A molecular mechanotransduction pathway regulates collective migration of epithelial cells

Wound healing revised: A novel reepithelialization mechanism revealed by in vitro and in silico models

(2014) Kai Safferling et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Interplay of RhoA and mechanical forces in collective cell migration driven by leader cells

(2014) M. Reffay et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Adherens junction treadmilling during collective migration

(2014) Florent Peglion et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The three-way switch operation of Rac1/RhoA GTPase-based circuit controlling amoeboid-hybrid-mesenchymal transition

(2014) Bin Huang et al.   Scientific Reports

Polarizing cytoskeletal tension to induce leader cell formation during collective cell migration

(2013) Sebastian Rausch et al.   Biointerphases

Chase-and-run between adjacent cell populations promotes directional collective migration

(2013) Eric Theveneau et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Rab11 regulates cell–cell communication during collective cell movements

(2013) Damien Ramel et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Monolayer Stress Microscopy: Limitations, Artifacts, and Accuracy of Recovered Intercellular Stresses

(2013) Dhananjay T. Tambe et al.   PLoS One

Crossroads of Wnt and Hippo in epithelial tissues

(2013) Ilenia Bernascone et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Fellow travellers: emergent properties of collective cell migration

(2012) Pernille Rørth   EMBO REPORTS

Merlin: a tumour suppressor with functions at the cell cortex and in the nucleus

(2012) Wei Li et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Merlin/ERM proteins establish cortical asymmetry and centrosome position

(2012) A. M. Hebert et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Substrate stiffness regulates cadherin-dependent collective migration through myosin-II contractility

(2012) Mei Rosa Ng et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Rac1 Controls Schwann Cell Myelination through cAMP and NF2/merlin

(2012) L. Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

FilGAP, a Rho/Rho-associated protein kinase–regulated GTPase-activating protein for Rac, controls tumor cell migration

(2012) Koji Saito et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Large-scale vortex lattice emerging from collectively moving microtubules

(2012) Yutaka Sumino et al.   NATURE

Classifying collective cancer cell invasion

(2012) Peter Friedl et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanical waves during tissue expansion

(2012) Xavier Serra-Picamal et al.   Nature Physics

Spatial organization of the extracellular matrix regulates cell-cell junction positioning

(2012) Q. Tseng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanical Control of Morphogenesis by Fat/Dachsous/Four-Jointed Planar Cell Polarity Pathway

(2012) F. Bosveld et al.   SCIENCE

The SOX2 response program in glioblastoma multiforme: an integrated ChIP-seq, expression microarray, and microRNA analysis

(2011) Xuefeng Fang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A Tight Junction-Associated Merlin-Angiomotin Complex Mediates Merlin's Regulation of Mitogenic Signaling and Tumor Suppressive Functions

(2011) Chunling Yi et al.   CANCER CELL

Augmented stress-responsive characteristics of cell lines in narrow confinements

(2011) Tamal Das et al.   Integrative Biology

Experimental validation of atomic force microscopy-based cell elasticity measurements

(2011) Andrew R Harris et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Role of YAP/TAZ in mechanotransduction

(2011) Sirio Dupont et al.   NATURE

Collective cell guidance by cooperative intercellular forces

(2011) Dhananjay T. Tambe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Mechanical compression drives cancer cells toward invasive phenotype

(2011) J. M. Tse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glass-like dynamics of collective cell migration

(2011) T. E. Angelini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plithotaxis and emergent dynamics in collective cellular migration

(2011) Xavier Trepat et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Velocity Fields in a Collectively Migrating Epithelium

(2010) L. Petitjean et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The NF2 Tumor Suppressor, Merlin, Regulates Epidermal Development through the Establishment of a Junctional Polarity Complex

(2010) Andrew B. Gladden et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Measuring mechanical tension across vinculin reveals regulation of focal adhesion dynamics

(2010) Carsten Grashoff et al.   NATURE

Light-mediated activation reveals a key role for Rac in collective guidance of cell movement in vivo

(2010) Xiaobo Wang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Collective cell migration requires suppression of actomyosin at cell–cell contacts mediated by DDR1 and the cell polarity regulators Par3 and Par6

(2010) Cristina Hidalgo-Carcedo et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Organizing the cell cortex: the role of ERM proteins

(2010) Richard G. Fehon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Cell Migration Driven by Cooperative Substrate Deformation Patterns

(2010) Thomas E. Angelini et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Inferring individual rules from collective behavior

(2010) Ryan Lukeman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tumor-suppression functions of merlin are independent of its role as an organizer of the actin cytoskeleton in Schwann cells

(2009) D. Lallemand et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Coordination of Rho GTPase activities during cell protrusion

(2009) Matthias Machacek et al.   NATURE

A genetically encoded photoactivatable Rac controls the motility of living cells

(2009) Yi I. Wu et al.   NATURE

Physical forces during collective cell migration

(2009) Xavier Trepat et al.   Nature Physics

Collective cell migration in morphogenesis, regeneration and cancer

(2009) Peter Friedl et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Inherent noise can facilitate coherence in collective swarm motion

(2009) C. A. Yates et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Two Characteristic Regimes in Frequency-Dependent Dynamic Reorientation of Fibroblasts on Cyclically Stretched Substrates

(2008) Simon Jungbauer et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Rac Activation and Inactivation Control Plasticity of Tumor Cell Movement

(2008) Victoria Sanz-Moreno et al.   CELL

Rho GTPase controls invagination and cohesive migration of the Drosophila salivary gland through Crumbs and Rho-kinase

(2008) Na Xu et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Identification of genes that regulate epithelial cell migration using an siRNA screening approach

(2008) Kaylene J. Simpson et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanotransduction in development: a growing role for contractility

(2008) Michele A. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY