Transitions Between Cooperative and Crowding-Dominated Collective Motion in non-Jammed MDCK Monolayers

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Autori principali: Chisolm, Steven J., Guo, Emily, Subramaniam, Vignesh, Schulze, Kyle D., Angelini, Thomas E.
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Chisolm, Steven J.
Guo, Emily
Subramaniam, Vignesh
Schulze, Kyle D.
Angelini, Thomas E.
author_facet Chisolm, Steven J.
Guo, Emily
Subramaniam, Vignesh
Schulze, Kyle D.
Angelini, Thomas E.
contents Transitions between solid-like and fluid-like states in living tissues have been found in steps of embryonic development and in stages of disease progression. Our current understanding of these transitions has been guided by experimental and theoretical investigations focused on how motion becomes arrested with increased mechanical coupling between cells, typically as a function of packing density or cell cohesiveness. However, cells actively respond to externally applied forces by contracting after a time delay, so it is possible that at some packing densities or levels of cell cohesiveness, mechanical coupling stimulates cell motion instead of suppressing it. Here we report our findings that at low densities and within multiple ranges of cell cohesiveness, cell migration speeds increase with these measures of mechanical coupling. Our observations run counter to our intuition that cell motion will be suppressed by increasingly packing or sticking cells together and may provide new insight into biological processes involving motion in dense cell populations.
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spellingShingle Transitions Between Cooperative and Crowding-Dominated Collective Motion in non-Jammed MDCK Monolayers
Chisolm, Steven J.
Guo, Emily
Subramaniam, Vignesh
Schulze, Kyle D.
Angelini, Thomas E.
Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
Transitions between solid-like and fluid-like states in living tissues have been found in steps of embryonic development and in stages of disease progression. Our current understanding of these transitions has been guided by experimental and theoretical investigations focused on how motion becomes arrested with increased mechanical coupling between cells, typically as a function of packing density or cell cohesiveness. However, cells actively respond to externally applied forces by contracting after a time delay, so it is possible that at some packing densities or levels of cell cohesiveness, mechanical coupling stimulates cell motion instead of suppressing it. Here we report our findings that at low densities and within multiple ranges of cell cohesiveness, cell migration speeds increase with these measures of mechanical coupling. Our observations run counter to our intuition that cell motion will be suppressed by increasingly packing or sticking cells together and may provide new insight into biological processes involving motion in dense cell populations.
title Transitions Between Cooperative and Crowding-Dominated Collective Motion in non-Jammed MDCK Monolayers
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12515