Ray, A;
Lee, O;
Win, Z;
Edwards, RM;
Alford, PW;
Kim, D-H;
Provenzano, PP;
(2017)
Anisotropic forces from spatially constrained focal adhesions mediate contact guidance directed cell migration.
Nature Communications
, 8
, Article 14923. 10.1038/ncomms14923.
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Abstract
Directed migration by contact guidance is a poorly understood yet vital phenomenon, particularly for carcinoma cell invasion on aligned collagen fibres. We demonstrate that for single cells, aligned architectures providing contact guidance cues induce constrained focal adhesion maturation and associated F-actin alignment, consequently orchestrating anisotropic traction stresses that drive cell orientation and directional migration. Consistent with this understanding, relaxing spatial constraints to adhesion maturation either through reduction in substrate alignment density or reduction in adhesion size diminishes the contact guidance response. While such interactions allow single mesenchymal-like cells to spontaneously ‘sense’ and follow topographic alignment, intercellular interactions within epithelial clusters temper anisotropic cell–substratum forces, resulting in substantially lower directional response. Overall, these results point to the control of contact guidance by a balance of cell–substratum and cell–cell interactions, modulated by cell phenotype-specific cytoskeletal arrangements. Thus, our findings elucidate how phenotypically diverse cells perceive ECM alignment at the molecular level.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Anisotropic forces from spatially constrained focal adhesions mediate contact guidance directed cell migration |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms14923 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14923 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Actin, Cell migration, Focal adhesion |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Lab for Molecular Cell Bio MRC-UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039615 |




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