Mechanically-driven stem cell separation in tissues caused by proliferating daughter cells

Krämer JC, Hannezo EB, Gompper G, Elgeti J. 2024. Mechanically-driven stem cell separation in tissues caused by proliferating daughter cells. SciPost Physics. 16(4), 097.

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Krämer, Johannes C.; Hannezo, Edouard ISTA ; Gompper, Gerhard; Elgeti, Jens
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The homeostasis of epithelial tissue relies on a balance between the self-renewal of stem cell populations, cellular differentiation, and loss. Although this balance needs to be tightly regulated to avoid pathologies, such as tumor growth, the regulatory mechanisms, both cell-intrinsic and collective, which ensure tissue steady-state are still poorly understood. Here, we develop a computational model that incorporates basic assumptions of stem cell renewal into distinct populations and mechanical interactions between cells. We find that the model generates unexpected dynamic features: stem cells repel each other in the bulk tissue and are thus found rather isolated, as in a number of in vivo contexts. By mapping the system onto a gas of passive Brownian particles with effective repulsive interactions, that arise from the generated flows of differentiated cells, we show that we can quantitatively describe such stem cell distribution in tissues. The interaction potential between a pair of stem cells decays exponentially with a characteristic length that spans several cell sizes, corresponding to the volume of cells generated per stem cell division. Our findings may help understanding the dynamics of normal and cancerous epithelial tissues.
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2024-04-08
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SciPost Physics
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SciPost Foundation
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JE and JK gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Initiative and Networking Fund (IVF) via the grant number ERC-RA-004. Simulations were performed with computing resources granted by RWTH Aachen University under project ‘rwth0475’.
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16
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4
Article Number
097
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IST-REx-ID

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Krämer JC, Hannezo EB, Gompper G, Elgeti J. Mechanically-driven stem cell separation in tissues caused by proliferating daughter cells. SciPost Physics. 2024;16(4). doi:10.21468/scipostphys.16.4.097
Krämer, J. C., Hannezo, E. B., Gompper, G., & Elgeti, J. (2024). Mechanically-driven stem cell separation in tissues caused by proliferating daughter cells. SciPost Physics. SciPost Foundation. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.16.4.097
Krämer, Johannes C., Edouard B Hannezo, Gerhard Gompper, and Jens Elgeti. “Mechanically-Driven Stem Cell Separation in Tissues Caused by Proliferating Daughter Cells.” SciPost Physics. SciPost Foundation, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.16.4.097.
J. C. Krämer, E. B. Hannezo, G. Gompper, and J. Elgeti, “Mechanically-driven stem cell separation in tissues caused by proliferating daughter cells,” SciPost Physics, vol. 16, no. 4. SciPost Foundation, 2024.
Krämer JC, Hannezo EB, Gompper G, Elgeti J. 2024. Mechanically-driven stem cell separation in tissues caused by proliferating daughter cells. SciPost Physics. 16(4), 097.
Krämer, Johannes C., et al. “Mechanically-Driven Stem Cell Separation in Tissues Caused by Proliferating Daughter Cells.” SciPost Physics, vol. 16, no. 4, 097, SciPost Foundation, 2024, doi:10.21468/scipostphys.16.4.097.
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