Cell migration by swimming: Drosophila adipocytes as a new in vivo model of adhesion-independent motility.
Cell migration by swimming: Drosophila adipocytes as a new in vivo model of adhesion-independent motility.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.semcdb.2019.11.009
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发表时间:
2019-12
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
Paul Martin;Will Wood;Anna Franz
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作者:
Paul Martin;Will Wood;Anna Franz
Several cell lineages migrate through the developing and adult tissues of our bodies utilising a variety of modes of motility to suit the different substrates and environments they encounter en route to their destinations. Here we describe a novel adhesion-independent mode of single cell locomotion utilised byDrosophilafat body cells – the equivalent of vertebrate adipocytes. Like their human counterpart, these large cells were previously presumed to be immotile. However, in theDrosophilapupa fat body cells appear to be motile and migrate in a directed way towards wounds by peristaltic swimming through the hemolymph. The propulsive force is generated from a wave of cortical actomyosin that travels rearwards along the length of the cell. We discuss how this swimming mode of motility overcomes the physical constraints of microscopic objects moving in fluids, how fat body cells switch on other “motility machinery” to plug the wound on arrival, and whether other cell lineages inDrosophilaand other organisms may, under certain circumstances, also adopt swimming as an effective mode of migration.