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Impact of baculoviral transduction of fluorescent actin on cellular forces

Sara Bouizakarne
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Alice Nicolas
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Live staining of actin brings valuable information in the field of mechanobiology. Gene transfer of GFP-actin has been reported to disturb cell rheological properties while gene transfer of fluorescent actin binding proteins was not. However the influence of gene transfer on cellular forces in adhered cells has never been investigated. This would provide a more complete picture of mechanical disorders induced by actin live staining for mechanobiology studies. Indeed, most of these techniques were shown to alter cell morphology. Change in cell morphology may in itself be sufficient to perturb cellular forces. Here we focus on quantifying the alterations of cellular stresses that result from baculoviral transduction of GFP-actin in MDCK cell line. We report that GFP-actin transduction increases the proportion of cells with large intracellular or surface stresses, especially in epithelia with low cell density. We show that the enhancement of the mechanical stresses is accompanied by small perturbations of cell shape, but not by a significant change in cell size. We thus conclude that this live staining method enhances the cellular forces but only brings subtle shape alterations.
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hal-03971453 , version 1 (03-02-2023)

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Sara Bouizakarne, Jocelyn Etienne, Alice Nicolas. Impact of baculoviral transduction of fluorescent actin on cellular forces. European Journal of Cell Biology, 2023, 102 (2), ⟨10.1016/j.ejcb.2023.151294⟩. ⟨hal-03971453⟩
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