Bridging physical and biological concepts. Biophys Rev 2019; 11:683-687. [PMID: 31494837 PMCID: PMC6815311 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-019-00583-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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- Medhavi Vishwakarma
- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University Walk, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS1 8TD, UK.
- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstrasse 29, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstrasse 29, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelstrasse 30, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
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Jamming state transition has been used in literature to describe migrating-to-resting cell state transition during collective cell migration without proper rheological confirmation. Yield stress often has been used as an indicator of a jamming state. Yield stress points to the liquid-to-solid state transition, but not a priori to jamming state transition. Various solid states such as elastic solid and viscoelastic solids can be considered in the context of their ability to relax. The relaxation time for (1) an elastic solid tends to zero, (2) Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic solid is finite, and (3) jamming state tends to infinity. In order to clarify the meaning of jamming state from the rheological standpoint we formulated the constitutive model of this state based on following conditions (1) migration of the system constituents is much damped such that the diffusion coefficient tends to zero, (2) relaxation time tends to infinity, (3) storage and loss moduli satisfy the condition G′(ω)/G"(ω) = const > 1. Jamming state represents the non-linear viscoelastic solid state. The main characteristic of this state is that the system cannot relax. Jamming state transition of multicellular systems caused by collective cell migration is discussed on a model system such as cell aggregate rounding after uni-axial compression between parallel plates based on the data from the literature. Cell aggregate rounding occurs via successive relaxation cycles. Every cycle corresponds to a different scenario of cell migration. Three scenarios were established depending on the magnitude of mechanical and biochemical perturbations (1) ordered scenario with reduced perturbations corresponds to the case that most of the cells migrate, (2) disordered scenario corresponds to the case that some cell groups migrate while the others (at the same time) stay in resting state (corresponds to medium perturbations), and (3) highly suppressed cell migration under large perturbations corresponds to the viscoelastic solid under jamming state. If cells reach the jamming state in one cycle, they are able to overcome this undesirable state and start migrating again in the next cycle by achieving the first or second scenarios again.
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Yu M, Mahtabfar A, Beelen P, Demiryurek Y, Shreiber DI, Zahn JD, Foty RA, Liu L, Lin H. Coherent Timescales and Mechanical Structure of Multicellular Aggregates. Biophys J 2019; 114:2703-2716. [PMID: 29874619 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Revised: 03/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Multicellular aggregates are an excellent model system to explore the role of tissue biomechanics in specifying multicellular reorganization during embryonic developments and malignant invasion. Tissue-like spheroids, when subjected to a compressive force, are known to exhibit liquid-like behaviors at long timescales (hours), largely because of cell rearrangements that serve to effectively dissipate the applied stress. At short timescales (seconds to minutes), before cell rearrangement, the mechanical behavior is strikingly different. The current work uses shape relaxation to investigate the structural characteristics of aggregates and discovers two coherent timescales: one on the order of seconds, the other tens of seconds. These timescales are universal, conserved across a variety of tested species, and persist despite great differences in other properties such as tissue surface tension and adhesion. A precise mathematical theory is used to correlate the timescales with mechanical properties and reveals that aggregates have a relatively strong envelope and an unusually "soft" interior (weak bulk elastic modulus). This characteristic is peculiar, considering that both layers consist of identical units (cells), but is consistent with the fact that this structure can engender both structural integrity and the flexibility required for remodeling. In addition, tissue surface tension, elastic modulus, and viscosity are proportional to each other. Considering that these tissue-level properties intrinsically derive from cellular-level properties, the proportionalities imply precise coregulation of the latter and in particular of the tension on the cell-medium and cell-cell interfaces.
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- Miao Yu
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey; Department of Mathematics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey.
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Spatarelu CP, Zhang H, Trung Nguyen D, Han X, Liu R, Guo Q, Notbohm J, Fan J, Liu L, Chen Z. Biomechanics of Collective Cell Migration in Cancer Progression: Experimental and Computational Methods. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2019; 5:3766-3787. [PMID: 32953985 PMCID: PMC7500334 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b01428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Cell migration is essential for regulating many biological processes in physiological or pathological conditions, including embryonic development and cancer invasion. In vitro and in silico studies suggest that collective cell migration is associated with some biomechanical particularities such as restructuring of extracellular matrix (ECM), stress and force distribution profiles, and reorganization of the cytoskeleton. Therefore, the phenomenon could be understood by an in-depth study of cells' behavior determinants, including but not limited to mechanical cues from the environment and from fellow "travelers". This review article aims to cover the recent development of experimental and computational methods for studying the biomechanics of collective cell migration during cancer progression and invasion. We also summarized the tested hypotheses regarding the mechanism underlying collective cell migration enabled by these methods. Together, the paper enables a broad overview on the methods and tools currently available to unravel the biophysical mechanisms pertinent to cell collective migration as well as providing perspectives on future development toward eventually deciphering the key mechanisms behind the most lethal feature of cancer.
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- Department of Engineering and Computer Science, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington 98119,
United States
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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- College of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400032, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350014,
China
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- Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706,
United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, City College of City University of New York, New York 10031, United
States
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- College of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400032, China
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, United States
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Pierzchalska M, Panek M, Grabacka M. The migration and fusion events related to ROCK activity strongly influence the morphology of chicken embryo intestinal organoids. PROTOPLASMA 2019; 256:575-581. [PMID: 30327884 PMCID: PMC6514079 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-018-1312-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 09/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The method of organoid culture has become a tool widely used in gastrointestinal research, but so far, the migration of organoids derived from gut epithelium and formed in 3D Matrigel matrix has not been reported and studied. The intestinal epithelial tissue derived from 19-day-old chicken embryo was cultured in Matrigel and the dynamic properties of the forming organoids were analyzed by time-lapse image analysis. It was observed that about one in ten organoids actively moved through the matrix, at a speed of 10-20 μm/h. Moreover, rotation was observed in the majority of organoids that did not migrate long distances. The fusion events took place between organoids, which collided during the movement or growth. In our previous paper, we showed that the presence of Toll-like receptor 4 ligand, Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 1 μg/ml), increased the mean organoid diameter. Here, we confirm this result and demonstrate that the Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitor Y-27632 (10 μM) did not completely abolish organoid migration, but prevented the fusion events, in both LPS-treated and untreated cultures. In consequence, in the presence of Y-27632, the differences between cultures incubated with and without LPS were not visible. We conclude that migration and fusion of organoids may influence their morphology and suggest that these phenomena should be taken into account during the design of experimental settings.
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- Małgorzata Pierzchalska
- Department of Food Biotechnology, Faculty of Food Technology, The University of Agriculture in Kraków, Balicka 122, 30-149, Kraków, Poland.
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- Department of Food Biotechnology, Faculty of Food Technology, The University of Agriculture in Kraków, Balicka 122, 30-149, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Food Biotechnology, Faculty of Food Technology, The University of Agriculture in Kraków, Balicka 122, 30-149, Kraków, Poland
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Brookes NH. Riding the cell jamming boundary: Geometry, topology, and phase of human corneal endothelium. Exp Eye Res 2018; 172:171-180. [PMID: 29656016 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2018.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Revised: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 04/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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It is important to assess the viability of eye-banked corneas prior to transplantation due to inherent senescence and known loss of endothelial cells during surgical manipulation. Corneal endothelial cells have a complex basal and paracellular shape making them challenging to accurately measure, particularly in oedematous ex vivo tissue. This study used calibrated centroidal Voronoi Diagrams to segment cells in images of these human corneas, in order to characterize endothelial geometry, topology, and phase. Hexagonal cells dominated the endothelia, with most comprised of five different pleomorphs exhibiting self-similar topological coarsening through most of the endothelial cell density range. There was a linear relationship between cell size and shape, though cells with greater than six sides were present in larger proportions than cells with less. Hexagonal cell regularity was stable and largely independent of density. Cell and tissue phase was also examined, using the cell shape index relative to the recently discovered 'cell jamming' phase transition boundary. Images showed fluid endothelia with a range of shape indices spanning the boundary, independent of density but dependent on hexagonal regularity. The cells showed a bimodal distribution centred at the boundary, with the largest proportion of cells on the fluid side. A shoulder at the boundary suggested phase switching via shape transformation across the energy barrier, with cells either side having distinctly different size and shape characteristics. Regular hexagonal cells were closest to the boundary. This study showed the corneal endothelium acts as a glassy viscous foam characterized by well-established physical laws. Endothelial cell death transiently and locally increases cell fluidity, which is subsequently arrested by jamming of the pleomorphically diverse cell collective, via rearrangement and shape change of a small proportion of cells, which become locked in place by their neighbours thereby maintaining structural equilibrium with little energy expenditure.
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- Nigel H Brookes
- New Zealand National Eye Bank and Department of Ophthalmology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Mulligan JA, Bordeleau F, Reinhart-King CA, Adie SG. Traction Force Microscopy for Noninvasive Imaging of Cell Forces. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2018; 1092:319-349. [PMID: 30368759 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95294-9_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The forces exerted by cells on their surroundings play an integral role in both physiological processes and disease progression. Traction force microscopy is a noninvasive technique that enables the in vitro imaging and quantification of cell forces. Utilizing expertise from a variety of disciplines, recent developments in traction force microscopy are enhancing the study of cell forces in physiologically relevant model systems, and hold promise for further advancing knowledge in mechanobiology. In this chapter, we discuss the methods, capabilities, and limitations of modern approaches for traction force microscopy, and highlight ongoing efforts and challenges underlying future innovations.
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- Jeffrey A Mulligan
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec, Université Laval, Québec, Qc, Canada
- Départment of Biologie Moléculaire, Biochimie Médicale et Pathologie, Université Laval, Québec, Qc, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Lou Y, Xia J, Tang W, Chen Y. Linking biological and physical aging: Dynamical scaling of multicellular regeneration. Phys Rev E 2017; 96:062418. [PMID: 29347394 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.062418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
The fight against biological aging (bio-aging) is long-standing, with the focus of intense research aimed at maintaining high rates of tissue regeneration to promote health and longevity. Nevertheless, there are overwhelming complexities associated with the quantitative analysis of aging. In this study, we sought to quantify bio-aging based on physical aging, by mapping instances of multicellular regeneration to the relaxation of physical systems. An experiment of delayed wound healing assays was devised to obtain delay-dependent healing data. The experiment confirmed the slowdown of healing events, which fitted dynamical scaling just as relaxation events do in physical aging. The scaling exponent, which describes the aging rate in physics, is here similarly proposed as an indicator of the deterioration rate of tissue-regenerative power. Parallel equation-based and cell-based simulations also revealed that asymmetric cell cycle-regulatory mechanisms under strong growth-inhibitory conditions predominantly control the critical slowdown of healing analogous to physical criticality. By establishing a direct link between physical aging and biological aging, we are able to estimate the aging rate of tissues and to achieve an integrated understanding of bio-aging mechanism which may improve the modulation of regeneration for clinical use.
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- Yuting Lou
- SCS Lab, Department of Human and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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- Hepato-Biliary-Pancreas Lab, Division of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Hepato-Biliary-Pancreas Lab, Division of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- SCS Lab, Department of Human and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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Pajic-Lijakovic I, Milivojevic M. Successive relaxation cycles during long-time cell aggregate rounding after uni-axial compression. J Biol Phys 2017; 43:197-209. [PMID: 28337554 PMCID: PMC5471168 DOI: 10.1007/s10867-017-9446-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The mean features of cell surface rearrangement during cell aggregate rounding after uni-axial compression between parallel plates are considered. This is based on long-time rheological modeling approaches in order to shed further light on collective cell migration. Many aspects of cell migration at the supra-cellular level, such as the coordination between surrounding migrating cell groups that leads to uncorrelated motility, have remained unclear. Aggregate shape changes during rounding are considered depending on the size and homogeneity of 2-D and 3-D cell aggregates. Cell aggregate shape changes that are taking place during successive relaxation cycles have various relaxation rates per cycle. Every relaxation rate is related to the corresponding cell migrating state. If most of the cells migrate per cycle, the relaxation rate is maximal. If most of the cells are in a resting state per cycle, the relaxation rate is nearing zero. If some cell groups migrate while the others, at the same time, stay in a resting state, the relaxation rate is lower than that obtained for the migrating cells. The relaxation rates per cycles are not random, but they have a tendency to gather around two or three values indicating an organized cell migrating pattern. Such behavior suggests that uncorrelated motility during collective cell migration in one cycle induces a decrease of the relaxation rate in the next cycle caused by an accumulation of cells in the resting state. However, cells have the ability to overcome these perturbations and re-establish an ordered migrating trend in the next cycle. These perturbations of the cell migrating state are more pronounced for: (1) more mobile cells, (2) a heterogeneous cell population, and (3) a larger cell population under the same experimental conditions.
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Pajic-Lijakovic I, Milivojevic M, Levic S, Trifkovic K, Stevanovic-Dajic Z, Radosevic R, Nedovic V, Bugarski B. Matrix resistance stress: A key parameter for immobilized cell growth regulation. Process Biochem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2016.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cell migration results from stepwise mechanical and chemical interactions between cells and their extracellular environment. Mechanistic principles that determine single-cell and collective migration modes and their interconversions depend upon the polarization, adhesion, deformability, contractility, and proteolytic ability of cells. Cellular determinants of cell migration respond to extracellular cues, including tissue composition, topography, alignment, and tissue-associated growth factors and cytokines. Both cellular determinants and tissue determinants are interdependent; undergo reciprocal adjustment; and jointly impact cell decision making, navigation, and migration outcome in complex environments. We here review the variability, decision making, and adaptation of cell migration approached by live-cell, in vivo, and in silico strategies, with a focus on cell movements in morphogenesis, repair, immune surveillance, and cancer metastasis.
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- Veronika Te Boekhorst
- David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030;
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030; .,Department of Cell Biology, Radboud University Medical Centre, 6525GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands; .,Cancer Genomics Center, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Weigelin B, Friedl P. Cancer cells: Stemness shaped by curvature. NATURE MATERIALS 2016; 15:827-828. [PMID: 27443907 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- Bettina Weigelin
- David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA and in the Department of Cell Biology, Radboud University Medical Centre, 6525GA Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA and in the Department of Cell Biology, Radboud University Medical Centre, 6525GA Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Cancer Genomics Center, 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands
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