Movie S2.

Cell moving under 100 Pa compressive load and 0.5% agarose gel. An aggregation competent Ax2 cell expressing ABD-GFP as a reporter for F-actin, is chemotaxing to cyclic-AMP under 0.5% agarose and a compressive load of 100 Pa. The cell migrates with a combination of blebs (indicated by *) and pseudopods. Majority of blebs are formed at the leading edge. Taken by a laser scanning confocal microscope (Zeiss 780) at 2 frames per second about 8-10 minutes after the load is applied.

Pressure sensing through Piezo channels controls whether cells migrate with blebs or pseudopods

Nishit Srivastava, David Traynor, Matthieu Piel, Alexandre J. Kabla, and Robert R. Kay

PNAS. 2020. 117:2506-2512 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905730117