Mechanosensing via cell-matrix adhesions in 3D microenvironments

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• 作者：Andrew D. Doyle ; ^{adoyle@mail.nih.gov" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Kenneth M. Yamada ; ^{kyamada@dir.nidcr.nih.gov" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Adhesion ; Mechanotransduction ; Collagen ; 3D migration ; Contractility ; Dynamics
• 刊名：Experimental Cell Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：10 April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：343
• 期：1
• 页码：60-66
• 全文大小：1305 K

文摘

The extracellular matrix (ECM) microenvironment plays a central role in cell migration by providing physiochemical information that influences overall cell behavior. Much of this external information is accessed by direct interaction of the cell with ECM ligands and structures via integrin-based adhesions that are hypothesized to act as mechanosensors for testing the surrounding microenvironment. Our current understanding of these mechanical complexes is derived primarily from studies of cellular adhesions formed on two-dimensional (2D) substrates in vitro. Yet the rules of cell/ECM engagement and mechanosensing in three-dimensional (3D) microenvironments are invariably more complex under both in vitro and in vivo conditions. Here we review the current understanding of how cellular mechanosensing occurs through adhesion complexes within 3D microenvironments and discuss how these mechanisms can vary and differ from interactions on 2D substrates.