Cell Blebbing and Membrane Area Homeostasis in Spreading and Retracting Cells |
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Authors: | Leann L Norman Kheya Sengupta Helim Aranda-Espinoza |
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Institution: | † Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland ‡ École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7083, Paris, France § Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 3118, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanosciences de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France |
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Abstract: | Cells remodel their plasma membrane and cytoskeleton during numerous physiological processes, including spreading and motility. Morphological changes require the cell to adjust its membrane tension on different timescales. While it is known that endo- and exocytosis regulate the cell membrane area in a timescale of 1 h, faster processes, such as abrupt cell detachment, require faster regulation of the plasma membrane tension. In this article, we demonstrate that cell blebbing plays a critical role in the global mechanical homeostasis of the cell through regulation of membrane tension. Abrupt cell detachment leads to pronounced blebbing (which slow detachment does not), and blebbing decreases with time in a dynamin-dependent fashion. Cells only start spreading after a lag period whose duration depends on the cell's blebbing activity. Our model quantitatively reproduces the monotonic decay of the blebbing activity and accounts for the lag phase in the spreading of blebbing cells. |
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