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査読有り
2012年4月

Non-Brownian dynamics and strategy of amoeboid cell locomotion

PHYSICAL REVIEW E
  • Shin I. Nishimura
  • ,
  • Masahiro Ueda
  • ,
  • Masaki Sasai

85
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開始ページ
041909
終了ページ
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
速報,短報,研究ノート等(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.85.041909
出版者・発行元
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Amoeboid cells such as Dictyostelium discoideum and Madin-Darby canine kidney cells show the non-Brownian dynamics of migration characterized by the superdiffusive increase of mean-squared displacement. In order to elucidate the physical mechanism of this non-Brownian dynamics, a computational model is developed which highlights a group of inhibitory molecules for actin polymerization. Based on this model, we propose a hypothesis that inhibitory molecules are sent backward in the moving cell to accumulate at the rear of cell. The accumulated inhibitory molecules at the rear further promote cell locomotion to form a slow positive feedback loop of the whole-cell scale. The persistent straightforward migration is stabilized with this feedback mechanism, but the fluctuation in the distribution of inhibitory molecules and the cell shape deformation concurrently interrupt the persistent motion to turn the cell into a new direction. A sequence of switching behaviors between persistent motions and random turns gives rise to the superdiffusive migration in the absence of the external guidance signal. In the complex environment with obstacles, this combined process of persistent motions and random turns drives the simulated amoebae to solve the maze problem in a highly efficient way, which suggests the biological advantage for cells to bear the non-Brownian dynamics.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.041909
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000302700500004&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.041909
  • ISSN : 1539-3755
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000302700500004

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