Heterogeneous T cell motility behaviors emerge from a coupling between speed and turning in vivo

© 2020, Jerison and Quake..

T cells in vivo migrate primarily via undirected random walks, but it remains unresolved how these random walks generate an efficient search. Here, we use light sheet microscopy of T cells in the larval zebrafish as a model system to study motility across large populations of cells over hours in their native context. We show that cells do not perform Levy flight; rather, there is substantial cell-to-cell variability in speed, which persists over timespans of a few hours. This variability is amplified by a correlation between speed and directional persistence, generating a characteristic cell behavioral manifold that is preserved under a perturbation to cell speeds, and seen in Mouse T cells and Dictyostelium. Together, these effects generate a broad range of length scales over which cells explore in vivo.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

eLife - 9(2020) vom: 19. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jerison, Elizabeth R [VerfasserIn]
Quake, Stephen R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cell motility
Journal Article
Light sheet microscopy
Persistent random walk
Physics of living systems
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
T cells
Zebrafish

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Date Completed 23.03.2021

Date Revised 23.03.2021

published: Electronic

GEO: GSE137770

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7554/eLife.53933

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310100275