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The importance of intermediate filaments in the shape maintenance of myoblast model tissues

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Liquid and elastic behaviours of tissues drive their morphology and response to the environment. They appear as the first insight into tissue mechanics. We explore the role of individual cell properties on spheroids of mouse muscle precursor cells and investigate the role of intermediate filaments on surface tension and Young’s modulus. By flattening multicellular myoblast aggregates under magnetic constraint, we measure their rigidity and surface tension and show that they act as highly sensitive macroscopic reporters closely related to microscopic local tension and effective adhesion. Shedding light on the major contributions of acto-myosin contractility, actin organization, and intercellular adhesions, we reveal the role of a major component of intermediate filaments in the muscle, desmin and its organization, on the macroscopic mechanics of these tissue models. Implicated in the mechanical and shape integrity of cells, intermediate filaments are found to be crucial to the mechanics of unorganized muscle tissue models even at an early stage of differentiation both in terms of elasticity and surface tension.
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hal-03933784 , version 1 (10-01-2023)

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Irène Nagle, Florence Delort, Sylvie Hénon, Claire Wilhelm, Sabrina Batonnet-Pichon, et al.. The importance of intermediate filaments in the shape maintenance of myoblast model tissues. eLife, 2022, 11 (2), pp.366. ⟨10.7554/eLife.76409⟩. ⟨hal-03933784⟩
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