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Castellini S, Brizioli M, Giraudet C, Carpineti M, Croccolo F, Giavazzi F, Vailati A. Modeling and correction of image drift in dynamic shadowgraphy experiments. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2024; 47:25. [PMID: 38587607 DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00413-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
Abstract
The study of phoretic transport phenomena under non-stationary conditions presents several challenges, mostly related to the stability of the experimental apparatus. This is particularly true when investigating with optical means the subtle temperature and concentration fluctuations that arise during diffusion processes, superimposed to the macroscopic state of the system. Under these conditions, the tenuous signal from fluctuations is easily altered by the presence of artifacts. Here, we address an experimental issue frequently reported in the investigation by means of dynamic shadowgraphy of the non-equilibrium fluctuations arising in liquid mixtures under non-stationary conditions, such as those arising after the imposition or removal of a thermal stress, where experiments show systematically the presence of a spurious contribution in the reconstructed structure function of the fluctuations, which depends quadratically from the time delay. We clarify the mechanisms responsible for this artifact, showing that it is caused by the imperfect alignment of the sample cell with respect to gravity, which couples the temporal evolution of the concentration profile within the sample with the optical signal collected by the shadowgraph diagnostics. We propose a data analysis protocol that enables disentangling the spurious contributions and the genuine dynamics of the fluctuations, which can be thus reliably reconstructed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stefano Castellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica"A. Pontremoli", Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Segrate, Italy
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- LFCR UMR5150, E2S UPPA, CNRS, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Anglet, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica"A. Pontremoli", Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- LFCR UMR5150, E2S UPPA, CNRS, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Anglet, France
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Segrate, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Fisica"A. Pontremoli", Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Frittoli E, Palamidessi A, Iannelli F, Zanardi F, Villa S, Barzaghi L, Abdo H, Cancila V, Beznoussenko GV, Della Chiara G, Pagani M, Malinverno C, Bhattacharya D, Pisati F, Yu W, Galimberti V, Bonizzi G, Martini E, Mironov AA, Gioia U, Ascione F, Li Q, Havas K, Magni S, Lavagnino Z, Pennacchio FA, Maiuri P, Caponi S, Mattarelli M, Martino S, d'Adda di Fagagna F, Rossi C, Lucioni M, Tancredi R, Pedrazzoli P, Vecchione A, Petrini C, Ferrari F, Lanzuolo C, Bertalot G, Nader G, Foiani M, Piel M, Cerbino R, Giavazzi F, Tripodo C, Scita G. Tissue fluidification promotes a cGAS-STING cytosolic DNA response in invasive breast cancer. NATURE MATERIALS 2023; 22:644-655. [PMID: 36581770 PMCID: PMC10156599 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01431-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
Abstract
The process in which locally confined epithelial malignancies progressively evolve into invasive cancers is often promoted by unjamming, a phase transition from a solid-like to a liquid-like state, which occurs in various tissues. Whether this tissue-level mechanical transition impacts phenotypes during carcinoma progression remains unclear. Here we report that the large fluctuations in cell density that accompany unjamming result in repeated mechanical deformations of cells and nuclei. This triggers a cellular mechano-protective mechanism involving an increase in nuclear size and rigidity, heterochromatin redistribution and remodelling of the perinuclear actin architecture into actin rings. The chronic strains and stresses associated with unjamming together with the reduction of Lamin B1 levels eventually result in DNA damage and nuclear envelope ruptures, with the release of cytosolic DNA that activates a cGAS-STING (cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-signalling adaptor stimulator of interferon genes)-dependent cytosolic DNA response gene program. This mechanically driven transcriptional rewiring ultimately alters the cell state, with the emergence of malignant traits, including epithelial-to-mesenchymal plasticity phenotypes and chemoresistance in invasive breast carcinoma.
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Segrate, Italy
- Max Plank Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, Human Pathology Section, University of Palermo School of Medicine, Palermo, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Segrate, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore, & Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Istituto Officina dei Materiali, National Research Council (IOM-CNR), Unit of Perugia, c/o Department of Physics and Geology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, Biochemical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council, Pavia, Italy
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- Unit of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Unit of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
- S.C. Oncologia Medica, ASST Melegnano e della Martesana, Ospedale Uboldo, Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Roma, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council, Pavia, Italy
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- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Milan, Italy
- National Institute of Molecular Genetics Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi, INGM, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, S. Chiara Hospital, Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari, Trento, Italy
- CISMed University of Trento, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Institut Curie and Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR-144, Paris, France
- Cell Pathology Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Research Institute Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
- Department of Oncology and Haemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Institut Curie and Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR-144, Paris, France
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Segrate, Italy
- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Segrate, Italy.
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy.
- Department of Health Sciences, Human Pathology Section, University of Palermo School of Medicine, Palermo, Italy.
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy.
- Department of Oncology and Haemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
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Dey S, Mutneja A, Karmakar S. Enhanced short time peak in four-point dynamic susceptibility in dense active glass-forming liquids. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:7309-7316. [PMID: 36111612 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00727d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Active glassy systems are simple model systems that imitate complex biological processes. Sometimes, it becomes crucial to estimate the amount of activity present in such biological systems, such as predicting the progression rate of the cancer cells or the healing time of the wound, etc. In this work, we study a model active glassy system to quantify the degree of activity from the collective, long-wavelength fluctuations in the system. These long-wavelength fluctuations present themselves as an additional peak in the four-point dynamic susceptibility (χ4(t)) apart from the usual peak at structural relaxation time. We then show how the degree of the activity at such a small timescale can be obtained by measuring the variation in χ4(t) due to changing activity. A Detailed finite size analysis of the peak height of χ4(t) suggests the existence of an intrinsic dynamic length scale that grows with increasing activity. Finally, we show that this peak height is a unique function of effective activity across all system sizes, serving as a possible parameter for characterizing the degree of activity in a system.
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- Subhodeep Dey
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 36/P, Gopanpally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500046, Telangana, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 36/P, Gopanpally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500046, Telangana, India.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 36/P, Gopanpally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, 500046, Telangana, India.
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Villa S, Palamidessi A, Frittoli E, Scita G, Cerbino R, Giavazzi F. Non-invasive measurement of nuclear relative stiffness from quantitative analysis of microscopy data. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2022; 45:50. [PMID: 35604494 PMCID: PMC9165292 DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-022-00189-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The connection between the properties of a cell tissue and those of the single constituent cells remains to be elucidated. At the purely mechanical level, the degree of rigidity of different cellular components, such as the nucleus and the cytoplasm, modulates the interplay between the cell inner processes and the external environment, while simultaneously mediating the mechanical interactions between neighboring cells. Being able to quantify the correlation between single-cell and tissue properties would improve our mechanobiological understanding of cell tissues. Here we develop a methodology to quantitatively extract a set of structural and motility parameters from the analysis of time-lapse movies of nuclei belonging to jammed and flocking cell monolayers. We then study in detail the correlation between the dynamical state of the tissue and the deformation of the nuclei. We observe that the nuclear deformation rate linearly correlates with the local divergence of the velocity field, which leads to a non-invasive estimate of the elastic modulus of the nucleus relative to the one of the cytoplasm. We also find that nuclei belonging to flocking monolayers, subjected to larger mechanical perturbations, are about two time stiffer than nuclei belonging to dynamically arrested monolayers, in agreement with atomic force microscopy results. Our results demonstrate a non-invasive route to the determination of nuclear relative stiffness for cells in a monolayer.
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- Stefano Villa
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, 20090 Segrate, Italy
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- IFOM-FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, 20139 Milan, Italy
- Dipartimento di Oncologia e Emato-Oncologia, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, 20090 Segrate, Italy
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Edera P, Brizioli M, Zanchetta G, Petekidis G, Giavazzi F, Cerbino R. Deformation profiles and microscopic dynamics of complex fluids during oscillatory shear experiments. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:8553-8566. [PMID: 34515281 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01068a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Oscillatory shear tests are widely used in rheology to characterize the linear and non-linear mechanical response of complex fluids, including the yielding transition. There is an increasing urge to acquire detailed knowledge of the deformation field that is effectively present across the sample during these tests; at the same time, there is mounting evidence that the macroscopic rheological response depends on the elusive microscopic behavior of the material constituents. Here we employ a strain-controlled shear-cell with transparent walls to visualize and quantify the dynamics of tracers embedded in various cyclically sheared complex fluids, ranging from almost-ideal elastic to yield stress fluids. For each sample, we use image correlation processing to measure the macroscopic deformation field, and echo-differential dynamic microscopy to probe the microscopic irreversible sample dynamics in reciprocal space; finally, we devise a simple scheme to spatially map the rearrangements in the sheared sample, once again without tracking the tracers. For the yield stress sample, we obtain a wave-vector dependent characterization of shear-induced diffusion across the yielding transition, which is accompanied by a three-order-of-magnitude speed-up of the dynamics and by a transition from localized, intermittent rearrangements to a more spatially homogeneous and temporally uniform activity. Our tracking free approach is intrinsically multi-scale, can successfully discriminate between different types of dynamics, and can be automated to minimize user intervention. Applications are many, as it can be translated to other imaging modes, including fluorescence, and can be used with sub-resolution tracers and even without tracers, for samples that provide intrinsic optical contrast.
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- Paolo Edera
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, via F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, via F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, via F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Italy.
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- FORTH/IESL and Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, 71110 Heraklion, Greece
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, via F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, via F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Italy.
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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