Physics of adherent cells

Emergent complexity of the cytoskeleton: from single filaments to tissue

(2013) F. Huber et al.   ADVANCES IN PHYSICS

Thick Filament Length and Isoform Composition Determine Self-Organized Contractile Units in Actomyosin Bundles

(2013) Todd Thoresen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Nonlinear Strain Stiffening Is Not Sufficient to Explain How Far Cells Can Feel on Fibrous Protein Gels

(2013) Mathilda S. Rudnicki et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A kinetic model for RNA-interference of focal adhesions

(2013) Max Hoffmann et al.   BMC Systems Biology

The tension mounts: Stress fibers as force-generating mechanotransducers

(2013) Keith Burridge et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Vinculin tension distributions of individual stress fibers within cell-matrix adhesions

(2013) C.-W. Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

A Mechanochemical Model of Cell Reorientation on Substrates under Cyclic Stretch

(2013) Jin Qian et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Adhesion Dynamics and Substrate Compliance on the Shape and Motility of Crawling Cells

(2013) Falko Ziebert et al.   PLoS One

Multidimensional traction force microscopy reveals out-of-plane rotational moments about focal adhesions

(2013) W. R. Legant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cadherin-based intercellular adhesions organize epithelial cell-matrix traction forces

(2013) A. F. Mertz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrodynamics of soft active matter

(2013) M. C. Marchetti et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Polymorphism and bistability in adherent cells

(2013) Shiladitya Banerjee et al.   Soft Matter

Dissipative interactions in cell–matrix adhesion

(2013) Christina Müller et al.   Soft Matter

Cardiomyocytes from late embryos and neonates do optimal work and striate best on substrates with tissue-level elasticity: metrics and mathematics

(2012) Stephanie F. Majkut et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Actin Filament Elasticity and Retrograde Flow Shape the Force-Velocity Relation of Motile Cells

(2012) Juliane Zimmermann et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Physical Model for Self-Organization of Actin Cytoskeleton and Adhesion Complexes at the Cell Front

(2012) Tom Shemesh et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Self-Organization of Myosin II in Reconstituted Actomyosin Bundles

(2012) Matthew R. Stachowiak et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Contractile Equilibration of Single Cells to Step Changes in Extracellular Stiffness

(2012) Ailey Crow et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Actin Network Growth under Load

(2012) Otger Campàs et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Force Fluctuations within Focal Adhesions Mediate ECM-Rigidity Sensing to Guide Directed Cell Migration

(2012) Sergey V. Plotnikov et al.   CELL

Physical Mechanisms Shaping the Drosophila Dorsoventral Compartment Boundary

(2012) Maryam Aliee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reconstructing the orientation distribution of actin filaments in the lamellipodium of migrating keratocytes from electron microscopy tomography data

(2012) Julian Weichsel et al.   CYTOMETRY PART A

Actin Depolymerization Drives Actomyosin Ring Contraction during Budding Yeast Cytokinesis

(2012) Inês Mendes Pinto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Hyaluronic acid matrices show matrix stiffness in 2D and 3D dictates cytoskeletal order and myosin-II phosphorylation within stem cells

(2012) Florian Rehfeldt et al.   Integrative Biology

United we stand – integrating the actin cytoskeleton and cell–matrix adhesions in cellular mechanotransduction

(2012) Ulrich S. Schwarz et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Deconstructing the third dimension – how 3D culture microenvironments alter cellular cues

(2012) Brendon M. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Extracellular-matrix tethering regulates stem-cell fate

(2012) Britta Trappmann et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Contractile network models for adherent cells

(2012) P. Guthardt Torres et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Stochastic Force Generation by Small Ensembles of Myosin II Motors

(2012) Thorsten Erdmann et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Erratum: Scaling Laws for the Response of Nonlinear Elastic Media with Implications for Cell Mechanics [Phys. Rev. Lett.108, 178103 (2012)]

(2012) Yair Shokef et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Contractile Stresses in Cohesive Cell Layers on Finite-Thickness Substrates

(2012) Shiladitya Banerjee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scaling Laws for the Response of Nonlinear Elastic Media with Implications for Cell Mechanics

(2012) Yair Shokef et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scaling of Traction Forces with the Size of Cohesive Cell Colonies

(2012) Aaron F. Mertz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Contractile Units in Disordered Actomyosin Bundles Arise from F-Actin Buckling

(2012) Martin Lenz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Modeling and Experimental Methods to Probe the Link between Global Transcription and Spatial Organization of Chromosomes

(2012) K. Venkatesan Iyer et al.   PLoS One

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

Evidence of a large-scale mechanosensing mechanism for cellular adaptation to substrate stiffness

(2012) L. Trichet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

F-actin buckling coordinates contractility and severing in a biomimetic actomyosin cortex

(2012) M. P. Murrell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Physically based principles of cell adhesion mechanosensitivity in tissues

(2012) Benoit Ladoux et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Soft Matter Models of Developing Tissues and Tumors

(2012) D. Gonzalez-Rodriguez et al.   SCIENCE

How cells feel their substrate: spontaneous symmetry breaking of active surface stresses

(2012) Benjamin M. Friedrich et al.   Soft Matter

Mechanical Stretching for Tissue Engineering: Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Constructs

(2012) Brandon D. Riehl et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART B-REVIEWS

Sarcomeric Pattern Formation by Actin Cluster Coalescence

(2012) Benjamin M. Friedrich et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Two-Component Polymer Scaffolds for Controlled Three-Dimensional Cell Culture

(2011) Franziska Klein et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Linear and Nonlinear Rheology of Living Cells

(2011) Philip Kollmannsberger et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

The influence of substrate creep on mesenchymal stem cell behaviour and phenotype

(2011) Andrew. R. Cameron et al.   BIOMATERIALS

A three-dimensional random network model of the cytoskeleton and its role in mechanotransduction and nucleus deformation

(2011) Yukai Zeng et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Cooperativity between Integrin Activation and Mechanical Stress Leads to Integrin Clustering

(2011) O. Ali et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Rigidity Sensing Explained by Active Matter Theory

(2011) Philippe Marcq et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Nucleation and Decay Initiation Are the Stiffness-Sensitive Phases of Focal Adhesion Maturation

(2011) Sam Walcott et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Spatiotemporal Constraints on the Force-Dependent Growth of Focal Adhesions

(2011) Jonathan Stricker et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Striated Acto-Myosin Fibers Can Reorganize and Register in Response to Elastic Interactions with the Matrix

(2011) Benjamin M. Friedrich et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Reconstitution of Contractile Actomyosin Bundles

(2011) Todd Thoresen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Life at the Leading Edge

(2011) Anne J. Ridley   CELL

Nematic order by elastic interactions and cellular rigidity sensing

(2011) B. M. Friedrich et al.   EPL

Substrate rigidity deforms and polarizes active gels

(2011) S. Banerjee et al.   EPL

Dependence of cyclic stretch-induced stress fiber reorientation on stretch waveform

(2011) Abhishek Tondon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Actomyosin-generated tension controls the molecular kinetics of focal adhesions

(2011) H. Wolfenson et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Model for self-polarization and motility of keratocyte fragments

(2011) F. Ziebert et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Probing mechanical principles of focal contacts in cell-matrix adhesion with a coupled stochastic-elastic modelling framework

(2011) H. Gao et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Dynamic molecular processes mediate cellular mechanotransduction

(2011) Brenton D. Hoffman et al.   NATURE

Analysis of the myosin-II-responsive focal adhesion proteome reveals a role for β-Pix in negative regulation of focal adhesion maturation

(2011) Jean-Cheng Kuo et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

External forces control mitotic spindle positioning

(2011) Jenny Fink et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Masha Prager-Khoutorsky et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Structure formation in active networks

(2011) Simone Köhler et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Balancing forces: architectural control of mechanotransduction

(2011) Christopher C. DuFort et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Viscoelastic response of contractile filament bundles

(2011) Achim Besser et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Buckling of spherical capsules

(2011) Sebastian Knoche et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Force Localization in Contracting Cell Layers

(2011) Carina M. Edwards et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Effective Temperature of Red-Blood-Cell Membrane Fluctuations

(2011) Eyal Ben-Isaac et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

General Mechanism of Actomyosin Contractility

(2011) Nilushi L. Dasanayake et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Actin Fusion Proteins Alter the Dynamics of Mechanically Induced Cytoskeleton Rearrangement

(2011) Martin Deibler et al.   PLoS One

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

(2011) Uta Faust et al.   PLoS One

Active multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motors

(2011) M. Soares e Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporary increase in plasma membrane tension coordinates the activation of exocytosis and contraction during cell spreading

(2011) N. C. Gauthier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Age-Dependent Changes in Microscale Stiffness and Mechanoresponses of Cells

(2011) Jasmin T. Zahn et al.   Small

The physics of tissue patterning and extracellular matrix organisation: how cells join forces

(2011) P. Kollmannsberger et al.   Soft Matter

How far cardiac cells can see each other mechanically

(2011) Xin Tang et al.   Soft Matter

An Adhesion-Dependent Switch between Mechanisms That Determine Motile Cell Shape

(2011) Erin L. Barnhart et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Dynamics and Mechanical Stability of the Developing Dorsoventral Organizer of the Wing Imaginal Disc

(2011) Oriol Canela-Xandri et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Elastic Fully Three-dimensional Microstructure Scaffolds for Cell Force Measurements

(2010) Franziska Klein et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Physical Biology of the CellPhysical Biology of the CellRobPhillipsJaneKondevJulieTheriotHernanGarcia. 800 pp. Garland Science, Taylor and Francis Group, London, 2008. Price: $130.00(paper) ISBN 978-0-8153-4163-5.

(2010) Bernard Chasan   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Hysteresis in the Cell Response to Time-Dependent Substrate Stiffness

(2010) Achim Besser et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A Model for Stress Fiber Realignment Caused by Cytoskeletal Fluidization During Cyclic Stretching

(2010) Athanassios P. Pirentis et al.   Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Substrate Stiffness and Cell Area Predict Cellular Traction Stresses in Single Cells and Cells in Contact

(2010) Joseph P. Califano et al.   Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Coordination and collective properties of molecular motors: theory

(2010) Thomas Guérin et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Active cellular materials

(2010) Frederick C MacKintosh et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Exploring the effects of mechanical feedback on epithelial topology

(2010) T. Aegerter-Wilmsen et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Soft substrates drive optimal differentiation of human healthy and dystrophic myotubes

(2010) Elena Serena et al.   Integrative Biology

Continuous Photobleaching to Study the Growth Modes of Focal Adhesions

(2010) Alex G. F. de Beer et al.   JOURNAL OF ADHESION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Matrix elasticity, cytoskeletal forces and physics of the nucleus: how deeply do cells 'feel' outside and in?

(2010) A. Buxboim et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Mechanisms of mechanical signaling in development and disease

(2010) P. A. Janmey et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Lateral shear forces applied to cells with single elastic micropillars to influence focal adhesion dynamics

(2010) Patrick Heil et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Model for how retrograde actin flow regulates adhesion traction stresses

(2010) Ying Li et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Modeling cytoskeletal flow over adhesion sites: competition between stochastic bond dynamics and intracellular relaxation

(2010) Benedikt Sabass et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

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

(2010) A Zemel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Perspectives on biological growth and remodeling

(2010) D. Ambrosi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton

(2010) Daniel A. Fletcher et al.   NATURE

Dissecting the molecular architecture of integrin adhesion sites by cryo-electron tomography

(2010) Israel Patla et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Electron tomography reveals unbranched networks of actin filaments in lamellipodia

(2010) Edit Urban et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanical regulation of cell function with geometrically modulated elastomeric substrates

(2010) Jianping Fu et al.   NATURE METHODS

Optimal matrix rigidity for stress-fibre polarization in stem cells

(2010) A. Zemel et al.   Nature Physics

Cytoskeleton reorganization of spreading cells on micro-patterned islands: a functional model

(2010) Y. Loosli et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Nonlinear dynamics of cell orientation

(2010) S. A. Safran et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Single Cells Spreading on a Protein Lattice Adopt an Energy Minimizing Shape

(2010) Benoit Vianay et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Computational Model for Cell Morphodynamics

(2010) Danying Shao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Polarity Patterns of Stress Fibers

(2010) N. Yoshinaga et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

4D Traction Force Microscopy Reveals Asymmetric Cortical Forces in MigratingDictyosteliumCells

(2010) H. Delanoë-Ayari et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Focal Adhesion Dynamics

(2010) Joseph E. Olberding et al.   PLoS One

Fluidization and Resolidification of the Human Bladder Smooth Muscle Cell in Response to Transient Stretch

(2010) Cheng Chen et al.   PLoS One

Simulation of cell motility that reproduces the force-velocity relationship

(2010) C. H. Schreiber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Two competing orientation patterns explain experimentally observed anomalies in growing actin networks

(2010) J. Weichsel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fluidization of tissues by cell division and apoptosis

(2010) J. Ranft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A mechanical model of actin stress fiber formation and substrate elasticity sensing in adherent cells

(2010) Sam Walcott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Real-time single-cell response to stiffness

(2010) D. Mitrossilis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cross-species analysis traces adaptation of Rubisco toward optimality in a low-dimensional landscape

(2010) Yonatan Savir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geometric cues for directing the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells

(2010) K. A. Kilian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Colloquium: Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself

(2010) Markus J. Buehler et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Dynamics of filaments and membranes in a viscous fluid

(2010) Thomas R. Powers   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter

(2010) Sriram Ramaswamy   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Rheology of Soft Materials

(2010) Daniel T.N. Chen et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Kinetic model for lamellipodal actin-integrin 'clutch' dynamics

(2010) Alice Macdonald et al.   Cell Adhesion & Migration

Dissecting the Impact of Matrix Anchorage and Elasticity in Cell Adhesion

(2009) Tilo Pompe et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Recoil after Severing Reveals Stress Fiber Contraction Mechanisms

(2009) Matthew R. Stachowiak et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Role of Focal Adhesions and Mechanical Stresses in the Formation and Progression of the Lamellum Interface

(2009) Tom Shemesh et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Force-Velocity Relation for Actin-Polymerization-Driven Motility from Brownian Dynamics Simulations

(2009) Kun-Chun Lee et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Sarcomere Mechanics in Capillary Endothelial Cells

(2009) Robert J. Russell et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Durotaxis Depends on Substrate Stiffness Gradient Strength

(2009) Brett C. Isenberg et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Live Cells Exert 3-Dimensional Traction Forces on Their Substrata

(2009) Sung Sik Hur et al.   Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Biology and Physics of Cell Shape Changes in Development

(2009) Ewa Paluch et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Increased Cell Bond Tension Governs Cell Sorting at the Drosophila Anteroposterior Compartment Boundary

(2009) Katharina P. Landsberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Shape of Motile Cells

(2009) Alex Mogilner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cell fate regulation by coupling mechanical cycles to biochemical signaling pathways

(2009) Viola Vogel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Homeostatic competition drives tumor growth and metastasis nucleation

(2009) Markus Basan et al.   HFSP Journal

The compaction of gels by cells: a case of collective mechanical activity

(2009) Pablo Fernandez et al.   Integrative Biology

Mechanics of the F-actin cytoskeleton

(2009) Jonathan Stricker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Mechanosensing in actin stress fibers revealed by a close correlation between force and protein localization

(2009) J. Colombelli et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Simulation of the contractile response of cells on an array of micro-posts

(2009) J. P. McGarry et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Binding site models of friction due to the formation and rupture of bonds: State-function formalism, force-velocity relations, response to slip velocity transients, and slip stability

(2009) Manoj Srinivasan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Effect of Adhesion Geometry and Rigidity on Cellular Force Distributions

(2009) Ilka B. Bischofs et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Spontaneous Oscillations of a Minimal Actomyosin System under Elastic Loading

(2009) P.-Y. Plaçais et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Frequency-Dependent Stress Fiber Alignment Induced by Cyclic Stretch

(2009) Hui-Ju Hsu et al.   PLoS One

Reinforcement versus Fluidization in Cytoskeletal Mechanoresponsiveness

(2009) Ramaswamy Krishnan et al.   PLoS One

Non-Linear Elasticity of Extracellular Matrices Enables Contractile Cells to Communicate Local Position and Orientation

(2009) Jessamine P. Winer et al.   PLoS One

Single-cell response to stiffness exhibits muscle-like behavior

(2009) D. Mitrossilis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fibronectin forms the most extensible biological fibers displaying switchable force-exposed cryptic binding sites

(2009) E. Klotzsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An active biopolymer network controlled by molecular motors

(2009) G. H. Koenderink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interferometric fluorescent super-resolution microscopy resolves 3D cellular ultrastructure

(2009) G. Shtengel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Actin, a Central Player in Cell Shape and Movement

(2009) T. D. Pollard et al.   SCIENCE

Growth Factors, Matrices, and Forces Combine and Control Stem Cells

(2009) D. E. Discher et al.   SCIENCE

Physics puzzles on membrane domains posed by cell biology

(2009) Pierre-François Lenne et al.   Soft Matter

The hard life of soft cells

(2009) Paul A. Janmey et al.   CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON

Active Biological Materials

(2008) Daniel A. Fletcher et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

On stress fibre reorientation under plane substrate stretching

(2008) Athanassios P. Pirentis et al.   ARCHIVE OF APPLIED MECHANICS

Dynamics of Cellular Focal Adhesions on Deformable Substrates: Consequences for Cell Force Microscopy

(2008) Alice Nicolas et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mapping Cell-Matrix Stresses during Stretch Reveals Inelastic Reorganization of the Cytoskeleton

(2008) Núria Gavara et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Substrate Stiffness Affects the Functional Maturation of Neonatal Rat Ventricular Myocytes

(2008) Jeffrey G. Jacot et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Filamentous Network Mechanics and Active Contractility Determine Cell and Tissue Shape

(2008) Ilka B. Bischofs 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

Dynamics of Chromatin Decondensation Reveals the Structural Integrity of a Mechanically Prestressed Nucleus

(2008) Aprotim Mazumder et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cell-Cell Mechanical Communication through Compliant Substrates

(2008) Cynthia A. Reinhart-King 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

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Cell Response to a Rigidity Gradient: A Quantitative Study Using Multiple Optical Tweezers

(2008) Myriam Allioux-Guérin et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mathematical Models and Simulations of Cellular Processes Based on Actin Filaments

(2008) Thomas D. Pollard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A multi-modular tensegrity model of an actin stress fiber

(2008) Yaozhi Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Stretch-activated force shedding, force recovery, and cytoskeletal remodeling in contractile fibroblasts

(2008) Ali Nekouzadeh et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Traction stress in focal adhesions correlates biphasically with actin retrograde flow speed

(2008) Margaret L. Gardel et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanotransduction - a field pulling together?

(2008) C. S. Chen   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Embryonic cardiomyocytes beat best on a matrix with heart-like elasticity: scar-like rigidity inhibits beating

(2008) A. J. Engler et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Lifetime and Strength of Adhesive Molecular Bond Clusters between Elastic Media†

(2008) Jin Qian et al.   LANGMUIR

Cell biology: The cellular hullabaloo

(2008) Helen Pearson   NATURE

Scaling of the BMP activation gradient in Xenopus embryos

(2008) Danny Ben-Zvi et al.   NATURE

Nature and anisotropy of cortical forces orienting Drosophila tissue morphogenesis

(2008) Matteo Rauzi et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Physical approaches to biomaterial design

(2008) Samir Mitragotri et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Environmental sensing through focal adhesions

(2008) Benjamin Geiger et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanotransduction at a distance: mechanically coupling the extracellular matrix with the nucleus

(2008) Ning Wang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Kinetics of stress fibers

(2008) Matthew R Stachowiak et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Dynamical theory of active cellular response to external stress

(2008) Rumi De et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Transient Binding and Dissipation in Cross-Linked Actin Networks

(2008) O. Lieleg et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Force-induced growth of adhesion domains is controlled by receptor mobility

(2008) A.-S. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Traction Dynamics of Filopodia on Compliant Substrates

(2008) C. E. Chan et al.   SCIENCE

Tensegrity-guided self assembly: from molecules to living cells

(2008) Dimitrije Stamenović et al.   Soft Matter

Actin stress fiber pre-extension in human aortic endothelial cells

(2008) Lan Lu et al.   CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON

Propagation of Mechanical Stress through the Actin Cytoskeleton toward Focal Adhesions: Model and Experiment

(2007) Raja Paul et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

High Resolution Traction Force Microscopy Based on Experimental and Computational Advances

(2007) Benedikt Sabass et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The simulation of stress fibre and focal adhesion development in cells on patterned substrates

(2007) A. Pathak et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface