Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 270, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.120662
Keywords
Nuclear envelope; Hydrogels; Lamina; YAP/TAZ; Mechanotransduction; Super resolution imaging
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [R01 AR077362, R01 AR056624, R01 AR071399]
- National Science Foundation [CMMI-1548571]
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The degree of nuclear envelope wrinkling can predict mechanotransduction state in mesenchymal progenitor cells and highlights the differential mechanisms of nuclear envelope stress generation operative in 2D and 3D microenvironmental contexts.
Exogenous mechanical cues are transmitted from the extracellular matrix to the nuclear envelope (NE), where mechanical stress on the NE mediates shuttling of transcription factors and other signaling cascades that dictate downstream cellular behavior and fate decisions. To systematically study how nuclear morphology can change across various physiologic microenvironmental contexts, we cultured mesenchymal progenitor cells (MSCs) in engineered 2D and 3D hyalumnic acid hydrogel systems. Across multiple contexts we observed highly 'wrinkled' nuclear envelopes, and subsequently developed a quantitative single-cell imaging metric to better evaluate how wrinkles in the nuclear envelope relate to progenitor cell mechanotransduction. We determined that in soft 2D environments the NE is predominately wrinkled, and that increases in cellular mechanosensing (indicated by cellular spreading, adhesion complex growth, and nuclear localization of YAP/TAZ) occurred only in absence of nuclear envelope wrinkling. Conversely, in 3D hydrogel and tissue contexts, we found NE wrinkling occurred along with increased YAP/TAZ nuclear localization. We further determined that these NE wrinkles in 3D were largely generated by actin impingement, and compared to other nuclear morphometrics, the degree of nuclear wrinkling showed the greatest correlation with nuclear YAP/TAZ localization. These findings suggest that the degree of nuclear envelope wrinkling can predict mechanotransduction state in mesenchymal progenitor cells and highlights the differential mechanisms of NE stress generation operative in 2D and 3D microenvironmental contexts.
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