2022
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01826-2
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Mechanical stress driven by rigidity sensing governs epithelial stability

Abstract: Epithelia act as a barrier against environmental stress and abrasion and in vivo they are continuously exposed to environments of various mechanical properties. The impact of this environment on epithelial integrity remains elusive. By culturing epithelial cells on 2D hydrogels, we observe a loss of epithelial monolayer integrity through spontaneous hole formation when grown on soft substrates. Substrate stiffness triggers an unanticipated mechanical switch of epithelial monolayers from … Show more

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“…3f) that is reminiscent of negative wake reported in driven yield-strain materials [49]. A similar negative wake flow pattern is visible in experiments on Madin-Darby Canine Kidney cell monolayers [33,50] (see SM [25], Sec. VIII).…”
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“…3f) that is reminiscent of negative wake reported in driven yield-strain materials [49]. A similar negative wake flow pattern is visible in experiments on Madin-Darby Canine Kidney cell monolayers [33,50] (see SM [25], Sec. VIII).…”
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“…There are different ways to translate the cellular bulk stresses σ (act) into the vertex forces F (act) i [33][34][35][36]. Here we use the approach proposed by Tlili et al [33,34,36], which relies on Cauchy's stress definition. For the cell shape anisotropy tensor Q J in Eq.…”
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“…Besides the apical constriction mechanism, we use traction force microscopy (TFM) to analyze the contribution of in-plane traction-mediated migration of mesothelial cells during fracture 22,33 . First, we find that the spheroid's leader cell tends to contract the PDMS substrate in the absence of mesothelium (Fig.…”
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“…In addition to the characteristic flow fields, our closed form analytic descriptions provide an insight into the isotropic stress patterns, i.e., half of the trace of the stress tensor, around full-integer topological defects. Such isotropic stresses have been shown to be a determining factor for the biological functionality of nematic defects, where concentration of compressive stress around +1/2 defects was shown to lead to cell death and extrusion 27 , while the tensile stresses around −1/2 defects has been shown to lead to spontaneous gap opening in epithelial cell layers 49 . Similarly, we find distinct isotropic stress patterns around positive and negative full-integer defects: while around a negative (−1) defect alternating regions of tension and compression appear in a 4-fold symmetric pattern (Fig.…”
Section: Active Flow Fields Around ±1 Topological Defectsmentioning
confidence: 99%