期刊
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
卷 24, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac788e
关键词
cells; tissue homeostasis; competition; mechanical pressure; growing active matter; passive matter; computational modeling
资金
- Max Planck School Matter to Life
- MaxSynBio Consortium - Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of Germany
- MaxSynBio Consortium - Max Planck Society
Competition between different species or cell types depends on the regulation of growth, proliferation, and degradation processes in a limited space. It is found that the by-products of maintaining homeostasis can significantly impact the outcome of cell competition. Interfaces play a critical role in enabling active cells to exploit local growth opportunities.
Competition of different species or cell types for limited space is relevant in a variety of biological processes such as biofilm development, tissue morphogenesis and tumor growth. Predicting the outcome for non-adversarial competition of such growing active matter is non-trivial, as it depends on how processes like growth, proliferation and the degradation of cellular matter are regulated in confinement; regulation that happens even in the absence of competition to achieve the dynamic steady state known as homeostasis. Here, we show that passive by-products of the processes maintaining homeostasis can significantly alter fitness. Even for purely pressure-regulated growth and exclusively mechanical interactions, this enables cell types with lower homeostatic pressure to outcompete those with higher homeostatic pressure. We reveal that interfaces play a critical role for this specific kind of competition: there, growing matter with a higher proportion of active cells can better exploit local growth opportunities that continuously arise as the active processes keep the system out of mechanical equilibrium. We elucidate this effect in a theoretical toy model and test it in an agent-based computational model that includes finite-time mechanical persistence of dead cells and thereby decouples the density of growing cells from the homeostatic pressure. Our results suggest that self-organization of cellular aggregates into active and passive matter can be decisive for competition outcomes and that optimizing the proportion of growing (active) cells can be as important to survival as sensitivity to mechanical cues.
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