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| Τίτλος: |
Mechano-crosstalk between living and artificial cells. |
| Συγγραφείς: |
Yu, Xiaolei, Mukwaya, Vincent, Wang, Li, Zhao, Weili, Mann, Stephen, Dou, Hongjing |
| Πηγή: |
Nature Communications; 9/29/2025, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p1-18, 18p |
| Θεματικοί όροι: |
Artificial cells, Macrophages, Tactile sensors, Mechanotransduction (Cytology), Inflammation, Lamellipodia, Cellular mechanics, Cell anatomy |
| Περίληψη: |
The mechanisms underlying the probing and response of cells to direct cell-presented mechanical signals generated in the local microenvironment are important controllers of diverse cell behaviours. Here we construct a model artificial pathogen cell with the similar compartmentalization architecture and same range of tunable rigidity as found in natural cells. By incubating the artificial cells with macrophages, we investigate the mechanisms of mechano-crosstalk between living cells and model protocells. We show that macrophages are equipped with distinct pseudopodia that facilitate the probing of cell-presented mechanical signals. Increasing the rigidity of the artificial pathogen cells enhances the proinflammatory polarization of the macrophages by promoting the docking of the mechanosensitive molecular clutch, actin assembly, and pseudopodia extension. The relationship between cell morphology and functional plasticity involves a mechano-transduction axis including artificial cell rigidity, pseudopodia, and macrophage inflammatory response. Taken together, our model protocells provide a new platform to decouple cell-presented mechanical signals and highlight their role in governing protocell-living cell mechano-crosstalk. Here the authors construct an artificial pathogen cell with tunable rigidity and find crosstalk between these and macrophages. Macrophages probe the artificial pathogen surface, and increasing rigidity of the artificial pathogen promotes proinflammatory polarization of macrophages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Βάση Δεδομένων: |
Complementary Index |