DNA nanotechnology for investigating mechanical signaling in the immune system

Y Hu, Y Duan, K Salaita - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Immune recognition occurs at specialized cell‐cell junctions when immune cells and target
cells physically touch. In this junction, groups of receptor‐ligand complexes assemble and …

[HTML][HTML] Building the synapse engine to drive B lymphocyte function

YR Carrasco - Immunology Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
B cell receptor (BCR)-mediated antigen-specific recognition activates B lymphocytes and
drives the humoral immune response. This enables the generation of antibody-producing …

Dynamic Micropatterning Reveals Substrate‐Dependent Differences in the Geometric Control of Cell Polarization and Migration

A Isomursu, J Alanko, S Hernández‐Pérez… - Small …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cells are highly dynamic and adopt variable shapes and sizes. These variations are
biologically important but challenging to investigate in a spatiotemporally controlled manner …

Mechanical regulation of lymphocyte activation and function

A Pathni, K Wagh, I Rey-Suarez… - Journal of Cell …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Mechanosensing, or how cells sense and respond to the physical environment, is crucial for
many aspects of biological function, ranging from cell movement during development to …

Traditional Chinese medicines and natural products targeting immune cells in the treatment of metabolic-related fatty liver disease

Z Li, H Ouyang, J Zhu - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
MAFLD stands for metabolic-related fatty liver disease, which is a prevalent liver disease
affecting one-third of adults worldwide, and is strongly associated with obesity …

Applying Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cell Dynamics to Accelerate Drug Development

X Chen, S Xu, B Chu, J Guo, H Zhang, S Sun, L Song… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cells act as physical computational programs that utilize input signals to orchestrate
molecule-level protein–protein interactions (PPIs), generating and responding to forces …

Autophagy induced by toll-like receptor ligands regulates antigen extraction and presentation by B cells

J Lagos, S Sagadiev, J Diaz, JP Bozo, F Guzman… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The engagement of B cells with surface-tethered antigens triggers the formation of an
immune synapse (IS), where the local secretion of lysosomes can facilitate antigen uptake …

WAVE2 Regulates Actin-Dependent Processes Induced by the B Cell Antigen Receptor and Integrins

A Bedi, K Choi, C Keane, M Bolger-Munro… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
B cell antigen receptor (BCR) signaling induces actin cytoskeleton remodeling by
stimulating actin severing, actin polymerization, and the nucleation of branched actin …

Spatiotemporal analysis of F-actin polymerization with micropillar arrays reveals synchronization between adhesion sites

S Hollander, Y Guo, H Wolfenson… - Molecular Biology of the …, 2024 - molbiolcell.org
We repurposed micropillar arrays to quantify spatiotemporal inter-adhesion communication.
Following the observation that integrin adhesions formed around pillar tops we relied on the …

N-WASP-dependent branched actin polymerization attenuates B-cell receptor signaling by increasing the molecular density of receptor clusters

A Bhanja, MK Seeley-Fallen, M Lazzaro, A Upadhyaya… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Antigen-induced B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling is critical for initiating and regulating B-cell
activation. The actin cytoskeleton plays essential roles in BCR signaling. Upon encountering …