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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09548-5
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- Midi-Pyrenees Regional Council [13053025]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (FRM) [AJE201224]
- Toulouse Cancer Sante (DynaMeca)
- CNRS
- Universite Paul Sabatier
- Medical Research Council [M010465, J000655]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [M008517]
- FRM [ARF20150934153]
- Marie Curie Prestiges Program [PRESTIGES 2015-4-007]
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When migrating in vivo, cells are exposed to numerous conflicting signals: chemokines, repellents, extracellular matrix, growth factors. The roles of several of these molecules have been studied individually in vitro or in vivo, but we have yet to understand how cells integrate them. To start addressing this question, we used the cephalic neural crest as a model system and looked at the roles of its best examples of positive and negative signals: stromal-cell derived factor 1 (Sdf1/Cxcl12) and class3-Semaphorins. Here we show that Sdf1 and Sema3A antagonistically control cell-matrix adhesion via opposite effects on Rac1 activity at the single cell level. Directional migration at the population level emerges as a result of global Semaphorin-dependent confinement and broad activation of adhesion by Sdf1 in the context of a biased Fibronectin distribution. These results indicate that uneven in vivo topology renders the need for precise distribution of secreted signals mostly dispensable.
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