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CHAPTER1: DEFINITION OF THE SUBJECT
There is a growing experimental evidence showing a profound influence of the stiffness of the
ECM on adhesion and contractility with increasing stiffness leading to stronger adhesion,
higher pre-stress, and a well spread cell[2,3].
Recently it has been demonstrated that trypsin-induced de-adhesion can be used as an assay for
probing cellular contractility [2]. Upon treatment with trypsin cellECM contacts rapidly
severed. As cellECM contacts are severed, tensile loads within the cytoskeleton suddenly
become unbalanced, causing the cell to rapidly contract to a rounded morphology. Kinetics of
this retraction was observed to obey sigmoidal kinetics with characteristic time constants, and
that the magnitude of these time constants closely track cellular elasticity as measured by AFM.
However ,while faster de-adhesion is observed with increased intra-cellular tension through
activation of cell contractility, faster de-adhesion is also observed upon treatment with higher
dose of trypsin leading to faster breakage of adhesion bonds. Thus de-adhesion is not only
influenced by cellular contractility but also by the rate of bond breakage making it difficult
distinguish between the contribution from these two sources.
To understand the relative importance of adhesion and contractility a formulation for computing
de-adhesion profiles 1-dimesional model of contractile cell of given mechanical properties
placed on an ECM of given mechanical properties and prescribed density of adhesion is
developed by Mandar Inamdar[1] . In this project I have extended the scope of the model by
formulating 2-dimesional model of contractile cell and also incorporating the effect of material
non-linearity and force dependence of bond breakage rate constant. The sensitivity of de-
adhesion profile on each parameter is assessed by varying each of these parameters while
keeping other parameters fixed and comparing de-adhesion profiles.
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CHAPTER2: INTRODUCTION
2.1 General aspects of cell adhesion
The human body consists of around 1013
cells, which can be classified into more than 200
different cell types. In order to function in the way we are used to, the human body has to fulfill
two seemingly contradicting principles. On the one hand, the cells in our body have to adhere to
each other, otherwise it would simply fall apart. On the other hand, they must be able to
reorganize quickly, for example when the body has to react to infection or injury. Nature has
evolved different strategies to cope with these conflicting requirements. On the molecular level,
biological adhesion is based on relatively weak (non-covalent) interactions with short lifetimes
of the order of seconds. In order to achieve long-lived assemblies, the cells in our body adhere
through clusters of adhesions bonds, which prolong lifetime both by large bond numbers and by
facilitating rebinding of single bonds. Because they are highly dynamic, biological adhesion
clusters can react quickly to new stimuli by association and dissociation. On the level of tissues,
cells build up an additional structure, the extracellular matrix (ECM), a network of protein
_laments (e.g. collagen in the connective tissue) which provides structural integrity to the tissue
as a whole. The ECM is secreted by cells during development or after injury and is continuously
remodeled by the cells. It provides structural coupling between the cells without preventing them
from dynamic rearrangements.
Cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix (ECM) has been of particular interest because it plays
important roles in many physiological processes wound healing and tissue regeneration, such as
the regulation of growth, differentiation, migration and survival of cells. The dynamic
equilibrium between a cell and its ECM is established through the balance between the
contractile forces exerted by the cell and the resistance to deformation offered by the ECM (i.e.,
ECM rigidity). This tensional homeostasis plays key regulatory roles in a wide variety of
cellular phenomena, including shape determination, migration, tissue assembly, and fate choice.
The mechanical properties of the substrate upon which cells are cultured have been shown to
influence a variety of cell properties including cell adhesion, spreading, protein expression and
differentiation. Moreover, there is growing evidence that changes in cellular mechanical
properties relevant to this force balance may serve as biomarkers for disease, including various
types of cancer. Many methods have been introduced to measure single-cell mechanical
properties, including atomic force microscopy, micropipette aspiration, traction force
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microscopy, optical tweezers, and intracellular particle tracking. While all of these methods
have proven extremely powerful in producing high-resolution measurements of cellular
viscoelastic properties, efforts to incorporate these methods into high throughput technologies
that might be used to diagnose disease or screen drug libraries based on changes in cell
mechanics have been limited in part by these methods inherently low throughput and low
proclivity toward automation. This in turn has spawned a new generation of high-throughput cell
mechanics technologies including optical stretchersand controlled detachment assays.
The adhesion between cell and ECM is often localized to discrete contact regions called focal
adhesions (FAs), as illustrated in figure 1a. FAs usually evolve from small dot-like adhesions,
commonly referred to as focal complexes (FXs), which are continuously formed and turned over
under the protruding lamellipodia. Mature and stable FAs depend on the clustering of molecular
Figure 1: Schematic of focal contacts in cellECM adhesion based on specific binding between receptors and
complementary ligands. (a) CellECM adhesion localized to discrete focal contacts. (b) Actin bundles
anchored into an adhesion plaque that connects ECM through transmembrane molecular bonds. Focal
adhesions can be exposed to cytoskeletally generated contractile forces in actin bundles, as well as externally
applied loads outside of the cell[4].
bonds, creating an adhesion plaque of complex macromolecular assemblies in which many
cytoskeletal filaments are anchored (figure 1b). The recruitment of actin filaments and integrin
receptors to the contact regime is essential to FAs, and artificially mutated integrins that lack an
ability to connect with cytoskeletal filaments often fail to cluster and are unable to form stable
adhesions . Experimentally, the adhesion clusters between cell and matrix were found to have a
characteristic length scale in the order of a few micrometres.
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CHAPTER 3: MODEL FORMULATION
3.1 2-D viscoelastic model for Cell de-adhesion:
In this model cell is modeled as two dimensional (2-D) viscoelastic object adhered to viscoelastic
substrate by continuous distribution of bonds. In our model we assume that the traction force
applied to substrate is directly proportional to the displacement at that point with proportionality
constant being stiffness of the substrate. The basis for our assumption is that many times the
substrate is not modeled as continuous medium but consisting of a array pillars of viscoelastic
materials which can act like spring and damper system attached to a fixed base.
Figure 2:A schematic representation of 2D cell connected to substrate. The cell layer contracts and is resisted by a
distribution of linear spring-damper systems on the surface[5].
We measure displacements of any point with respect to resting position when contractile stressesin the cell are zero. Initially the cell is completely spread out and is in mechanical equilibriumwith substrate. In this configuration we assume displacement field uc0 (R) and 0(R) represent
bond density per unit area. At this time t=0, De-adhesion is initiated by time dependent
irreversible breakage of bonds at rate r(t) per unit time leading to cell retraction. We can useplane stress conditions with only radial displacements to write the equilibrium equation.
Uc0
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Using Kelvin model of viscoelastic material[7], the stresses at any point R in the cell at any time
t can be written as
where Ec and Gc are elastic and viscous modulus of the cell, respectively.
As the stresses in the cell are in equilibrium with substrate force we can write radial equilibrium equation
for a small element as
Where Es and Gs are stiffness and viscosity, respectively, scaled with respect to thickness, and
is the density of adhesion along the radius of the cell. The substrate displacementUs(R,t)=U0 (R) - Uc(R,t).
To find the initial displacement uc0(r) we assume that the cell was stretched to initial
displacement u0(r) and then attached on substrate to attain an equilibrium condition with zero
radial stress on circumference as there is no external force. We solve following non-dimensionalized differential equation to get uc0(r)
Where r = R/R, u = U/ R0, r1 = Es/Es
Now we use uc0(r) thus found as the initial condition in finding time dependent displacement
uc(r,t). We obtain following simplified equation using 0=Gc/Ec and R0 as metrices of time andlength for nondimensionalization
where r2= r0, r3 = Gs/Gc.
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In the above equation we have assumed simple rate dependence of bond chopping given by
0(r, t) = 0(r)exp(-r2t).Time dependent displacement uc(r, t) can be obtained by solving the
above equation , subject to BCs uc(0,t) = 0, r(1,t) = 0 and initial condition uc(r,0) = uc0(r).
3.2 Simplified 1-D viscoelastic model for Cell de-adhesion:Displacements of any point are measured with respect to resting position when contractile
stresses in the cell are zero. Initially the cell is completely spread out and is in mechanical
equilibrium with substrate. In this configuration we assume displacement field uc0(R) and 0(R)
represent bond density per unit area. At this time t=0, De-adhesion is initiated by time dependent
irreversible breakage of bonds at rate r(t) per unit time leading to cell retraction.
Using Kelvin model of viscoelastic material, the stresses at any point R in the cell at any time t
can be written as
Equilibrium equation for the cell can be written as
We solve following non-dimensionalized differential equation to get uc0(r)
Where r = R/R, u = U/ R0, r1 = Es/Es
To obtain time dependent displacement uc(r,t) we obtain following simplified equation using
0=Gc/Ec and R0 as metrices of time and length for nondimensionalization
(
) where r2= r0, r3 = Gs/Gc.
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CHAPTER 4: RESULTS
To study the effect of different substrate properties on de-adhesion dynamics, we calculate area
A(t)as a function of time and as done in experiments[], we consider normalized area
A(t) = (A0-A(t))/ (A0- A).In our case
In the above model physical properties of the substrate are represented by two dimensionless parameters:
r1 representing the ratio of substrate stiffness to cell stiffness and r 3 representing ratio of substrate
viscosity to cell viscosity.
4.1 Effect of Substrate Stiffness:
To find the effect of substrate stiffness on de-adhesion dynamics r 1 is varied over three orders ofmagnitude from 1 to 1000 keeping other variables constant (r2 = 1, r3 = 10,u0(r)= 0.5r, 0(r) = 6r
4).Under
these condition fastest de-adhesion was observed for r1 = 1 with half saturation time constant 1/2
of 2.3 units. 1/2 is time when A(1/2) =1/2.
Figure 3: Effect of substrate stiffness on de-adhesion. De-adhesion curves computed by varying stiffness ratio r1
over two orders of magnitude from 1 to 100 keeping other variables constant (r2 = 1, r3 = 10, u0(r) = 0.5r, 0(r)
= 6r4).
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These results illustrate that de-adhesion takes place faster on substrate with low stiffness than
substrate with relatively higher stiffness.
4.2 Effect of Substrate Viscosity:
Secondly, de-adhesion may also depend on the viscosity of the substrate. To study the effect ofsubstrate viscosity on de-adhesion profile r2 is varied over three orders of magnitude from 1 to
1000 keeping other variables constant (r1 = 10, r2 = 1, u0(r) = 0.5r, 0(r) = 6r4). As seen in the fig.4
fastest de-adhesion was observed for r3 = 1 with half saturation time constant 1/2 of 2.2 units.
Table 1:this is some table.
Figure 4: Effect of substrate viscosity on de-adhesion. De-adhesion curves computed by varying viscosity ratio
r3 over three orders of magnitude from 1 to 1000 keeping other variables constant (r1 = 10, r2 = 1, u0(r) = 0.5r,
0(r) = 6r4).
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4.3 Influence of distribution of adhesion:
We can expect that the strength of bonds formed between cell and substrate may also have an
influence on de-adhesion. To determine the influence of adhesion strength on de-adhesion we
computed the de-adhesion profile for different values of bond chopping rate r2 {0.5, 1, 5, 10,
50}.
Figure 5:Effect of bond breakage rate on de-adhesion. De-adhesion curves computed for bond breakage rate r 2
{0.5, 1, 5, 10, 50} keeping other variables constant (r1 = 10, r3 = 10, u0(r) = 0.5r, 0(r) = 5r4).
As seen in fig.5, r2 = 0.5 led to de-adhesion profile with half saturation period 1/2 = 3.5 units.A
tenfold incase in r2 led to significant faster de-adhesion response with half saturation period
1/2 = 1 units. Further increase in r2 led to faster de-adhesion with diminishing change in 1/2 for
r2>10.Moreover,the the shape of de-adhesion profile changed from sigmoidal curve to that of a
single exponential curve for high values of r2.
In above calculations we have kept the distribution of adhesions 0(r) the same. However
experimental observations indicate that cells form a discrete number of adhesions with their
substrates, with larger bond adhesions near peripheral region of the cell and smaller adhesions in
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
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the central region. To study the effect of distribution of adhesion, we compare the de-adhesion
profiles arising from the different bond density distribution but having same total number of
bonds 0(r) {2, 4r2, 6r
4} while keeping all other variables constant (r1 = r3 =10, r2 = 1, u0(r) =
0.5r). In first case adhesion was uniform across entire area of the cell while other twodistributions were non-uniform but axially symmetric with strongest adhesions at the peripheral
region and no adhesion at the centre. As seen in fig.6 later two distributions yielded the same de-
adhesion profile suggesting that de-adhesion profile is independent of the adhesion distribution.
.
Figure 6:(b)Effect of distribution of adhesions on de-adhesion was assessed by comparing three different
adhesion distribution plotted in (a) while keeping all other variables unchanged.
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
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4.4 Effect of non-linearity of material:
As experiments illustrate that bio-materials show linear characteristic for only small strains but
behave non-linearly for larger strains .To study the effect of different types of material on de-
adhesion profile we use simplified version of the above model, a1-D model. We calculate de-
adhesion profiles for different stress-strain characteristics linear, strain softening and strain
hardening. Further the stress-strain characteristics were chosen in such manner that stress-strain
curve for small stain is nearly the same .For linear characteristic we use , for strain hardeningwe use and for strain softening we use .The stress-stain characteristicsand de-adhesion profiles for them are plotted in fig.2.
Figure 7:Sketches of stress-strain characteristics of linear, strain-hardening and strain softening materials for(a) small strains upto 0.1(b) large strains upto 2 .De-adhesion profile with different materials for (c) initial
displacement u0=0.1r(d) initial displacement u0=2r.
As seen from the fig.4 for large strains de-adhesion takes place faster in strain hardening material
and slower in strain softening materials than linear material. However near saturation i.e. r =0.99
0.00 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.10
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de-adhesion takes place faster for strain softening material and slower for strain hardening
material than for linear material. From the above study we can say that material non-linearity has
very little significant effect on de-adhesion profile and linear material description of the cell is
sufficient to capture most of the experimentally observed phenomena.
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4.5 Effect Force dependent bond breakage rate:
In all the above analysis we had assumed that the rate constant of bond breakage r2 remains the
same throughout the process of de-ahesion. However the specific receptorligand bonds are
often considered a lock-and-key mechanism, which can transit stochastically between a closed
(binding) state and an open (broken) state. A single closed receptorligand bond in cell adhesion
has a binding energy of 1025 kBT (kBT: the product of Boltzmann constant and absolute
temperature) and can undergo a transition from the original closed state to an open state owing to
thermally activated bond dissociation even in the absence of an external force[4]. The process
of bond dissociation is often regarded as thermally assisted escape over a potential energy
barrier. Application of an external force changes the energy landscape and therefore influences
the rupture process. For time-independent loading, both theories and experiments have indicated
that the dissociation rate koff of a closed bond increases exponentially with a force F acting on
the bond as [6]: koff= k0exp (FxB/kbT)where k0 is the spontaneous dissociation rate in theabsence of the force, xb is the distance between the minimum of the binding potential and the
transition state barrier and kBT is the unit of thermal energy.
To consider the force dependence of the bond breakage we use bond breaking rate given by
Where f(t) is the force in a bond. We use 1-D contracting cell model with adhesion bonds concentrated
only on the extreme edges. By solving coupled differential equations we get de-adhesion profiles as
shown in Fig.8.
Figure 8: Effect Force dependent bond breakage rate blue line shows de-adhesion profile for constant rate
constant during the de-adhesion while red line shows de-adhesion profile for rate constant varying
exponential withforce in a bond during the de-adhesion
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CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION
In the above study we have addressed the influence of substrate properties and cell substrate
adhesions in regulating the de-adhesion dynamics. We have shown that stiffness ratio, viscosity
ratio and bond-breakage rate all play important role in setting de-adhesion time scales. We also
shown that linear material description of the cell is sufficient to capture most of the
experimentally observed phenomena and non-linearity of the material has very little significant
effect on de-adhesion profiles.
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Appendix
Mathematica code for 2-D contractile cell model:
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o[r_]:=6r^4;r1=10;
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Mathematica code for 1-D contractile cell model
r1=10;uo[r_]:=.1r;
o[r_]:=6r4;
Tmax=15.;{r2,r3}={1,1};
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Mathematica code for 1-D cell with different material characteristics:
r1=1;uo[r_]:=2 r;
o[r_]:=5r4;
Tmax=15.;{r2,r3}={1,1};