Quantification of Nematic Cell Polarity in Three-dimensional Tissues
- Datum
- 16.05.2019
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- 14:30 - 16:00
- Sprecher
- Benjamin M. Friedrich
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, TU Dresden, Germany
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- IMB - Seminar
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- en
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- Biologie
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- How epithelial cells coordinate their polarity to form complex tissues remains a fundamental question in biology. Here, we characterize a unique type of polarity found in liver tissue - nematic cell polarity, which is different from the common vectorial cell polarity in simple epithelia. We propose a conceptual and algorithmic framework to characterize complex patterns of polarity proteins on the surface of a cell in terms of a multipole expansion. To rigorously quantify previously observed tissue-level patterns of nematic cell polarity (Morales-Navarette et al., bioRxiv:495952, 2018), we introduce the concept of co-orientational order parameters, which generalize the known biaxial order parameters S, P , C, D from the theory of liquid crystals. Applying these concepts to three-dimensional reconstructions of single cells from high-resolution imaging data of mouse liver tissue, we show that the axes of nematic cell polarity of hepatocytes exhibit local coordination and are co-aligned with the biaxially anisotropic sinusoidal network for blood transport. Our study characterizes liver tissue as a biological example of a biaxial liquid crystal. The general methodology developed here could be applied to other tissues or in-vitro organoids.
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