Direct and cell-mediated EV-ECM interplay

O Smirnova, Y Efremov, T Klyucherev, M Peshkova… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EV) are a heterogeneous group of lipid particles excreted by cells.
They play an important role in regeneration, development, inflammation, and cancer …

Invited Review for 20th Anniversary Special Issue of PLRev “AI for Mechanomedicine”

N Xie, J Tian, Z Li, N Shi, B Li, B Cheng, Y Li, M Li… - Physics of Life …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mechanomedicine is a field that combines different areas including biomechanics,
mechanobiology, and clinical applications like mechanodiagnosis and mechanotherapy …

Automated bio-AFM generation of large mechanome data set and their analysis by machine learning to classify cancerous cell lines

O Thomas--Chemin, C Séverac… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Mechanobiological measurements have the potential to discriminate healthy cells from
pathological cells. However, a technology frequently used to measure these properties, ie …

Indentation of living cells by AFM tips may not be what we thought!

O Thomas, C Séverac, E Trévisiol, E Dague - Micron, 2023 - Elsevier
The models used to calculate Young's moduli from atomic force microscopy (AFM) force
curves consider the shape of the indentation. It is then assumed that the geometry of the …

Free energy calculations for membrane morphological transformations and insights to physical biology and oncology

K Parihar, SH Ko, R Bradley, P Taylor… - Methods in …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this chapter, we aim to bridge basic molecular and cellular principles surrounding
membrane curvature generation with rewiring of cellular signals in cancer through …

[HTML][HTML] Asymmetric Crowders and Membrane Morphology at the Nexus of Intracellular Trafficking and Oncology

K Parihar, SH Ko, R Bradley, P Taylor… - Mechanobiology in …, 2024 - Elsevier
A definitive understanding of the interplay between protein binding/migration and membrane
curvature evolution is emerging but needs further study. The mechanisms defining such …