Leading edge competition promotes context-dependent responses to receptor inputs to resolve directional dilemmas in neutrophil migration.

ABSTRACT: Maintaining persistent migration in complex environments is critical for neutrophils to reach infection sites. Neutrophils avoid getting trapped, even when obstacles split their front into multiple leading edges. How they re-establish polarity to move productively while incorporating receptor inputs under such conditions remains unclear. Here, we challenge chemotaxing HL60 neutrophil-like cells with symmetric bifurcating microfluidic channels to probe cell-intrinsic processes during the resolution of competing fronts. Using supervised statistical learning, we demonstrate that cells commit to one leading edge late in the process, rather than amplifying structural asymmetries or early fluctuations. Using optogenetic tools, we show that receptor inputs only bias the decision similarly late, o

SUBMITTER: Hadjitheodorou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10150694 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature