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Cell cycle progression in confining microenvironments is regulated by a growth-responsive TRPV4-PI3K/Akt-p27Kip1 signaling axis.


ABSTRACT: In tissues, cells reside in confining microenvironments, which may mechanically restrict the ability of a cell to double in size as it prepares to divide. How confinement affects cell cycle progression remains unclear. We show that cells progressed through the cell cycle and proliferated when cultured in hydrogels exhibiting fast stress relaxation but were mostly arrested in the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle when cultured in hydrogels that exhibit slow stress relaxation. In fast-relaxing gels, activity of stretch-activated channels (SACs), including TRPV4, promotes activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway, which in turn drives cytoplasmic localization of the cell cycle inhibitor p27Kip1, thereby allowing S phase entry and proliferation. Cell growth during G1 activated the TRPV4-PI3K/Akt-p27Kip1 signaling axis, but growth is inhibited in the confining slow-relaxing hydrogels. Thus, in confining microenvironments, cells sense when growth is sufficient for division to proceed through a growth-responsive signaling axis mediated by SACs.

SUBMITTER: Nam S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6685709 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cell cycle progression in confining microenvironments is regulated by a growth-responsive TRPV4-PI3K/Akt-p27<sup>Kip1</sup> signaling axis.

Nam Sungmin S   Gupta Vivek Kumar VK   Lee Hong-Pyo HP   Lee Joanna Y JY   Wisdom Katrina M KM   Varma Sushama S   Flaum Eliott Marie EM   Davis Ciara C   West Robert B RB   Chaudhuri Ovijit O  

Science advances 20190807 8


In tissues, cells reside in confining microenvironments, which may mechanically restrict the ability of a cell to double in size as it prepares to divide. How confinement affects cell cycle progression remains unclear. We show that cells progressed through the cell cycle and proliferated when cultured in hydrogels exhibiting fast stress relaxation but were mostly arrested in the G<sub>0</sub>/G<sub>1</sub> phase of the cell cycle when cultured in hydrogels that exhibit slow stress relaxation. In  ...[more]

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