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How cells integrate complex stimuli: The effect of feedback from phosphoinositides and cell shape on cell polarization and motility

Maree, A.F.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2689-2484, Grieneisen, V.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6780-8301 and Edelstein-Keshet, L. 2012. How cells integrate complex stimuli: The effect of feedback from phosphoinositides and cell shape on cell polarization and motility. PLoS Computational Biology 8 (3) , -. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002402

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Abstract

To regulate shape changes, motility and chemotaxis in eukaryotic cells, signal transduction pathways channel extracellular stimuli to the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton. The complexity of such networks makes it difficult to understand the roles of individual components, let alone their interactions and multiple feedbacks within a given layer and between layers of signalling. Even more challenging is the question of if and how the shape of the cell affects and is affected by this internal spatiotemporal reorganization. Here we build on our previous 2D cell motility model where signalling from the Rho family GTPases (Cdc42, Rac, and Rho) was shown to organize the cell polarization, actin reorganization, shape change, and motility in simple gradients. We extend this work in two ways: First, we investigate the effects of the feedback between the phosphoinositides (PIs) , and Rho family GTPases. We show how that feedback increases heights and breadths of zones of Cdc42 activity, facilitating global communication between competing cell “fronts”. This hastens the commitment to a single lamellipodium initiated in response to multiple, complex, or rapidly changing stimuli. Second, we show how cell shape feeds back on internal distribution of GTPases. Constraints on chemical isocline curvature imposed by boundary conditions results in the fact that dynamic cell shape leads to faster biochemical redistribution when the cell is repolarized. Cells with frozen cytoskeleton, and static shapes, consequently respond more slowly to reorienting stimuli than cells with dynamic shape changes, the degree of the shape-induced effects being proportional to the extent of cell deformation. We explain these concepts in the context of several in silico experiments using our 2D computational cell model.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Publisher: Public Library of Science
ISSN: 1553-734X
Date of Acceptance: 7 January 2012
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 13:19
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/119500

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