Pattern-Based Contractility Screening, a Reference-Free Alternative to Traction Force Microscopy Methodology.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
; 13(17): 19726-19735, 2021 May 05.
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ABSTRACT
The sensing and generation of cellular forces are essential aspects of life. Traction force microscopy (TFM) has emerged as a standard broadly applicable methodology to measure cell contractility and its role in cell behavior. While TFM platforms have enabled diverse discoveries, their implementation remains limited in part due to various constraints, such as time-consuming substrate fabrication techniques, the need to detach cells to measure null force images, followed by complex imaging and analysis, and the unavailability of cells for postprocessing. Here we introduce a reference-free technique to measure cell contractile work in real time, with commonly available substrate fabrication methodologies, simple imaging, and analysis with the availability of the cells for postprocessing. In this technique, we confine the cells on fluorescent adhesive protein micropatterns of a known area on compliant silicone substrates and use the cell deformed pattern area to calculate cell contractile work. We validated this approach by comparing this pattern-based contractility screening (PaCS) with conventional bead-displacement TFM and show quantitative agreement between the methodologies. Using this platform, we measure the contractile work of highly metastatic MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells that is significantly higher than the contractile work of noninvasive MCF-7 cells. PaCS enables the broader implementation of contractile work measurements in diverse quantitative biology and biomedical applications.
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01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Microscopía Fluorescente
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
Asunto de la revista:
BIOTECNOLOGIA
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ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA
Año:
2021
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Article
País de afiliación:
Canadá