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Stretch-activated force shedding, force recovery, and cytoskeletal remodeling in contractile fibroblasts.


ABSTRACT: The stress fiber network within contractile fibroblasts structurally reinforces and provides tension, or "tone", to tissues such as those found in healing wounds. Stress fibers have previously been observed to polymerize in response to mechanical forces. We observed that, when stretched sufficiently, contractile fibroblasts diminished the mechanical tractions they exert on their environment through depolymerization of actin filaments then restored tissue tension and rebuilt actin stress fibers through staged Ca(++)-dependent processes. These staged Ca(++)-modulated contractions consisted of a rapid phase that ended less than a minute after stretching, a plateau of inactivity, and a final gradual phase that required several minutes to complete. Active contractile forces during recovery scaled with the degree of rebuilding of the actin cytoskeleton. This complementary action demonstrates a programmed regulatory mechanism that protects cells from excessive stretch through choreographed active mechanical and biochemical healing responses.

SUBMITTER: Nekouzadeh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2609955 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Stretch-activated force shedding, force recovery, and cytoskeletal remodeling in contractile fibroblasts.

Nekouzadeh Ali A   Pryse Kenneth M KM   Elson Elliot L EL   Genin Guy M GM  

Journal of biomechanics 20080920 14


The stress fiber network within contractile fibroblasts structurally reinforces and provides tension, or "tone", to tissues such as those found in healing wounds. Stress fibers have previously been observed to polymerize in response to mechanical forces. We observed that, when stretched sufficiently, contractile fibroblasts diminished the mechanical tractions they exert on their environment through depolymerization of actin filaments then restored tissue tension and rebuilt actin stress fibers t  ...[more]

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