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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Cells navigating through complex tissues face a fundamental challenge: while
multiple protrusions explore different paths, the cell needs to avoid entanglement.
How a cell surveys and then corrects its own shape is poorly understood. Here,
we demonstrate that spatially distinct microtubule dynamics regulate amoeboid
cell migration by locally promoting the retraction of protrusions. In migrating
dendritic cells, local microtubule depolymerization within protrusions remote
from the microtubule organizing center triggers actomyosin contractility controlled
by RhoA and its exchange factor Lfc. Depletion of Lfc leads to aberrant myosin
localization, thereby causing two effects that rate-limit locomotion: (1) impaired
cell edge coordination during path finding and (2) defective adhesion resolution.
Compromised shape control is particularly hindering in geometrically complex microenvironments,
where it leads to entanglement and ultimately fragmentation of the cell body.
We thus demonstrate that microtubules can act as a proprioceptive device: they
sense cell shape and control actomyosin retraction to sustain cellular coherence.'
acknowledged_ssus:
- _id: LifeSc
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- _id: PreCl
acknowledgement: "The authors thank the Scientific Service Units (Life Sciences, Bioimaging,
Preclinical) of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for excellent support.
This work was funded by the European Research Council (ERC StG 281556 and CoG 724373),
two grants from the Austrian\r\nScience Fund (FWF; P29911 and DK Nanocell W1250-B20
to M. Sixt) and by the German Research Foundation (DFG SFB1032 project B09) to O.
Thorn-Seshold and D. Trauner. J. Renkawitz was supported by ISTFELLOW funding from
the People Program (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under the Research Executive Agency grant agreement (291734)
and a European Molecular Biology Organization long-term fellowship (ALTF 1396-2014)
co-funded by the European Commission (LTFCOFUND2013, GA-2013-609409), E. Kiermaier
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s
Excellence Strategy—EXC 2151—390873048, and H. Hacker by the American Lebanese Syrian
Associated ¨Charities. K.-D. Fischer was supported by the Analysis, Imaging and
Modelling of Neuronal and Inflammatory Processes graduate school funded by the Ministry
of Economics, Science, and Digitisation of the State Saxony-Anhalt and by the European
Funds for Social and Regional Development."
article_number: e201907154
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article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Aglaja
full_name: Kopf, Aglaja
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last_name: Kopf
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- first_name: Jörg
full_name: Renkawitz, Jörg
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last_name: Renkawitz
orcid: 0000-0003-2856-3369
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Hauschild, Robert
id: 4E01D6B4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Hauschild
orcid: 0000-0001-9843-3522
- first_name: Irute
full_name: Girkontaite, Irute
last_name: Girkontaite
- first_name: Kerry
full_name: Tedford, Kerry
last_name: Tedford
- first_name: Jack
full_name: Merrin, Jack
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last_name: Merrin
orcid: 0000-0001-5145-4609
- first_name: Oliver
full_name: Thorn-Seshold, Oliver
last_name: Thorn-Seshold
- first_name: Dirk
full_name: Trauner, Dirk
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last_name: Trauner
- first_name: Hans
full_name: Häcker, Hans
last_name: Häcker
- first_name: Klaus Dieter
full_name: Fischer, Klaus Dieter
last_name: Fischer
- first_name: Eva
full_name: Kiermaier, Eva
id: 3EB04B78-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Kiermaier
orcid: 0000-0001-6165-5738
- first_name: Michael K
full_name: Sixt, Michael K
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last_name: Sixt
orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179
citation:
ama: Kopf A, Renkawitz J, Hauschild R, et al. Microtubules control cellular shape
and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells. The Journal of Cell Biology.
2020;219(6). doi:10.1083/jcb.201907154
apa: Kopf, A., Renkawitz, J., Hauschild, R., Girkontaite, I., Tedford, K., Merrin,
J., … Sixt, M. K. (2020). Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence in
amoeboid migrating cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. Rockefeller University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201907154
chicago: Kopf, Aglaja, Jörg Renkawitz, Robert Hauschild, Irute Girkontaite, Kerry
Tedford, Jack Merrin, Oliver Thorn-Seshold, et al. “Microtubules Control Cellular
Shape and Coherence in Amoeboid Migrating Cells.” The Journal of Cell Biology.
Rockefeller University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201907154.
ieee: A. Kopf et al., “Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence
in amoeboid migrating cells,” The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 219, no.
6. Rockefeller University Press, 2020.
ista: Kopf A, Renkawitz J, Hauschild R, Girkontaite I, Tedford K, Merrin J, Thorn-Seshold
O, Trauner D, Häcker H, Fischer KD, Kiermaier E, Sixt MK. 2020. Microtubules control
cellular shape and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells. The Journal of Cell
Biology. 219(6), e201907154.
mla: Kopf, Aglaja, et al. “Microtubules Control Cellular Shape and Coherence in
Amoeboid Migrating Cells.” The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 219, no. 6,
e201907154, Rockefeller University Press, 2020, doi:10.1083/jcb.201907154.
short: A. Kopf, J. Renkawitz, R. Hauschild, I. Girkontaite, K. Tedford, J. Merrin,
O. Thorn-Seshold, D. Trauner, H. Häcker, K.D. Fischer, E. Kiermaier, M.K. Sixt,
The Journal of Cell Biology 219 (2020).
date_created: 2020-05-24T22:00:56Z
date_published: 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-21T06:28:17Z
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title: Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells
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