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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 4, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3896
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- BBSRC [BB/F021402, BB/F019769]
- Royal Society
- Human Frontier Science Program Young investigator [RGY0067/2008]
- UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F021402/1, BB/F019769/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/F021402/1, BB/F019769/1] Funding Source: UKRI
While the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying cell protrusion on two-dimensional substrates are well understood, our knowledge of the actin structures driving protrusion in three-dimensional environments is poor, despite relevance to inflammation, development and cancer. Here we report that, during chemotactic migration through microchannels with 5 mu m x 5 mu m cross-sections, HL60 neutrophil-like cells assemble an actin-rich slab filling the whole channel cross-section at their front. This leading edge comprises two distinct F-actin networks: an adherent network that polymerizes perpendicular to cell-wall interfaces and a 'free' network that grows from the free membrane at the cell front. Each network is polymerized by a distinct nucleator and, due to their geometrical arrangement, the networks interact mechanically. On the basis of our experimental data, we propose that, during interstitial migration, medial growth of the adherent network compresses the free network preventing its retrograde movement and enabling new polymerization to be converted into forward protrusion.
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