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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 118, Issue 3, Pages 565-577Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.12.013
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- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR--10--INBS--04--01]
- LABEX INFORM
- Region PACA
- Institute CENTURI
- Excellence Initiative of Aix-Marseille University A*MIDEX
- French YInvestissements d'Avenir'' program [A-M-AAP-ID-17-68-170301-11.33-VALIGNAT-HLS-SAT]
- Alveole
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Recruitment of leukocytes from blood vessels to inflamed zones is guided by biochemical and mechanical stimuli, with the mechanisms only partially deciphered. Here, we studied the guidance by the flow of primary human effector T lymphocytes crawling on substrates coated with ligands of integrins lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1) (alpha(L)beta(2)) and very late antigen 4 (VLA-4) (alpha(4)beta(1)). We reveal that cells segregate in two populations of opposite orientation for combined adhesion and show that decisions of orientation rely on a bistable mechanism between LFA-1-mediated upstream and VLA-4-mediated downstream phenotypes. At the molecular level, bistability results from a differential front-rear polarization of both integrin affinities, combined with an inhibiting cross talk of LFA-1 toward VLA-4. At the cellular level, direction is determined by the passive, flow-mediated orientation of the nonadherent cell parts, the rear uropod for upstream migration, and the front lamellipod for downstream migration. This chain of logical events provides a comprehensive mechanism of guiding, from stimuli to cell orientation.
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