Mechanisms for flow-enhanced cell adhesion
Mechanisms for flow-enhanced cell adhesion
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DOI:
10.1007/s10439-008-9464-5
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发表时间:
2008-04-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
McEver, Rodger P.
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作者:
Zhu, Cheng;Yago, Tadayuki;McEver, Rodger P.
Cell adhesion is mediated by specific receptor-ligand bonds. In several biological systems, increasing flow has been observed to enhance cell adhesion despite the increasing dislodging fluid shear forces. Flow-enhanced cell adhesion includes several aspects: flow augments the initial tethering of flowing cells to a stationary surface, slows the velocity and increases the regularity of rolling cells, and increases the number of rollingly adherent cells. Mechanisms for this intriguing phenomenon may include transport-dependent acceleration of bond formation and force-dependent deceleration of bond dissociation. The former includes three distinct transport modes: sliding of cell bottom on the surface, Brownian motion of the cell, and rotational diffusion of the interacting molecules. The latter involves a recently demonstrated counterintuitive behavior called catch bonds where force prolongs rather than shortens the lifetimes of receptor-ligand bonds. In this article, we summarize our recently published data that used dimensional analysis and mutational analysis to elucidate the above mechanisms for flow-enhanced leukocyte adhesion mediated by L-selectin-ligand interactions.