Cyclic Tensile Strain Controls Cell Shape and Directs Actin Stress Fiber Formation and Focal Adhesion Alignment in Spreading Cells

Tension is required but not sufficient for focal adhesion maturation without a stress fiber template

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Actin stress fibers - assembly, dynamics and biological roles

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Cyclic Stretch Induces Cell Reorientation on Substrates by Destabilizing Catch Bonds in Focal Adhesions

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Fibroblast polarization is a matrix-rigidity-dependent process controlled by focal adhesion mechanosensing

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Actin Fusion Proteins Alter the Dynamics of Mechanically Induced Cytoskeleton Rearrangement

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Cyclic Stress at mHz Frequencies Aligns Fibroblasts in Direction of Zero Strain

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Cyclic stretch-induced stress fiber dynamics – Dependence on strain rate, Rho-kinase and MLCK

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Transient Frictional Slip between Integrin and the ECM in Focal Adhesions under Myosin II Tension

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Cytoskeletal coherence requires myosin-IIA contractility

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Micropatterning as a tool to decipher cell morphogenesis and functions

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Cell shape, spreading symmetry, and the polarization of stress-fibers in cells

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Optimal matrix rigidity for stress-fibre polarization in stem cells

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Myosin II Motor Proteins with Different Functions Determine the Fate of Lamellipodia Extension during Cell Spreading

(2010) Venkaiah Betapudi   PLoS One

Myoblast morphology and organization on biochemically micro-patterned hydrogel coatings under cyclic mechanical strain

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Force propagation across cells: mechanical coherence of dynamic cytoskeletons

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The mechanical integrin cycle

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Force-induced cell polarisation is linked to RhoA-driven microtubule-independent focal-adhesion sliding

(2009) A. M. Goldyn et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

How Cells Tiptoe on Adhesive Surfaces before Sticking

(2008) Anne Pierres et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Do Cells Sense Stress or Strain? Measurement of Cellular Orientation Can Provide a Clue

(2008) Rumi De et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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

(2008) Simon Jungbauer et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Analysis and Interpretation of Stress Fiber Organization in Cells Subject to Cyclic Stretch

(2008) Vikram S. Deshpande   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Talin depletion reveals independence of initial cell spreading from integrin activation and traction

(2008) Xian Zhang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Tensegrity-based mechanosensing from macro to micro

(2008) Donald E. Ingber   PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY