Coordinating cell polarization and morphogenesis through mechanical feedback

Autor: Tau-Mu Yi, Otger Campàs, Samhita Banavar, Linda R. Petzold, Michael Trogdon, Brian Drawert
Přispěvatelé: Umulis, David
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Glaciology
Cell
Cell Membranes
Yeast and Fungal Models
Biochemistry
Physical Chemistry
Mathematical Sciences
Contractile Proteins
Models
Materials Physics
Cell Movement
Cell Wall
Cell polarity
Morphogenesis
Biology (General)
Polarization (electrochemistry)
Projection (set theory)
cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein
Physics
Pediatric
Feedback
Physiological

cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein
Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Mating projection
Ecology
Viscosity
Cell Polarity
Eukaryota
Biological Sciences
Biomechanical Phenomena
Chemistry
medicine.anatomical_structure
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Ice Caps
Experimental Organism Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Physical Sciences
Cellular Structures and Organelles
Research Article
Cell Physiology
Polarity (physics)
Bioinformatics
QH301-705.5
Physiological
1.1 Normal biological development and functioning
Materials Science
Bioengineering
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Research and Analysis Methods
Models
Biological

Feedback
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Saccharomyces
Cell Walls
Model Organisms
Underpinning research
Information and Computing Sciences
Genetics
medicine
Computer Simulation
Molecular Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics

Cell morphogenesis
Organisms
Fungi
Biology and Life Sciences
Proteins
Computational Biology
Cell Biology
Biological
Actins
Yeast
Cytoskeletal Proteins
Chemical Properties
Biophysics
Earth Sciences
Animal Studies
Congenital Structural Anomalies
Generic health relevance
Developmental Biology
Zdroj: PLoS Computational Biology, Vol 17, Iss 1, p e1007971 (2021)
PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS computational biology, vol 17, iss 1
ISSN: 1553-7358
Popis: Many cellular processes require cell polarization to be maintained as the cell changes shape, grows or moves. Without feedback mechanisms relaying information about cell shape to the polarity molecular machinery, the coordination between cell polarization and morphogenesis, movement or growth would not be possible. Here we theoretically and computationally study the role of a genetically-encoded mechanical feedback (in the Cell Wall Integrity pathway) as a potential coordination mechanism between cell morphogenesis and polarity during budding yeast mating projection growth. We developed a coarse-grained continuum description of the coupled dynamics of cell polarization and morphogenesis as well as 3D stochastic simulations of the molecular polarization machinery in the evolving cell shape. Both theoretical approaches show that in the absence of mechanical feedback (or in the presence of weak feedback), cell polarity cannot be maintained at the projection tip during growth, with the polarization cap wandering off the projection tip, arresting morphogenesis. In contrast, for mechanical feedback strengths above a threshold, cells can robustly maintain cell polarization at the tip and simultaneously sustain mating projection growth. These results indicate that the mechanical feedback encoded in the Cell Wall Integrity pathway can provide important positional information to the molecular machinery in the cell, thereby enabling the coordination of cell polarization and morphogenesis.
Author summary Cell migration, morphogenesis and secretion are among the vast number of cellular processes that require cells to define a preferred spatial direction to perform essential tasks. This is achieved by setting an intracellular molecular gradient that polarizes the cell. While the molecular players involved in cell polarization and some of the mechanisms that cells use to establish such molecular gradients are known, it remains unclear how cells maintain polarization as they dramatically change shape during morphogenesis, migration, etc. Here we identify a potential feedback control mechanism, encoded genetically in cells, that provides the molecular polarization machinery with the necessary information about cell geometry to maintain cell polarization during cell shape changes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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