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Windgasse L, Grashoff C. Multiplexed Molecular Tension Sensor Measurements Using PIE-FLIM. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2600:221-237. [PMID: 36587101 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2851-5_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Genetically encoded Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)-based tension sensors were developed to enable the quantification of piconewton (pN)-scale forces that act across distinct proteins in living cells and organisms. An important extension of this technology is the multiplexing of tension sensors to monitor several independent FRET probes in parallel. Here we describe how pulsed interleaved excitation (PIE)-fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) can be implemented to enable the analysis of two co-expressed tension sensor constructs. Our protocol covers all essential steps from biosensor expression and live cell PIE image acquisition to lifetime calculations.
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- Lukas Windgasse
- Department of Quantitative Cell Biology, Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Quantitative Cell Biology, Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
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Balcioglu HE, Harkes R, Danen EHJ, Schmidt T. Substrate rigidity modulates traction forces and stoichiometry of cell–matrix adhesions. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:085101. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0077004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In cell–matrix adhesions, integrin receptors and associated proteins provide a dynamic coupling of the extracellular matrix (ECM) to the cytoskeleton. This allows bidirectional transmission of forces between the ECM and the cytoskeleton, which tunes intracellular signaling cascades that control survival, proliferation, differentiation, and motility. The quantitative relationships between recruitment of distinct cell–matrix adhesion proteins and local cellular traction forces are not known. Here, we applied quantitative super-resolution microscopy to cell–matrix adhesions formed on fibronectin-stamped elastomeric pillars and developed an approach to relate the number of talin, vinculin, paxillin, and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) molecules to the local cellular traction force. We find that FAK recruitment does not show an association with traction-force application, whereas a ∼60 pN force increase is associated with the recruitment of one talin, two vinculin, and two paxillin molecules on a substrate with an effective stiffness of 47 kPa. On a substrate with a fourfold lower effective stiffness, the stoichiometry of talin:vinculin:paxillin changes to 2:12:6 for the same ∼60 pN traction force. The relative change in force-related vinculin recruitment indicates a stiffness-dependent switch in vinculin function in cell–matrix adhesions. Our results reveal a substrate-stiffness-dependent modulation of the relationship between cellular traction-force and the molecular stoichiometry of cell–matrix adhesions.
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- Hayri E. Balcioglu
- Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Life Processes, Kamerlingh Onnes-Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Physics of Life Processes, Kamerlingh Onnes-Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Fischer LS, Rangarajan S, Sadhanasatish T, Grashoff C. Molecular Force Measurement with Tension Sensors. Annu Rev Biophys 2021; 50:595-616. [PMID: 33710908 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-101920-064756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The ability of cells to generate mechanical forces, but also to sense, adapt to, and respond to mechanical signals, is crucial for many developmental, postnatal homeostatic, and pathophysiological processes. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying cellular mechanotransduction have remained elusive for many decades, as techniques to visualize and quantify molecular forces across individual proteins in cells were missing. The development of genetically encoded molecular tension sensors now allows the quantification of piconewton-scale forces that act upon distinct molecules in living cells and even whole organisms. In this review, we discuss the physical principles, advantages, and limitations of this increasingly popular method. By highlighting current examples from the literature, we demonstrate how molecular tension sensors can be utilized to obtain access to previously unappreciated biophysical parameters that define the propagation of mechanical forces on molecular scales. We discuss how the methodology can be further developed and provide a perspective on how the technique could be applied to uncover entirely novel aspects of mechanobiology in the future.
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- Lisa S Fischer
- Department of Quantitative Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Münster D-48149, Germany;
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- Department of Quantitative Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Münster D-48149, Germany;
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- Department of Quantitative Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Münster D-48149, Germany;
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- Department of Quantitative Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Münster D-48149, Germany;
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Fan C, Lee S, Yang Y, Oztekin B, Li Q, Mostafavi A. Effects of population co-location reduction on cross-county transmission risk of COVID-19 in the United States. APPLIED NETWORK SCIENCE 2021; 6:14. [PMID: 33623817 PMCID: PMC7891476 DOI: 10.1007/s41109-021-00361-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The objective of this study is to examine the transmission risk of COVID-19 based on cross-county population co-location data from Facebook. The rapid spread of COVID-19 in the United States has imposed a major threat to public health, the real economy, and human well-being. With the absence of effective vaccines, the preventive actions of social distancing, travel reduction and stay-at-home orders are recognized as essential non-pharmacologic approaches to control the infection and spatial spread of COVID-19. Prior studies demonstrated that human movement and mobility drove the spatiotemporal distribution of COVID-19 in China. Little is known, however, about the patterns and effects of co-location reduction on cross-county transmission risk of COVID-19. This study utilizes Facebook co-location data for all counties in the United States from March to early May 2020 for conducting spatial network analysis where nodes represent counties and edge weights are associated with the co-location probability of populations of the counties. The analysis examines the synchronicity and time lag between travel reduction and pandemic growth trajectory to evaluate the efficacy of social distancing in ceasing the population co-location probabilities, and subsequently the growth in weekly new cases across counties. The results show that the mitigation effects of co-location reduction appear in the growth of weekly new confirmed cases with one week of delay. The analysis categorizes counties based on the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and examines co-location patterns within and across groups. Significant segregation is found among different county groups. The results suggest that within-group co-location probabilities (e.g., co-location probabilities among counties with high numbers of cases) remain stable, and social distancing policies primarily resulted in reduced cross-group co-location probabilities (due to travel reduction from counties with large number of cases to counties with low numbers of cases). These findings could have important practical implications for local governments to inform their intervention measures for monitoring and reducing the spread of COVID-19, as well as for adoption in future pandemics. Public policy, economic forecasting, and epidemic modeling need to account for population co-location patterns in evaluating transmission risk of COVID-19 across counties.
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- Chao Fan
- Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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Cell-surface adhesion receptors mediate interactions with the extracellular matrix (ECM) to control many fundamental aspects of cell behavior, including cell migration, survival, and proliferation. Integrin adhesion receptors recruit structural and signaling proteins to form multimolecular adhesion complexes that link the plasma membrane to the actomyosin cytoskeleton. The assembly and turnover of adhesion complexes are tightly regulated, governed in part by the networks of physical protein interactions and functional signaling associations between components of the adhesome. Proteomic profiling of adhesion complexes has begun to reveal their molecular complexity and diversity. To interrogate the composition of cell-ECM adhesions, we detail herein an approach for the network analysis of adhesion complex proteomes. Integration of these proteomic data with adhesome databases in the context of predicted protein interactions enables the mapping of experimentally defined adhesion complex networks. Computational analysis of resultant network models can identify subnetworks of putative functionally linked adhesion protein communities. This approach provides a framework to predict functional adhesion protein relationships and generate new mechanistic hypotheses for further experimental testing.
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- Frederic Li Mow Chee
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Fibrocystin Is Essential to Cellular Control of Adhesion and Epithelial Morphogenesis. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21145140. [PMID: 32698519 PMCID: PMC7404311 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21145140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Mutations of the Pkhd1 gene cause autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD). Pkhd1 encodes fibrocystin/polyductin (FPC), a ciliary type I membrane protein of largely unknown function, suggested to affect adhesion signaling of cells. Contributions of epithelial cell adhesion and contractility to the disease process are elusive. Here, we link loss of FPC to defective epithelial morphogenesis in 3D cell culture and altered cell contact formation. We study Pkhd1-silenced Madin-Darby Canine Kidney II (MDCKII) cells using an epithelial morphogenesis assay based on micropatterned glass coverslips. The assay allows analysis of cell adhesion, polarity and lumen formation of epithelial spheroids. Pkhd1 silencing critically affects the initial phase of the morphogenesis assay, leading to a reduction of correctly polarized spheroids by two thirds. Defects are characterized by altered cell adhesion and centrosome positioning of FPC-deficient cells in their 1-/2-cell stages. When myosin II inhibitor is applied to reduce cellular tension during the critical early phase of the assay, Pkhd1 silencing no longer inhibits formation of correctly polarized epithelia. We propose that altered sensing and cell interaction of FPC-deficient epithelial cells promote progressive epithelial defects in ARPKD.
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Le S, Yu M, Yan J. Direct single-molecule quantification reveals unexpectedly high mechanical stability of vinculin-talin/α-catenin linkages. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2019; 5:eaav2720. [PMID: 31897422 PMCID: PMC6920023 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav2720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The vinculin-mediated mechanosensing requires establishment of stable mechanical linkages between vinculin to integrin at focal adhesions and to cadherins at adherens junctions through associations with the respective adaptor proteins talin and α-catenin. However, the mechanical stability of these critical vinculin linkages has yet to be determined. Here, we developed a single-molecule detector assay to provide direct quantification of the mechanical lifetime of vinculin association with the vinculin binding sites in both talin and α-catenin, which reveals a surprisingly high mechanical stability of the vinculin-talin and vinculin-α-catenin interfaces that have a lifetime of >1000 s at forces up to 10 pN and can last for seconds to tens of seconds at 15 to 25 pN. Our results suggest that these force-bearing intermolecular interfaces provide sufficient mechanical stability to support the vinculin-mediated mechanotransduction at cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesions.
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- Shimin Le
- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411, Singapore
- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411, Singapore
- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411, Singapore
- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
- Centre for Bioimaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Singapore
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Yu M, Le S, Ammon YC, Goult BT, Akhmanova A, Yan J. Force-Dependent Regulation of Talin-KANK1 Complex at Focal Adhesions. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:5982-5990. [PMID: 31389241 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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KANK proteins mediate cross-talk between dynamic microtubules and integrin-based adhesions to the extracellular matrix. KANKs interact with the integrin/actin-binding protein talin and with several components of microtubule-stabilizing cortical complexes. Because of actomyosin contractility, the talin-KANK complex is likely under mechanical force, and its mechanical stability is expected to be a critical determinant of KANK recruitment to focal adhesions. Here, we quantified the lifetime of the complex of the talin rod domain R7 and the KN domain of KANK1 under shear-force geometry and found that it can withstand forces for seconds to minutes over a physiological force range up to 10 pN. Complex stability measurements combined with cell biological experiments suggest that shear-force stretching promotes KANK1 localization to the periphery of focal adhesions. These results indicate that the talin-KANK1 complex is mechanically strong, enabling it to support the cross-talk between microtubule and actin cytoskeleton at focal adhesions.
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- Miao Yu
- Mechanobiology Institute , National University of Singapore , Singapore
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- Department of Physics , National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands
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- School of Biosciences , University of Kent , Canterbury , United Kingdom
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- Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands
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- Mechanobiology Institute , National University of Singapore , Singapore
- Department of Physics , National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Centre for Bioimaging Sciences , National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Izquierdo-Álvarez A, Vargas DA, Jorge-Peñas Á, Subramani R, Vaeyens MM, Van Oosterwyck H. Spatiotemporal Analyses of Cellular Tractions Describe Subcellular Effect of Substrate Stiffness and Coating. Ann Biomed Eng 2018; 47:624-637. [DOI: 10.1007/s10439-018-02164-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Lock JG, Jones MC, Askari JA, Gong X, Oddone A, Olofsson H, Göransson S, Lakadamyali M, Humphries MJ, Strömblad S. Reticular adhesions are a distinct class of cell-matrix adhesions that mediate attachment during mitosis. Nat Cell Biol 2018; 20:1290-1302. [PMID: 30361699 DOI: 10.1038/s41556-018-0220-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Adhesion to the extracellular matrix persists during mitosis in most cell types. However, while classical adhesion complexes, such as focal adhesions, do and must disassemble to enable mitotic rounding, the mechanisms of residual mitotic cell-extracellular matrix adhesion remain undefined. Here, we identify 'reticular adhesions', a class of adhesion complex that is mediated by integrin αvβ5, formed during interphase, and preserved at cell-extracellular matrix attachment sites throughout cell division. Consistent with this role, integrin β5 depletion perturbs mitosis and disrupts spatial memory transmission between cell generations. Reticular adhesions are morphologically and dynamically distinct from classical focal adhesions. Mass spectrometry defines their unique composition, enriched in phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P2)-binding proteins but lacking virtually all consensus adhesome components. Indeed, reticular adhesions are promoted by PtdIns(4,5)P2, and form independently of talin and F-actin. The distinct characteristics of reticular adhesions provide a solution to the problem of maintaining cell-extracellular matrix attachment during mitotic rounding and division.
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- John G Lock
- Department of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- ICFO, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- ICFO, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
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Live cell imaging reveals focal adhesions mechanoresponses in mammary epithelial cells under sustained equibiaxial stress. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9788. [PMID: 29955093 PMCID: PMC6023913 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27948-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Mechanical stimuli play a key role in many cell functions such as proliferation, differentiation and migration. In the mammary gland, mechanical signals such as the distension of mammary epithelial cells due to udder filling are proposed to be directly involved during lactation and involution. However, the evolution of focal adhesions -specialized multiprotein complexes that mechanically connect cells with the extracellular matrix- during the mammary gland development, as well as the influence of the mechanical stimuli involved, remains unclear. Here we present the use of an equibiaxial stretching device for exerting a sustained normal strain to mammary epithelial cells while quantitatively assessing cell responses by fluorescence imaging techniques. Using this approach, we explored changes in focal adhesion dynamics in HC11 mammary cells in response to a mechanical sustained stress, which resembles the physiological stimuli. We studied the relationship between a global stress and focal adhesion assembly/disassembly, observing an enhanced persistency of focal adhesions under strain as well as an increase in their size. At a molecular level, we evaluated the mechanoresponses of vinculin and zyxin, two focal adhesion proteins postulated as mechanosensors, observing an increment in vinculin molecular tension and a slower zyxin dynamics while increasing the applied normal strain.
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Cell adhesion to components of the cellular microenvironment via cell-surface adhesion receptors controls many aspects of cell behavior in a range of physiological and pathological processes. Multimolecular complexes of scaffolding and signaling proteins are recruited to the intracellular domains of adhesion receptors such as integrins, and these adhesion complexes tether the cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane and compartmentalize cellular signaling events. Integrin adhesion complexes are highly dynamic, and their assembly is tightly regulated. Comprehensive, unbiased, quantitative analyses of the composition of different adhesion complexes over the course of their formation will enable better understanding of how the dynamics of adhesion protein recruitment influence the functions of adhesion complexes in fundamental cellular processes. Here, a pipeline is detailed integrating biochemical isolation of integrin adhesion complexes during a time course, quantitative proteomic analysis of isolated adhesion complexes, and computational analysis of temporal proteomic data. This approach enables the characterization of adhesion complex composition and dynamics during complex assembly.
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- Adam Byron
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Gladkikh A, Kovaleva A, Tvorogova A, Vorobjev IA. Heterogeneity of Focal Adhesions and Focal Contacts in Motile Fibroblasts. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1745:205-218. [PMID: 29476471 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7680-5_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) adhesion is an important property of virtually all cells in multicellular organisms. Cell-ECM adhesion studies, therefore, are very significant both for biology and medicine. Over the last three decades, biomedical studies resulted in a tremendous advance in our understanding of the molecular basis and functions of cell-ECM adhesion. Based on morphological and molecular criteria, several different types of model cell-ECM adhesion structures including focal adhesions, focal complexes, fibrillar adhesions, podosomes, and three-dimensional matrix adhesions have been described. All the subcellular structures that mediate cell-ECM adhesion are quite heterogeneous, often varying in size, shape, distribution, dynamics, and, to a certain extent, molecular constituents. The morphological "plasticity" of cell-ECM adhesion perhaps reflects the needs of cells to sense, adapt, and respond to a variety of extracellular environments. In addition, cell type (e.g., differentiation status, oncogenic transformation, etc.) often exerts marked influence on the structure of cell-ECM adhesions. Although molecular, genetic, biochemical, and structural studies provide important maps or "snapshots" of cell-ECM adhesions, the area of research that is equally valuable is to study the heterogeneity of FA subpopulations within cells. Recently time-lapse observations on the FA dynamics become feasible, and behavior of individual FA gives additional information on cell-ECM interactions. Here we describe a robust method of labeling of FA using plasmids with fluorescent markers for paxillin and vinculin and quantifying the morphological and dynamical parameters of FA.
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- Aleena Gladkikh
- Department of Cell Biology and Histology, School of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Histology, School of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biology, School of Sciences and Technology, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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Strömblad S, Lock JG. Using Systems Microscopy to Understand the Emergence of Cell Migration from Cell Organization. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1749:119-134. [PMID: 29525994 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7701-7_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Cell migration is a dynamic process that emerges from fine-tuned networks coordinated in three-dimensional space, spanning molecular, subcellular, and cellular scales, and over multiple temporal scales, from milliseconds to days. Understanding how cell migration arises from this complexity requires data collection and analyses that quantitatively integrate these spatial and temporal scales. To meet this need, we have combined quantitative live and fixed cell fluorescence microscopy, customized image analysis tools, multivariate statistical methods, and mathematical modeling. Collectively, this constitutes the systems microscopy strategy that we have applied to dissect how cells organize themselves to migrate. In this overview, we highlight key principles, concepts, and components of our systems microscopy methodology, and exemplify what we have learnt so far and where this approach may lead.
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- Staffan Strömblad
- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
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- EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Medical Sciences, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Lausecker F, Tian X, Inoue K, Wang Z, Pedigo CE, Hassan H, Liu C, Zimmer M, Jinno S, Huckle AL, Hamidi H, Ross RS, Zent R, Ballestrem C, Lennon R, Ishibe S. Vinculin is required to maintain glomerular barrier integrity. Kidney Int 2017; 93:643-655. [PMID: 29241625 PMCID: PMC5846847 DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2017.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2017] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Cell-matrix interactions and podocyte intercellular junctions are key for maintaining the glomerular filtration barrier. Vinculin, a cytoplasmic protein, couples actin filaments to integrin-mediated cell-matrix adhesions and to cadherin-based intercellular junctions. Here, we examined the role of vinculin in podocytes by the generation of a podocyte-specific knockout mouse. Mice lacking podocyte vinculin had increased albuminuria and foot process effacement following injury in vivo. Analysis of primary podocytes isolated from the mutant mice revealed defects in cell protrusions, altered focal adhesion size and signaling, as well as impaired cell migration. Furthermore, we found a marked mislocalization of the intercellular junction protein zonula occludens-1. In kidney sections from patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, minimal change disease and membranous nephropathy, we observed dramatic differences in the expression levels and localization of vinculin. Thus, our results suggest that vinculin is necessary to maintain the integrity of the glomerular filtration barrier by modulating podocyte foot processes and stabilizing intercellular junctions.
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- Franziska Lausecker
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Veterans Affairs Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; School of Biology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, UK.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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Multiplexing molecular tension sensors reveals piconewton force gradient across talin-1. Nat Methods 2017; 14:1090-1096. [DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 08/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Meng F, Saxena S, Liu Y, Joshi B, Wong TH, Shankar J, Foster LJ, Bernatchez P, Nabi IR. The phospho-caveolin-1 scaffolding domain dampens force fluctuations in focal adhesions and promotes cancer cell migration. Mol Biol Cell 2017; 28. [PMID: 28592633 PMCID: PMC5531735 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e17-05-0278,] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Caveolin-1 (Cav1), a major Src kinase substrate phosphorylated on tyrosine-14 (Y14), contains the highly conserved membrane-proximal caveolin scaffolding domain (CSD; amino acids 82-101). Here we show, using CSD mutants (F92A/V94A) and membrane-permeable CSD-competing peptides, that Src kinase-dependent pY14Cav1 regulation of focal adhesion protein stabilization, focal adhesion tension, and cancer cell migration is CSD dependent. Quantitative proteomic analysis of Cav1-GST (amino acids 1-101) pull downs showed sixfold-increased binding of vinculin and, to a lesser extent, α-actinin, talin, and filamin, to phosphomimetic Cav1Y14D relative to nonphosphorylatable Cav1Y14F. Consistently, pY14Cav1 enhanced CSD-dependent vinculin tension in focal adhesions, dampening force fluctuation and synchronously stabilizing cellular focal adhesions in a high-tension mode, paralleling effects of actin stabilization. This identifies pY14Cav1 as a molecular regulator of focal adhesion tension and suggests that functional interaction between Cav1 Y14 phosphorylation and the CSD promotes focal adhesion traction and, thereby, cancer cell motility.
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- Fanrui Meng
- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Michael Smith Labs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada,James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart + Lung Health, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada,*Address correspondence to: Ivan R. Nabi ()
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Meng F, Saxena S, Liu Y, Joshi B, Wong TH, Shankar J, Foster LJ, Bernatchez P, Nabi IR. The phospho-caveolin-1 scaffolding domain dampens force fluctuations in focal adhesions and promotes cancer cell migration. Mol Biol Cell 2017; 28:2190-2201. [PMID: 28592633 PMCID: PMC5531735 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e17-05-0278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2017] [Accepted: 06/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Caveolin-1 (Cav1), a major Src kinase substrate phosphorylated on tyrosine-14 (Y14), contains the highly conserved membrane-proximal caveolin scaffolding domain (CSD; amino acids 82-101). Here we show, using CSD mutants (F92A/V94A) and membrane-permeable CSD-competing peptides, that Src kinase-dependent pY14Cav1 regulation of focal adhesion protein stabilization, focal adhesion tension, and cancer cell migration is CSD dependent. Quantitative proteomic analysis of Cav1-GST (amino acids 1-101) pull downs showed sixfold-increased binding of vinculin and, to a lesser extent, α-actinin, talin, and filamin, to phosphomimetic Cav1Y14D relative to nonphosphorylatable Cav1Y14F. Consistently, pY14Cav1 enhanced CSD-dependent vinculin tension in focal adhesions, dampening force fluctuation and synchronously stabilizing cellular focal adhesions in a high-tension mode, paralleling effects of actin stabilization. This identifies pY14Cav1 as a molecular regulator of focal adhesion tension and suggests that functional interaction between Cav1 Y14 phosphorylation and the CSD promotes focal adhesion traction and, thereby, cancer cell motility.
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- Fanrui Meng
- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Michael Smith Labs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart + Lung Health, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6, Canada.,Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Sarangi BR, Gupta M, Doss BL, Tissot N, Lam F, Mège RM, Borghi N, Ladoux B. Coordination between Intra- and Extracellular Forces Regulates Focal Adhesion Dynamics. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:399-406. [PMID: 27990827 PMCID: PMC5423523 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Focal adhesions (FAs) are important mediators of cell-substrate interactions. One of their key functions is the transmission of forces between the intracellular acto-myosin network and the substrate. However, the relationships between cell traction forces, FA architecture, and molecular forces within FAs are poorly understood. Here, by combining Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based molecular force biosensors with micropillar-based traction force sensors and high-resolution fluorescence microscopy, we simultaneously map molecular tension across vinculin, a key protein in FAs, and traction forces at FAs. Our results reveal strong spatiotemporal correlations between vinculin tension and cell traction forces at FAs throughout a wide range of substrate stiffnesses. Furthermore, we find that molecular tension within individual FAs follows a biphasic distribution from the proximal (toward the cell nucleus) to distal end (toward the cell edge). Using super-resolution imaging, we show that such a distribution relates to that of FA proteins. On the basis of our experimental data, we propose a model in which FA dynamics results from tension changes along the FAs.
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- Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi
- Institut Jacques Monod (IJM), CNRS UMR 7592 & University Paris Diderot, Paris, France
- SRM Research Institute and Department of Physics & Nanotechnology, SRM University, Kattankulathur, India
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- Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Institut Jacques Monod (IJM), CNRS UMR 7592 & University Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod (IJM), CNRS UMR 7592 & University Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod (IJM), CNRS UMR 7592 & University Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod (IJM), CNRS UMR 7592 & University Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod (IJM), CNRS UMR 7592 & University Paris Diderot, Paris, France
- Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Corresponding Author
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Freikamp A, Cost AL, Grashoff C. The Piconewton Force Awakens: Quantifying Mechanics in Cells. Trends Cell Biol 2016; 26:838-847. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2016.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Byron A, Frame MC. Adhesion protein networks reveal functions proximal and distal to cell-matrix contacts. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2016; 39:93-100. [PMID: 26930633 PMCID: PMC5094910 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2016.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Revised: 02/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix is generally mediated by integrin receptors, which bind to intracellular adhesion proteins that form multi-molecular scaffolding and signalling complexes. The networks of proteins, and their interactions, are dynamic, mechanosensitive and extremely complex. Recent efforts to characterise adhesions using a variety of technologies, including imaging, proteomics and bioinformatics, have provided new insights into their composition, organisation and how they are regulated, and have also begun to reveal unexpected roles for so-called adhesion proteins in other cellular compartments (for example, the nucleus or centrosomes) in diseases such as cancer. We believe this is opening a new chapter on understanding the wider functions of adhesion proteins, both proximal and distal to cell-matrix contacts.
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- Adam Byron
- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Freikamp A, Mehlich A, Klingner C, Grashoff C. Investigating piconewton forces in cells by FRET-based molecular force microscopy. J Struct Biol 2016; 197:37-42. [PMID: 26980477 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2016.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2015] [Revised: 03/11/2016] [Accepted: 03/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The ability of cells to sense and respond to mechanical forces is crucial for a wide range of developmental and pathophysiological processes. The molecular mechanisms underlying cellular mechanotransduction, however, are largely unknown because suitable techniques to measure mechanical forces across individual molecules in cells have been missing. In this article, we highlight advances in the development of molecular force sensing techniques and discuss our recently expanded set of FRET-based tension sensors that allows the analysis of mechanical forces with piconewton sensitivity in cells. In addition, we provide a theoretical framework for the design of additional tension sensor modules with adjusted force sensitivity.
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- Andrea Freikamp
- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Group of Molecular Mechanotransduction, Martinsried D-82152, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, Physics Department E22, Garching D-85748, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Group of Molecular Mechanotransduction, Martinsried D-82152, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Group of Molecular Mechanotransduction, Martinsried D-82152, Germany.
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Brenner MD, Zhou R, Conway DE, Lanzano L, Gratton E, Schwartz MA, Ha T. Spider Silk Peptide Is a Compact, Linear Nanospring Ideal for Intracellular Tension Sensing. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:2096-102. [PMID: 26824190 PMCID: PMC4851340 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Recent development and applications of calibrated, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based tension sensors have led to a new understanding of single molecule mechanotransduction in a number of biological systems. To expand the range of accessible forces, we systematically measured FRET versus force trajectories for 25, 40, and 50 amino acid peptide repeats derived from spider silk. Single molecule fluorescence-force spectroscopy showed that the peptides behaved as linear springs instead of the nonlinear behavior expected for a disordered polymer. Our data are consistent with a compact, rodlike structure that measures 0.26 nm per 5 amino acid repeat that can stretch by 500% while maintaining linearity, suggesting that the remarkable elasticity of spider silk proteins may in part derive from the properties of individual chains. We found the shortest peptide to have the widest range of force sensitivity: between 2 pN and 11 pN. Live cell imaging of the three tension sensor constructs inserted into vinculin showed similar force values around 2.4 pN. We also provide a lookup table for force versus intracellular FRET for all three constructs.
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- Michael D. Brenner
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Physics and Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
- Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Departments of Internal Medicine (Section of Cardiovascular Medicine) and Cell Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Shafqat-Abbasi H, Kowalewski JM, Kiss A, Gong X, Hernandez-Varas P, Berge U, Jafari-Mamaghani M, Lock JG, Strömblad S. An analysis toolbox to explore mesenchymal migration heterogeneity reveals adaptive switching between distinct modes. eLife 2016; 5:e11384. [PMID: 26821527 PMCID: PMC4749554 DOI: 10.7554/elife.11384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Mesenchymal (lamellipodial) migration is heterogeneous, although whether this reflects progressive variability or discrete, 'switchable' migration modalities, remains unclear. We present an analytical toolbox, based on quantitative single-cell imaging data, to interrogate this heterogeneity. Integrating supervised behavioral classification with multivariate analyses of cell motion, membrane dynamics, cell-matrix adhesion status and F-actin organization, this toolbox here enables the detection and characterization of two quantitatively distinct mesenchymal migration modes, termed 'Continuous' and 'Discontinuous'. Quantitative mode comparisons reveal differences in cell motion, spatiotemporal coordination of membrane protrusion/retraction, and how cells within each mode reorganize with changed cell speed. These modes thus represent distinctive migratory strategies. Additional analyses illuminate the macromolecular- and cellular-scale effects of molecular targeting (fibronectin, talin, ROCK), including 'adaptive switching' between Continuous (favored at high adhesion/full contraction) and Discontinuous (low adhesion/inhibited contraction) modes. Overall, this analytical toolbox now facilitates the exploration of both spontaneous and adaptive heterogeneity in mesenchymal migration.
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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Goldmann WH. Role of vinculin in cellular mechanotransduction. Cell Biol Int 2016; 40:241-56. [DOI: 10.1002/cbin.10563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2015] [Accepted: 11/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Wolfgang H. Goldmann
- Department of Biophysics; Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Erlangen Germany
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Doyle AD, Yamada KM. Mechanosensing via cell-matrix adhesions in 3D microenvironments. Exp Cell Res 2015; 343:60-66. [PMID: 26524505 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2015.10.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/29/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The extracellular matrix (ECM) microenvironment plays a central role in cell migration by providing physiochemical information that influences overall cell behavior. Much of this external information is accessed by direct interaction of the cell with ECM ligands and structures via integrin-based adhesions that are hypothesized to act as mechanosensors for testing the surrounding microenvironment. Our current understanding of these mechanical complexes is derived primarily from studies of cellular adhesions formed on two-dimensional (2D) substrates in vitro. Yet the rules of cell/ECM engagement and mechanosensing in three-dimensional (3D) microenvironments are invariably more complex under both in vitro and in vivo conditions. Here we review the current understanding of how cellular mechanosensing occurs through adhesion complexes within 3D microenvironments and discuss how these mechanisms can vary and differ from interactions on 2D substrates.
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- Andrew D Doyle
- Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, Cell Biology Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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- Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, Cell Biology Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Kowalewski JM, Shafqat-Abbasi H, Jafari-Mamaghani M, Endrias Ganebo B, Gong X, Strömblad S, Lock JG. Disentangling Membrane Dynamics and Cell Migration; Differential Influences of F-actin and Cell-Matrix Adhesions. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135204. [PMID: 26248038 PMCID: PMC4527765 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2015] [Accepted: 07/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Cell migration is heavily interconnected with plasma membrane protrusion and retraction (collectively termed “membrane dynamics”). This makes it difficult to distinguish regulatory mechanisms that differentially influence migration and membrane dynamics. Yet such distinctions may be valuable given evidence that cancer cell invasion in 3D may be better predicted by 2D membrane dynamics than by 2D cell migration, implying a degree of functional independence between these processes. Here, we applied multi-scale single cell imaging and a systematic statistical approach to disentangle regulatory associations underlying either migration or membrane dynamics. This revealed preferential correlations between membrane dynamics and F-actin features, contrasting with an enrichment of links between cell migration and adhesion complex properties. These correlative linkages were often non-linear and therefore context-dependent, strengthening or weakening with spontaneous heterogeneity in cell behavior. More broadly, we observed that slow moving cells tend to increase in area, while fast moving cells tend to shrink, and that the size of dynamic membrane domains is independent of cell area. Overall, we define macromolecular features preferentially associated with either cell migration or membrane dynamics, enabling more specific interrogation and targeting of these processes in future.
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- Jacob M. Kowalewski
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden
- Division of Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden
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Cells generate and experience mechanical forces that may shape tissues and regulate signaling pathways in a variety of physiological or pathological situations. How forces propagate and transduce signals at the molecular level is poorly understood. The advent of FRET-based Molecular Tension Microscopy now allows to achieve mechanical force measurements at a molecular scale with molecular specificity in situ, and thereby better understand the mechanical architecture of cells and tissues, and mechanotransduction pathways. In this review, we will first expose the basic principles of FRET-based MTM and its various incarnations. We will describe different ways of measuring FRET, their advantages and drawbacks. Then, throughout the range of proteins of interest, cells and organisms to which it has been applied, we will review the tests developed to validate the approach, how molecular tension was related to cell functions, and conclude with possible developments and offshoots.
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- Charlène Gayrard
- Institut Jacques Monod, Unité Mixe de Recherche 7592, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris 75013, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, Unité Mixe de Recherche 7592, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris 75013, France.
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