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- Title
Complementary mesoscale dynamics of spectrin and acto-myosin shape membrane territories during mechanoresponse.
- Authors
Ghisleni, Andrea; Galli, Camilla; Monzo, Pascale; Ascione, Flora; Fardin, Marc-Antoine; Scita, Giorgio; Li, Qingsen; Maiuri, Paolo; Gauthier, Nils C.
- Abstract
The spectrin-based membrane skeleton is a major component of the cell cortex. While expressed by all metazoans, its dynamic interactions with the other cortex components, including the plasma membrane or the acto-myosin cytoskeleton, are poorly understood. Here, we investigate how spectrin re-organizes spatially and dynamically under the membrane during changes in cell mechanics. We find spectrin and acto-myosin to be spatially distinct but cooperating during mechanical challenges, such as cell adhesion and contraction, or compression, stretch and osmolarity fluctuations, creating a cohesive cortex supporting the plasma membrane. Actin territories control protrusions and contractile structures while spectrin territories concentrate in retractile zones and low-actin density/inter-contractile regions, acting as a fence that organize membrane trafficking events. We unveil here the existence of a dynamic interplay between acto-myosin and spectrin necessary to support a mesoscale organization of the lipid bilayer into spatially-confined cortical territories during cell mechanoresponse. The cell cortex that supports the plasma membrane contains spectrin, a protein that interacts with the acto-myosin cytoskeleton. Here, the authors analyze spectrin behavior during cellular mechanoresponse and membrane trafficking, and observe spectrin regulation by myosin-driven contractility.
- Subjects
CELLULAR mechanics; CELL contraction; CELL membranes; CELL adhesion; CELL anatomy; MYOSIN; CONTRACTILE proteins
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-020-18825-7