Heterogeneous T cell motility behaviors emerge from a coupling between speed and turning<i>in vivo</i>

Abstract T cellsin vivomigrate 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 cell-to-cell 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 andDictyostelium. These results suggest that there is a single variable underlying ameboid cell motility that jointly controls speed and turning. This coupling explains behavioral heterogeneity in diverse systems and allows cells to access a broad range of length scales..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 30. Sept. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

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

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/785964

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XBI000630403