bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/570721; this version posted December 20, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Integrin binding dynamics modulate ligand-specific mechanosensing in mammary gland fibroblasts Martina Lerche1, Alberto Elosegui-Artola2, Jenny Z. Kechagia2, Camilo Guzmán1, Maria Georgiadou1, Donald Gullberg3, Pere Roca-Cusachs2, 4, Emilia Peuhu1,5,*, and Johanna Ivaska1, 6, * 1Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland 2Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, 4University of Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain 3University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 5Institute of Biomedicine and FICAN West Cancer Research Laboratory, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland 6Department of Biochemistry, FI-20520 Turku, Finland *Correspondence: Johanna Ivaska,
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[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/570721; this version posted December 20, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Summary The link between the modulation of integrin activity and cellular mechanosensing of tissue rigidity, especially on different extracellular matrix ligands, remains poorly understood. Here, we find that primary mouse mammary gland stromal fibroblasts (MSFs) are able to spread efficiently on soft collagen-coated substrates, resembling the soft mammary gland tissue.