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@ARTICLE{Lembong:835085,
author = {Lembong, Josephine and Sabass, Benedikt and Stone, Howard
A},
title = {{C}alcium oscillations in wounded fibroblast monolayers are
spatially regulated through substrate mechanics},
journal = {Physical biology},
volume = {14},
number = {4},
issn = {1478-3975},
address = {Philadelphia, Pa.},
publisher = {IOP Publ.},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-04953},
pages = {045006 -},
year = {2017},
abstract = {The maintenance of tissue integrity is essential for the
life of multicellular organisms. Healing of a skin wound is
a paradigm for how various cell types localize and repair
tissue perturbations in an orchestrated fashion. To
investigate biophysical mechanisms associated with wound
localization, we focus on a model system consisting of a
fibroblast monolayer on an elastic substrate. We find that
the creation of an edge in the monolayer causes cytosolic
calcium oscillations throughout the monolayer. The
oscillation frequency increases with cell density, which
shows that wound-induced calcium oscillations occur
collectively. Inhibition of myosin II reduces the number of
oscillating cells, demonstrating a coupling between
actomyosin activity and calcium response. The spatial
distribution of oscillating cells depends on the stiffness
of the substrate. For soft substrates with a Young's modulus
E ~ 360 Pa, oscillations occur on average within 0.2 mm
distance from the wound edge. Increasing substrate stiffness
leads to an average localization of oscillations away from
the edge (up to ~0.6 mm). In addition, we use traction
force microscopy to determine stresses between cells and
substrate. We find that an increase of substrate rigidity
leads to a higher traction magnitude. For E < ~2
kPa, the traction magnitude is strongly concentrated at the
monolayer edge, while for E > ~8 kPa, traction
magnitude is on average almost uniform beneath the
monolayer. Thus, the spatial occurrence of calcium
oscillations correlates with the cell–substrate traction.
Overall, the experiments with fibroblasts demonstrate a
collective, chemomechanical localization mechanism at the
edge of a wound with a potential physiological role.},
cin = {ICS-2},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-2-20110106},
pnm = {553 - Physical Basis of Diseases (POF3-553)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-553},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000404639300002},
pubmed = {pmid:28378710},
doi = {10.1088/1478-3975/aa6b67},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/835085},
}