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Nuclear activation in dual-durotaxing cells on a matrix with cell-scale stiffness-heterogeneity

Kidoaki, S.; Ebata, H.; Moriyama, K.; Kuboki, T.; Tsuji, Y.; Sawada, R.; Sasaki, S.; Okuda, T.; Hamano, K.; Kawano, T.; Yamamoto, A.; Kono, K.; Tanaka, K.

2021-11-01 biophysics
10.1101/2021.10.30.466554 bioRxiv
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Living organisms are typically composed of various tissues with microscopic cell-scale stiffness-heterogeneity, in which some cells receive dynamically fluctuating mechanical stimuli from the heterogeneous extracellular milieu during long-term movement. Although intracellular stress dynamics (ISD), which are closely related to the regulation of cell functions such as proliferation and differentiation, can be characteristically modulated in cells migrating on a matrix with stiffness-heterogeneity, it has been unclear how the mode of fluctuation of ISD affects cell functions. In the present study, we demonstrate that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) dual-durotaxing (i.e., both forward and reverse durotaxis) on microelastically-patterned gels with stiff triangular domains markedly amplify the fluctuation of ISD, nuclear shape, and the spatial distribution of chromatins, which makes the cells remain far from tensional equilibrium. We provide evidence that amplified chromatin fluctuation in the dual-durotaxing MSCs can cause activation of cellular vigor and maintenance of the stemness.

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