PUBLICATION
Cortical Flow-Driven Shapes of Nonadherent Cells
- Authors
- Callan-Jones, A.C., Ruprecht, V., Wieser, S., Heisenberg, C.P., Voituriez, R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170214-42
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Physical review letters 116: 028102 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp, Ruprecht, Verena
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Adhesion/physiology
- Cell Polarity/physiology
- Cell Shape/physiology*
- Cytoplasm/physiology*
- Models, Biological*
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 26824569 Full text @ Phys. Rev. Lett.
Citation
Callan-Jones, A.C., Ruprecht, V., Wieser, S., Heisenberg, C.P., Voituriez, R. (2016) Cortical Flow-Driven Shapes of Nonadherent Cells. Physical review letters. 116:028102.
Abstract
Nonadherent polarized cells have been observed to have a pearlike, elongated shape. Using a minimal model that describes the cell cortex as a thin layer of contractile active gel, we show that the anisotropy of active stresses, controlled by cortical viscosity and filament ordering, can account for this morphology. The predicted shapes can be determined from the flow pattern only; they prove to be independent of the mechanism at the origin of the cortical flow, and are only weakly sensitive to the cytoplasmic rheology. In the case of actin flows resulting from a contractile instability, we propose a phase diagram of three-dimensional cell shapes that encompasses nonpolarized spherical, elongated, as well as oblate shapes, all of which have been observed in experiment.
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