Spatial integration of mechanical forces by α-actinin establishes actin network symmetry

The actin filament bundling protein α-actinin-4 actually suppresses actin stress fibers by permitting actin turnover

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A theory that predicts behaviors of disordered cytoskeletal networks

(2017) Julio M Belmonte et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Cell Geometry: How Cells Count and Measure Size

(2016) Wallace F Marshall   Annual Review of Biophysics

Mechanoaccumulative Elements of the Mammalian Actin Cytoskeleton

(2016) Eric S. Schiffhauer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Architecture and Connectivity Govern Actin Network Contractility

(2016) Hajer Ennomani et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Quantitative biology on the rise

(2016) Alex Mogilner   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Kank2 activates talin, reduces force transduction across integrins and induces central adhesion formation

(2016) Zhiqi Sun et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Disordered actomyosin networks are sufficient to produce cooperative and telescopic contractility

(2016) Ian Linsmeier et al.   Nature Communications

Boundaries steer the contraction of active gels

(2016) Matthias Schuppler et al.   Nature Communications

Interplay of active processes modulates tension and drives phase transition in self-renewing, motor-driven cytoskeletal networks

(2016) Michael Mak et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanics and dynamics of reconstituted cytoskeletal systems

(2015) Mikkel H. Jensen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Cellular chirality arising from the self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton

(2015) Yee Han Tee et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Self-repairing symmetry in jellyfish through mechanically driven reorganization

(2015) Michael J. Abrams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bidirectional Interplay between Vimentin Intermediate Filaments and Contractile Actin Stress Fibers

(2015) Yaming Jiu et al.   Cell Reports

Generation of contractile actomyosin bundles depends on mechanosensitive actin filament assembly and disassembly

(2015) Sari Tojkander et al.   eLife

Cytoskeletal Symmetry Breaking and Chirality: From Reconstituted Systems to Animal Development

(2015) Christian Pohl   Symmetry-Basel

Dynamics of Cell Shape and Forces on Micropatterned Substrates Predicted by a Cellular Potts Model

(2014) Philipp J. Albert et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Actin Dynamics, Architecture, and Mechanics in Cell Motility

(2014) Laurent Blanchoin et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cell dipole behaviour revealed by ECM sub-cellular geometry

(2014) Kalpana Mandal et al.   Nature Communications

Actomyosin-dependent formation of the mechanosensitive talin–vinculin complex reinforces actin anchoring

(2014) Corina Ciobanasu et al.   Nature Communications

Quantitative analysis of mammalian GIRK2 channel regulation by G proteins, the signaling lipid PIP2 and Na+ in a reconstituted system

(2014) Weiwei Wang et al.   eLife

β1- and αv-class integrins cooperate to regulate myosin II during rigidity sensing of fibronectin-based microenvironments

(2013) Herbert B. Schiller et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Molecular mechanisms of cellular mechanosensing

(2013) Tianzhi Luo et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Integrin-dependent force transmission to the extracellular matrix by  -actinin triggers adhesion maturation

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

(2012) Patrick W. Oakes et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Reprogramming cell shape with laser nano-patterning

(2012) T. Vignaud et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Assembly of non-contractile dorsal stress fibers requires α-actinin-1 and Rac1 in migrating and spreading cells

(2012) Bianca Kovac et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Actin stress fibers - assembly, dynamics and biological roles

(2012) S. Tojkander et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

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

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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

Actin Network Architecture Can Determine Myosin Motor Activity

(2012) A.-C. Reymann et al.   SCIENCE

A new micropatterning method of soft substrates reveals that different tumorigenic signals can promote or reduce cell contraction levels

(2011) Qingzong Tseng et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A role for actin arcs in the leading-edge advance of migrating cells

(2011) Dylan T. Burnette et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Biomechanical regulation of contractility: spatial control and dynamics

(2011) Romain Levayer et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

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

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

α-Actinin 1 and α-actinin 4: Contrasting roles in the survival, motility, and RhoA signaling of astrocytoma cells

(2010) Quincy Quick et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Cytoskeletal coherence requires myosin-IIA contractility

(2010) Y. Cai et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Micropatterning as a tool to decipher cell morphogenesis and functions

(2010) M. Thery   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Nucleation geometry governs ordered actin networks structures

(2010) Anne-Cécile Reymann et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2009) Tom Shemesh et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Biology and Physics of Cell Shape Changes in Development

(2009) Ewa Paluch et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

α-Actinin structure and regulation

(2008) B. Sjöblom et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Mechanisms of actin stress fibre assembly

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