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Journal Article
Mechanical regulation of a molecular clutch defines force transmission and transduction in response to matrix rigidity
2016
Overview
Cell function depends on tissue rigidity, which cells probe by applying and transmitting forces to their extracellular matrix, and then transducing them into biochemical signals. Here we show that in response to matrix rigidity and density, force transmission and transduction are explained by the mechanical properties of the actin–talin–integrin–fibronectin clutch. We demonstrate that force transmission is regulated by a dynamic clutch mechanism, which unveils its fundamental biphasic force/rigidity relationship on talin depletion. Force transduction is triggered by talin unfolding above a stiffness threshold. Below this threshold, integrins unbind and release force before talin can unfold. Above the threshold, talin unfolds and binds to vinculin, leading to adhesion growth and YAP nuclear translocation. Matrix density, myosin contractility, integrin ligation and talin mechanical stability differently and nonlinearly regulate both force transmission and the transduction threshold. In all cases, coupling of talin unfolding dynamics to a theoretical clutch model quantitatively predicts cell response.
Integrins and talin are parts of a ‘molecular clutch’ that mechanically links the actin cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix. Elosegui-Artola
et al.
now reveal a tunable rigidity threshold, above which talin unfolds to mediate force transduction.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 14/19
/ 14/3
/ 14/35
/ 82/1
/ Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing - metabolism
/ Adhesion
/ Animals
/ Cellular signal transduction
/ Extracellular Matrix - metabolism
/ Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases - metabolism
/ Mechanotransduction, Cellular
/ Mice
/ Phosphoproteins - metabolism
/ Rigidity
