期刊
AXIOMS
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/axioms10010032
关键词
Cellular Potts model; cell migration; nucleus deformation; microchannel device
资金
- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) through the Dipartimenti di Eccellenza Programme (2018-2022)-Department of Mathematical Sciences G. L. Lagrange, Politecnico di Torino [CUP: E11G18000350001]
Cell migration in highly constrained environments is influenced by the nucleus, and can be quantitatively analyzed using microfluidic devices and the Cellular Potts model. The numerical results show a high agreement with empirical data.
Cell migration in highly constrained environments is fundamental in a wide variety of physiological and pathological phenomena. In particular, it has been experimentally shown that the migratory capacity of most cell lines depends on their ability to transmigrate through narrow constrictions, which in turn relies on their deformation capacity. In this respect, the nucleus, which occupies a large fraction of the cell volume and is substantially stiffer than the surrounding cytoplasm, imposes a major obstacle. This aspect has also been investigated with the use of microfluidic devices formed by dozens of arrays of aligned polymeric pillars that limit the available space for cell movement. Such experimental systems, in particular, in the designs developed by the groups of Denais and of Davidson, were here reproduced with a tailored version of the Cellular Potts model, a grid-based stochastic approach where cell dynamics are established by a Metropolis algorithm for energy minimization. The proposed model allowed quantitatively analyzing selected cell migratory determinants (e.g., the cell and nuclear speed and deformation, and forces acting at the nuclear membrane) in the case of different experimental setups. Most of the numerical results show a remarkable agreement with the corresponding empirical data.
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