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2017 ; 8
(ä): 14923
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Ray A
; Lee O
; Win Z
; Edwards RM
; Alford PW
; Kim DH
; Provenzano PP
Nat Commun
2017[Apr]; 8
(ä): 14923
PMID28401884
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Directed migration by contact guidance is a poorly understood yet vital
phenomenon, particularly for carcinoma cell invasion on aligned collagen fibres.
We demonstrate that for single cells, aligned architectures providing contact
guidance cues induce constrained focal adhesion maturation and associated F-actin
alignment, consequently orchestrating anisotropic traction stresses that drive
cell orientation and directional migration. Consistent with this understanding,
relaxing spatial constraints to adhesion maturation either through reduction in
substrate alignment density or reduction in adhesion size diminishes the contact
guidance response. While such interactions allow single mesenchymal-like cells to
spontaneously 'sense' and follow topographic alignment, intercellular
interactions within epithelial clusters temper anisotropic cell-substratum
forces, resulting in substantially lower directional response. Overall, these
results point to the control of contact guidance by a balance of cell-substratum
and cell-cell interactions, modulated by cell phenotype-specific cytoskeletal
arrangements. Thus, our findings elucidate how phenotypically diverse cells
perceive ECM alignment at the molecular level.