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SUBMITTER: Slovakova J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8872771 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Slováková Jana J Sikora Mateusz M Arslan Feyza Nur FN Caballero-Mancebo Silvia S Krens S F Gabriel SFG Kaufmann Walter A WA Merrin Jack J Heisenberg Carl-Philipp CP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220201 8
Tension of the actomyosin cell cortex plays a key role in determining cell-cell contact growth and size. The level of cortical tension outside of the cell-cell contact, when pulling at the contact edge, scales with the total size to which a cell-cell contact can grow [J.-L. Maître <i>et al.</i>, <i>Science</i> 338, 253-256 (2012)]. Here, we show in zebrafish primary germ-layer progenitor cells that this monotonic relationship only applies to a narrow range of cortical tension increase and that a ...[more]