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Eroles M, Lopez-Alonso J, Ortega A, Boudier T, Gharzeddine K, Lafont F, Franz CM, Millet A, Valotteau C, Rico F. Coupled mechanical mapping and interference contrast microscopy reveal viscoelastic and adhesion hallmarks of monocyte differentiation into macrophages. NANOSCALE 2023. [PMID: 37378568 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr00757j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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Monocytes activated by pro-inflammatory signals adhere to the vascular endothelium and migrate from the bloodstream to the tissue ultimately differentiating into macrophages. Cell mechanics and adhesion play a crucial role in macrophage functions during this inflammatory process. However, how monocytes change their adhesion and mechanical properties upon differentiation into macrophages is still not well understood. In this work, we used various tools to quantify the morphology, adhesion, and viscoelasticity of monocytes and differentiatted macrophages. Combination of atomic force microscopy (AFM) high resolution viscoelastic mapping with interference contrast microscopy (ICM) at the single-cell level revealed viscoelasticity and adhesion hallmarks during monocyte differentiation into macrophages. Quantitative holographic tomography imaging revealed a dramatic increase in cell volume and surface area during monocyte differentiation and the emergence of round and spread macrophage subpopulations. AFM viscoelastic mapping showed important stiffening (increase of the apparent Young's modulus, E0) and solidification (decrease of cell fluidity, β) on differentiated cells that correlated with increased adhesion area. These changes were enhanced in macrophages with a spread phenotype. Remarkably, when adhesion was perturbed, differentiated macrophages remained stiffer and more solid-like than monocytes, suggesting a permanent reorganization of the cytoskeleton. We speculate that the stiffer and more solid-like microvilli and lamellipodia might help macrophages to minimize energy dissipation during mechanosensitive activities. Thus, our results revealed viscoelastic and adhesion hallmarks of monocyte differentiation that may be important for biological function.
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- Mar Eroles
- Aix-Marseille University, INSERM, CNRS, LAI, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur Lille, U1019 - UMR 9017 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Aix-Marseille University, INSERM, CNRS, LAI, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
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- Univ.Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Mechanobiology, Immunity and Cancer, La Tronche, France
- Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur Lille, U1019 - UMR 9017 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Univ.Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Mechanobiology, Immunity and Cancer, La Tronche, France
- Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche, France
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- Aix-Marseille University, INSERM, CNRS, LAI, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
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- Aix-Marseille University, INSERM, CNRS, LAI, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
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Measuring Cell Mechanical Properties Using Microindentation. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2600:3-23. [PMID: 36587087 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2851-5_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Quantifying cell mechanical properties is of interest to better understand both physiological and pathological cellular processes. Cell mechanical properties are quantified by a finite set of parameters such as the effective Young's modulus or the effective viscosity. These parameters can be extracted by applying controlled forces to a cell and by quantifying the resulting deformation of the cell.Microindentation consists in pressing a cell with a calibrated spring terminated by a rigid tip and by measuring the resulting indentation of the cell. We have developed a microindentation technique that uses a flexible micropipette as a spring. The micropipette has a microbead at its tip, and this spherical geometry allows using analytical models to extract cell mechanical properties from microindentation experiments. We use another micropipette to hold the cell to be indented, which makes this technique well suited to study nonadherent cells, but we also describe how to use this technique on adherent cells.
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Pineau J, Moreau H, Duménil AML, Pierobon P. Polarity in immune cells. Curr Top Dev Biol 2023; 154:197-222. [PMID: 37100518 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2023.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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Immune cells are responsible for pathogen detection and elimination, as well as for signaling to other cells the presence of potential danger. In order to mount an efficient immune response, they need to move and search for a pathogen, interact with other cells, and diversify the population by asymmetric cell division. All these actions are regulated by cell polarity: cell polarity controls cell motility, which is crucial for scanning peripheral tissues to detect pathogens, and recruiting immune cells to sites of infection; immune cells, in particular lymphocytes, communicate with each other by a direct contact called immunological synapse, which entails a global polarization of the cell and plays a role in activating lymphocyte response; finally, immune cells divide asymmetrically from a precursor, generating a diversity of phenotypes and cell types among daughter cells, such as memory and effector cells. This review aims at providing an overview from both biology and physics perspectives of how cell polarity shapes the main immune cell functions.
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- Judith Pineau
- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, INSERM U932, Paris, Cedex, France; Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, INSERM U932, Paris, Cedex, France
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, INSERM U932, Paris, Cedex, France.
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Sadhu RK, Barger SR, Penič S, Iglič A, Krendel M, Gauthier NC, Gov NS. A theoretical model of efficient phagocytosis driven by curved membrane proteins and active cytoskeleton forces. SOFT MATTER 2022; 19:31-43. [PMID: 36472164 PMCID: PMC10078962 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01152b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Phagocytosis is the process of engulfment and internalization of comparatively large particles by cells, and plays a central role in the functioning of our immune system. We study the process of phagocytosis by considering a simplified coarse grained model of a three-dimensional vesicle, having a uniform adhesion interaction with a rigid particle, and containing curved membrane-bound protein complexes or curved membrane nano-domains, which in turn recruit active cytoskeletal forces. Complete engulfment is achieved when the bending energy cost of the vesicle is balanced by the gain in the adhesion energy. The presence of curved (convex) proteins reduces the bending energy cost by self-organizing with a higher density at the highly curved leading edge of the engulfing membrane, which forms the circular rim of the phagocytic cup that wraps around the particle. This allows the engulfment to occur at much smaller adhesion strength. When the curved membrane-bound protein complexes locally recruit actin polymerization machinery, which leads to outward forces being exerted on the membrane, we found that engulfment is achieved more quickly and at a lower protein density. We consider spherical and non-spherical particles and found that non-spherical particles are more difficult to engulf in comparison to the spherical particles of the same surface area. For non-spherical particles, the engulfment time crucially depends on the initial orientation of the particles with respect to the vesicle. Our model offers a mechanism for the spontaneous self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton at the phagocytic cup, in good agreement with recent high-resolution experimental observations.
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- Raj Kumar Sadhu
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
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- Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
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- Laboratory of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
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Brill-Karniely Y, Schwob O, Benny O. The aspect ratio effect on the cytotoxicity of inert nano-particles flips depending on particle thickness, and is one of the reasons for the literature inconsistency. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2022; 4:5257-5269. [PMID: 36540111 PMCID: PMC9724609 DOI: 10.1039/d2na00453d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The interaction of inert nano-particles with cells has significant effect on the potential cytotoxicity of the particles. The role of particle aspect ratio in the interaction with cells was largely studied in the literature; however non consistent conclusions were obtained. In the present study a detailed physical model is presented as well as a set of experimental work and a scan of literature data. The aim was to investigate the role of particle size and aspect ratio in cell uptake, and to examine possible sources of the literature inconsistency. Cells which provide the first line of contact with particles in the human body were incubated with seven types of particles. These included spherical and rod gold nanoparticles, as well as larger spherical polystyrene particles in various sizes. We stress that in order to achieve comparative insight careful attention needs to be given to the experimental conditions and to the data analysis. Furthermore, our physical model shows that conclusions regarding the role of aspect ratio in NP uptake largely depend on the radius of the particles. The aspect ratio cannot be regarded as a sole geometrical parameter which determines the interaction of inert nano-particles with cells. When discussing particles larger than 10 nm (for which passive diffusion is irrelevant), the effect of the aspect ratio flips depending on the particle thickness. For particles thicker than ∼35 nm, the longer they are the more toxic they would be, however this trend opposes for thinner NPs, where larger aspect ratio results in reduced uptake and toxicity. Therefore, rod non-functionalized particles whose thickness is between 15 and 30 nm, and are relatively long, are expected to be the safest, with minimal cytotoxicity.
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- Yifat Brill-Karniely
- Institute for Drug Research, The School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 9112001 Israel
- Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), The Volcani Center Bet-Dagan Israel
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- Institute for Drug Research, The School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 9112001 Israel
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- Institute for Drug Research, The School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 9112001 Israel
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