Confinement-induced transition between wave-like collective cell migration modes
Vanni Petrolli, Magali Le Goff, Monika Tadrous, Kirsten Martens, Cédric Allier, Ondrej Mandula, Lionel Hervé, Silke Henkes, Rastko Sknepnek, Thomas Boudou, Giovanni Cappello, Martial Balland
This study shows that epithelial cell layers confined to narrow geometries exhibit tissue-level waves that undergo a phase transition, independent of confinement length, revealing an intrinsic mechanism for supracellular distance measurement.
bioRxiv · Dec 13, 2018 · PreprintBiophysics