Fueling Cell Invasion through Extracellular Matrix

Autor: David R. Sherwood, Aastha Garde
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Trends Cell Biol
ISSN: 0962-8924
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2021.01.006
Popis: Cell invasion through extracellular matrix (ECM) plays pivotal roles in cell dispersal during development, immune cell trafficking, and cancer metastasis. Many elegant studies have revealed the specialized cellular protrusions, proteases, and distinct modes of migration invasive cells use to overcome ECM barriers. Less clear, however, is how invasive cells provide energy, and specifically ATP, to power the energetically demanding membrane trafficking, F-actin polymerization, and actomyosin machinery that mediate break down, remodeling, and movement through ECMs. Here, we provide an overview of the challenges of examining ATP generation and delivery within invading cells and how recent studies using diverse invasion models, experimental approaches, and energy biosensors are revealing that energy metabolism is an integral component of cell invasive behavior that is dynamically tuned to overcome the ECM environment.
Databáze: OpenAIRE