Distinct cell shapes determine accurate chemotaxis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tweedy, Luke ^a   Meier, Börn ^b   Stephan, Jürgen ^b   Heinrich, Doris ^b,c   Endres, Robert G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; ARTICLE;

CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84883825334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02606     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Stephens, G. J., Bueno de Mesquita, M., Ryu, W. S.& Bialek, W. Emergence of long timescales and stereotyped behaviours in caenorhabditis elegans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 7286-7289 (2001).
2. Hicheur, H., Pham, Q. C., Arechavaleta, G., Laumond, J. P. & Berthoz, A. The formation of trajectories during goal-oriented locomotion in humans. I. A stereotyped behaviour. Eur. J. Neurosci. 26, 2376-2390 (2007). (Pubitemid 47620486)
3. Csermely, D., Bonati, B. & Romani, R. Predatory behaviour of common kestrels (falco tinnunculus) in the wild. J. Ethol. 27, 461-465 (2009).
4. van Haastert, P. J. M.& Postma, M. Biased random walk by stochastic fluctuations of chemoattractant-receptor interactions at the lower limit of detection. Biophys. J. 93, 1787-1796 (2007). (Pubitemid 47403318)
5. Berg, H. C. & Purcell, E. M. Physics of chemoreception. Biophys. J. 20, 93-219 (1977).
6. Keren, K. et al. Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells. Nature 453, 475-480 (2008). (Pubitemid 351733321)
7. Parent, C. A., Blacklock, B. J., Froehlich, W. M.,Murphy, D. B. & Devreotes, P. N. G protein signalling events are activated at the leading edge of chemotactic cells. Cell 95, 81-91 (1998). (Pubitemid 28458026)
8. Manahan, C. L., Iglesias, P. A., Long, Y. & Devreotes, P. N. Chemoattractant signalling in dictyostelium discoideum. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 20, 223-253 (2004).
9. Andrew, N. & Insall, R. H. Chemotaxis in shallow gradients is mediated independently of ptdins 3-kinase by biased choices between random protrusions. Nat. Cell Biol. 9, 193-200 (2007). (Pubitemid 46420862)
10. Bosgraaf, L. & van Haastert, P. J. M. Navigation of chemotactic cells by parallel signalling to pseudopod persistence and orientation. PLoS ONE 4, e6842 (2009).
11. van Haastert, P. J. M. A stochastic model for chemotaxis based on the ordered extension of pseudopods. Biophys. J. 99, 3345-3354 (2010).
12. Wessels, D., Titus, M. & Soll, D. R. A dictyostelium myosin i plays a crucial role in regulating the frequency of pseudopods formed on the substratum. Cell Motil. Cytoskel. 33, 64-79 (1998). (Pubitemid 26013546)
13. Maeda, Y. T., Inose, J., Matsuo, M. Y., Iwaya, S.&Sano, M. Ordered patterns of cell shape and orientational correlation during spontaneous cell migration. PLoS ONE 3, e3734 (2008).
14. Xiong, Y. et al.Automated characterization of cell shape changes during amoeboid motility by skeletonization. BMC Syst. Biol. 4, 33 (2010).
15. Rohde, G. K., Ribeiro, A. J. S., Dahl, K. N. & Murphy, R. F. Deformation-based nuclear morphometry: capturing nuclear shape variation in hela cells. Cytom. Part A 73A, 341-350 (2008). (Pubitemid 351522117)
16. Endres, R. G.&Wingreen, N. S. Accuracy of direct gradient sensing by single cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 15749-15754 (2008).
17. Minina, S., Reichman-Fried, M. & Raz, E. Control of receptor internalization, signalling level, and precise arrival at the target in guided cell migration. Curr. Biol. 17, 1164-1172 (2007). (Pubitemid 46990887)
18. Sucgang, R.,Weijer, C. J., Siegert, F., Franke, J. & Kessin, R. H. Null mutations of the dictyostelium cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase gene block chemotactic cell movement in developing aggregates. Dev. Biol. 192, 181-192 (1997). (Pubitemid 28015656)
19. Meier, B. et al. Chemotactic cell trapping in controlled alternating gradient fields. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 11417-11422 (2011).
20. Skoge, M. et al. Gradient sensing in defined chemotactic fields. Integr. Biol. 2, 659-668 (2010).
21. Meinhardt, H. Orientation of chemotactic cells and growth cones: models and mechanisms. J. Cell Sci. 112, 2867-2874 (1999). (Pubitemid 29430032)
22. Insall, R. H. Understanding eukaryotic chemotaxis: a pseudopod-centred view. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 11, 453-458 (2010).
23. Neilson,M. P. et al. Chemotaxis: A feedback-based computational model robustly predicts multiple aspects of real cell behaviour. PLoS Biol. 9, e1000618 (2011).
24. Shi, C., Huang, C.-H., Devreotes, P. N. & Iglasias, P. A. Interaction of motility, directional sensing, and polarity modules recreates the behaviours of chemotaxing cells. PLoS Comput. Biol. 9, e1003122 (2013).
25. van Haastert, P. J. M., Keizer-Gunnink, I. & Kortholt, A. Essential role of pi3- kinase and phospholipase a2 in Dictyostelium discoideum chemotaxis. J. Cell Biol. 177, 809-816 (2007). (Pubitemid 46873087)
26. Ueda, M. & Shitaba, T. Stochastic signal processing and transduction in chemotactic response of eukaryotic cells. Biophys. J. 93, 11-20 (2007). (Pubitemid 47041647)
27. Rappel, W. & Levine, H. Receptor noise and directional sensing in eukaryotic chemotaxis. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228101 (2008).
28. Mortimer, D. et al. A bayesian model predicts the response of axons to molecular gradients. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 10296-10301 (2009).
29. Amselem, G., Theves, M., Bae, A., Beta, C. & Bodenschatz, E. Control parameter description of eukaryotic chemotaxis. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 108103 (2012).
30. Bagorda, A. et al. Real-time measurements of camp production in live dictyostelium cells. J. Cell Sci. 122, 3907-3914 (2009).
31. Stites, J. et al. Phosphorylation of the dictyostelium myosin ii heavy chain is necessary for maintaining cellular polarity and suppressing turning during chemotaxis. Cell Motil. Cytoskel. 39, 31-51 (1998). (Pubitemid 28042457)
32. Nelson, G. A., Roberts, T. M. & Ward, S. Caenorhabditis elegans spermatazoan locomotion: Amoeboid movement with almost no actin. J. Cell Biol. 92, 121-131 (1982). (Pubitemid 12138116)
33. Smith, Z. J. et al. Cell-phone-based platform for biomedical device development and education applications. PLoS ONE 6, e17150 (2011).