Cell–extracellular matrix mechanotransduction in 3D

A Saraswathibhatla, D Indana… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanical properties of extracellular matrices (ECMs) regulate essential cell behaviours,
including differentiation, migration and proliferation, through mechanotransduction. Studies …

Mechanics and functional consequences of nuclear deformations

Y Kalukula, AD Stephens, J Lammerding… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2022 - nature.com
As the home of cellular genetic information, the nucleus has a critical role in determining cell
fate and function in response to various signals and stimuli. In addition to biochemical …

The principles of directed cell migration

S SenGupta, CA Parent, JE Bear - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cells have the ability to respond to various types of environmental cues, and in many cases
these cues induce directed cell migration towards or away from these signals. How cells …

Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo

CE Zimmerli, M Allegretti, V Rantos, SK Goetz… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The nucleus harbors and protects the genetic information in eukaryotes. It
is surrounded by the nuclear envelope, which separates the nucleoplasm from the cytosol …

Mechanical regulation of chromatin and transcription

S Dupont, SA Wickström - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Cells and tissues generate and are exposed to various mechanical forces that act across a
range of scales, from tissues to cells to organelles. Forces provide crucial signals to inform …

Deep Visual Proteomics defines single-cell identity and heterogeneity

A Mund, F Coscia, A Kriston, R Hollandi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the availabilty of imaging-based and mass-spectrometry-based methods for spatial
proteomics, a key challenge remains connecting images with single-cell-resolution protein …

Mechanical force application to the nucleus regulates nucleocytoplasmic transport

I Andreu, I Granero-Moya, NR Chahare, K Clein… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanical force controls fundamental cellular processes in health and disease, and
increasing evidence shows that the nucleus both experiences and senses applied forces …

Rho GTPase signaling in cancer progression and dissemination

E Crosas-Molist, R Samain… - Physiological …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Rho GTPases are a family of small G proteins that regulate a wide array of cellular
processes related to their key roles controlling the cytoskeleton. Cancer is a multistep …

Lipid saturation controls nuclear envelope function

A Romanauska, A Köhler - Nature Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The nuclear envelope (NE) is a spherical double membrane with elastic properties. How NE
shape and elasticity are regulated by lipid chemistry is unknown. Here we discover lipid acyl …

The nucleus acts as a ruler tailoring cell responses to spatial constraints

AJ Lomakin, CJ Cattin, D Cuvelier, Z Alraies, M Molina… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The human body is a crowded place. This crowding is even more acute
when the regulation of cell growth and proliferation fails during the formation of a tumor …