Mechanotransduction in tumor progression: The dark side of the force

F Broders-Bondon, TH Nguyen Ho-Bouldoires… - Journal of Cell …, 2018 - rupress.org
Cancer has been characterized as a genetic disease, associated with mutations that cause
pathological alterations of the cell cycle, adhesion, or invasive motility. Recently, the …

The wide and growing range of lamin B-related diseases: from laminopathies to cancer

C Evangelisti, I Rusciano, S Mongiorgi… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
B-type lamins are fundamental components of the nuclear lamina, a complex structure that
acts as a scaffold for organization and function of the nucleus. Lamin B1 and B2, the most …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale topological changes restrain malignant progression in colorectal cancer

SE Johnstone, A Reyes, Y Qi, C Adriaens, E Hegazi… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Widespread changes to DNA methylation and chromatin are well documented in cancer, but
the fate of higher-order chromosomal structure remains obscure. Here we integrated …

Intracellular manipulation and measurement with multipole magnetic tweezers

X Wang, C Ho, Y Tsatskis, J Law, Z Zhang, M Zhu… - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
The capability to directly interrogate intracellular structures inside a single cell for
measurement and manipulation is important for understanding subcellular and suborganelle …

Lamin A/C: function in normal and tumor cells

N Dubik, S Mai - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The aim of this review is to summarize lamin A/C's currently known
functions in both normal and diseased cells. Lamin A/C is a nuclear protein with many …

Mechanical stability of the cell nucleus–roles played by the cytoskeleton in nuclear deformation and strain recovery

X Wang, H Liu, M Zhu, C Cao, Z Xu… - Journal of cell …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Extracellular forces transmitted through the cytoskeleton can deform the cell nucleus. Large
nuclear deformations increase the risk of disrupting the integrity of the nuclear envelope and …

SIRT7 mediates L1 elements transcriptional repression and their association with the nuclear lamina

BN Vazquez, JK Thackray, NG Simonet… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Long interspersed elements-1 (LINE-1, L1) are retrotransposons that hold the
capacity of self-propagation in the genome with potential mutagenic outcomes. How somatic …

Lamin A/C promotes DNA base excision repair

S Maynard, G Keijzers, M Akbari, MB Ezra… - Nucleic Acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The A-type lamins (lamin A/C), encoded by the LMNA gene, are important structural
components of the nuclear lamina. LMNA mutations lead to degenerative disorders known …

Increase in lamin B1 promotes telomere instability by disrupting the shelterin complex in human cells

G Pennarun, J Picotto, L Etourneaud… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Telomere maintenance is essential to preserve genomic stability and involves telomere-
specific proteins, DNA replication and repair proteins. Lamins are key components of the …

UnMICST: Deep learning with real augmentation for robust segmentation of highly multiplexed images of human tissues

C Yapp, E Novikov, WD Jang, T Vallius… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Upcoming technologies enable routine collection of highly multiplexed (20–60 channel),
subcellular resolution images of mammalian tissues for research and diagnosis. Extracting …