Cell polarity during wound healing in an insect epidermis

Development ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Nubler-Jung ◽  
R. Bonitz ◽  
M. Sonnenschein
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Cell Migration ◽  
Cell Movement ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Directed Cell Migration ◽  
Cell Components ◽  
Insect Epidermis ◽  
Insect Integument ◽  
Would Healing

The insect integument displays uniform posterior orientation of cuticular denticles or bristles formed by the epidermal cells. We want to understand how cell polarities become uniformly oriented in the plane of the epidermal sheet. Here we test whether directed cell migration disturbs the orientation of denticles. Burning a circular area of epidermal cells beneath the cuticle causes cells to migrate into the resulting wound and the cuticle pattern observed after the subsequent moult depends on the time interval between burning and ecdysis. After a short wound-healing period cuticular protrusions tend to point away from the wound. With increasing would healing periods they tend to point more and more towards the wound centre. These results suggest that the migrating cells tend to orient cuticular protrusions in the direction of cell movement while continued cell movement will bend nascent cuticular protrusions outwards. Cell shape may also determine denticle orientation. I propose that the asymmetric localization of cell components known to determine the orientation of cell migration may also determine denticle orientation in insect epidermal cells.

scholarly journals A PATTERN OF EPIDERMAL CELL MIGRATION DURING WOUND HEALING

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter S. Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Cell Migration ◽  
Epidermal Cell ◽  
Basal Lamina ◽  
Intercellular Junctions ◽  
Mesenchymal Cells ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Open Wound ◽  
Electron Microscopic

Epidermal repair during wound healing is under investigation at both the light and electron microscopic levels. Suction-induced subepidermal blisters have been employed to produce two complementary model wound healing systems. These two model systems are: (a) intact subepidermal blisters, and (b) opened subepidermal blisters (the blister roof was removed immediately after induction, leaving an open wound). From these studies a pattern of movement for epidermal cells in wound healing is proposed. This pattern of movement is the same for both model systems. Epidermal cells appear to move by rolling or sliding over one another. Fine fibers oriented in the cortical cytoplasm may play an important role in the movement of these epidermal cells. Also instrumental in mediating this movement are intercellular junctions (desmosomes) and a firm attachment to a substrate through hemidesmosomes. In the intact subepidermal blisters hemidesmosomal attachment is made to a continuous and homogeneous substrate, the retained basal lamina. In the opened subepidermal blisters contact of epidermal cells is made to a discontinuous substrate composed of sporadic areas of fibrin and underlying mesenchymal cells.

scholarly journals A “traffic control” role for TGFβ3: orchestrating dermal and epidermal cell motility during wound healing

2006 ◽  
Vol 172 (7) ◽  
pp. 1093-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balaji Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Jianhua Fan ◽  
Shengxi Guan ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
Mei Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Cell Migration ◽  
Epidermal Cell ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Skin Wound ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Skin Wound Healing ◽  
Tgfβ Receptor ◽  
Dermal Cells

Cell migration is a rate-limiting event in skin wound healing. In unwounded skin, cells are nourished by plasma. When skin is wounded, resident cells encounter serum for the first time. As the wound heals, the cells experience a transition of serum back to plasma. In this study, we report that human serum selectively promotes epidermal cell migration and halts dermal cell migration. In contrast, human plasma promotes dermal but not epidermal cell migration. The on-and-off switch is operated by transforming growth factor (TGF) β3 levels, which are undetectable in plasma and high in serum, and by TGFβ receptor (TβR) type II levels, which are low in epidermal cells and high in dermal cells. Depletion of TGFβ3 from serum converts serum to a plasmalike reagent. The addition of TGFβ3 to plasma converts it to a serumlike reagent. Down-regulation of TβRII in dermal cells or up-regulation of TβRII in epidermal cells reverses their migratory responses to serum and plasma, respectively. Therefore, the naturally occurring plasma→serum→plasma transition during wound healing orchestrates the orderly migration of dermal and epidermal cells.

scholarly journals I-BAR protein antagonism of endocytosis mediates directional sensing during guided cell migration

2010 ◽  
Vol 189 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel A. Quinones ◽  
Janet Jin ◽  
Anthony E. Oro
Keyword(s):  
Cell Migration ◽  
Cell Movement ◽  
Lipid Binding ◽  
Cellular Migration ◽  
Border Cell ◽  
Guidance Cue ◽  
Directed Cell Migration ◽  
Directional Movement ◽  
Directional Cell Migration

Although directed cellular migration facilitates the coordinated movement of cells during development and repair, the mechanisms regulating such migration remain poorly understood. Missing-in-metastasis (MIM) is a defining member of the inverse Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs domain (I-BAR) subfamily of lipid binding, cytoskeletal regulators whose levels are altered in a number of cancers. Here, we provide the first genetic evidence that an I-BAR protein regulates directed cell migration in vivo. Drosophila MIM (dmim) is involved in Drosophila border cell migration, with loss of dmim function resulting in a lack of directional movement by the border cell cluster. In vivo endocytosis assays combined with genetic analyses demonstrate that the dmim product regulates directed cell movement by inhibiting endocytosis and antagonizing the activities of the CD2-associated protein/cortactin complex in these cells. These studies demonstrate that DMIM antagonizes pro-endocytic components to facilitate polarity and localized guidance cue sensing during directional cell migration.

scholarly journals Anomalous Diffusion as a Descriptive Model of Cell Migration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor D. Luzhanskey ◽  
John P. MacMunn ◽  
Joshua D. Cohen ◽  
Lauren E. Barney ◽  
Lauren E. Jansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Migration ◽  
Anomalous Diffusion ◽  
Mean Square Displacement ◽  
Cell Movement ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Porous Scaffolds ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
3D Environments

AbstractAppropriately chosen descriptive models of cell migration in biomaterials will allow researchers to characterize and ultimately predict the movement of cells in engineered systems for a variety of applications in tissue engineering. The persistent random walk (PRW) model accurately describes cell migration on two-dimensional (2D) substrates. However, this model inherently cannot describe subdiffusive cell movement, i.e. migration paths in which the root mean square displacement increases more slowly than the square root of the time interval. Subdiffusivity is a common characteristic of cells moving in confined environments, such as three-dimensional (3D) porous scaffolds, hydrogel networks, and in vivo tissues. We demonstrate that a generalized anomalous diffusion (AD) model, which uses a simple power law to relate the mean square displacement (MSD) to time, more accurately captures individual cell migration paths across a range of engineered 2D and 3D environments than does the more commonly used PRW model. We used the AD model parameters to distinguish cell movement profiles on substrates with different chemokinetic factors, geometries (2D vs 3D), substrate adhesivities, and compliances. Although the two models performed with equal precision for superdiffusive cells, we suggest a simple AD model, in lieu of PRW, to describe cell trajectories in populations with a significant subdiffusive fraction, such as cells in confined, 3D environments.

A Photoactivable Formaldehyde Donor with Fluorescence Monitoring Reveals Threshold to Arrest Cell Migration

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas P Smaga ◽  
Nicholas W Pino ◽  
Gabriela E Ibarra ◽  
Vishnu Krishnamurthy ◽  
Jefferson Chan
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Cell Migration ◽  
Fluorescence Enhancement ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Cellular Systems ◽  
Live Cells ◽  
First Report ◽  
Cell Lysate ◽  
Intracellular Release ◽  
Biological Analytes

Controlled light-mediated delivery of biological analytes enables the investigation of highly reactivity molecules within cellular systems. As many biological effects are concentration dependent, it is critical to determine the location, time, and quantity of analyte donation. In this work, we have developed the first photoactivatable donor for formaldehyde (FA). Our optimized photoactivatable donor, photoFAD-3, is equipped with a fluorescence readout that enables monitoring of FA release with a concomitant 139-fold fluorescence enhancement. Tuning of photostability and cellular retention enabled quantification of intracellular FA release through cell lysate calibration. Application of photoFAD-3 uncovered the concentration range necessary for arresting wound healing in live cells. This marks the first report where a photoactivatable donor for any analyte has been used to quantify intracellular release.

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