3D mesenchymal cell migration is driven by anterior cellular contraction that generates an extracellular matrix prestrain

Basement Membrane Regulates Fibronectin Organization Using Sliding Focal Adhesions Driven by a Contractile Winch

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Cell adhesion in cancer: Beyond the migration of single cells

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Actomyosin contractility-dependent matrix stretch and recoil induces rapid cell migration

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Nuclear positioning facilitates amoeboid migration along the path of least resistance

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Integrins as biomechanical sensors of the microenvironment

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Fiber alignment drives changes in architectural and mechanical features in collagen matrices

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Membrane Tension Orchestrates Rear Retraction in Matrix-Directed Cell Migration

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Vinculin Force-Sensitive Dynamics at Focal Adhesions Enable Effective Directed Cell Migration

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Force Generation via β-Cardiac Myosin, Titin, and α-Actinin Drives Cardiac Sarcomere Assembly from Cell-Matrix Adhesions

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A cytoskeletal clutch mediates cellular force transmission in a soft, three-dimensional extracellular matrix

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Integrin-mediated traction force enhances paxillin molecular associations and adhesion dynamics that increase the invasiveness of tumor cells into a three-dimensional extracellular matrix

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Strain Stiffening of Fibrillar Collagen during Individual and Collective Cell Migration Identified by AFM Nanoindentation

(2016) Sjoerd van Helvert et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fibrous nonlinear elasticity enables positive mechanical feedback between cells and ECMs

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An analysis toolbox to explore mesenchymal migration heterogeneity reveals adaptive switching between distinct modes

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Three-dimensional force microscopy of cells in biopolymer networks

(2015) Julian Steinwachs et al.   NATURE METHODS

Local 3D matrix microenvironment regulates cell migration through spatiotemporal dynamics of contractility-dependent adhesions

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3D Collagen Alignment Limits Protrusions to Enhance Breast Cancer Cell Persistence

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Steering cell migration: lamellipodium dynamics and the regulation of directional persistence

(2014) Matthias Krause et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Physical influences of the extracellular environment on cell migration

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Generation of compartmentalized pressure by a nuclear piston governs cell motility in a 3D matrix

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Matrix Microarchitecture and Myosin II Determine Adhesion in 3D Matrices

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Mechanotransduction of mesenchymal melanoma cell invasion into 3D collagen lattices: Filopod-mediated extension–relaxation cycles and force anisotropy

(2013) Josefine Starke et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Physical limits of cell migration: Control by ECM space and nuclear deformation and tuning by proteolysis and traction force

(2013) Katarina Wolf et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

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

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Nonpolarized signaling reveals two distinct modes of 3D cell migration

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Micro-environmental control of cell migration - myosin IIA is required for efficient migration in fibrillar environments through control of cell adhesion dynamics

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

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Coordination of Rho GTPase activities during cell protrusion

(2009) Matthias Machacek et al.   NATURE

Rapid leukocyte migration by integrin-independent flowing and squeezing

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Fluctuations of intracellular forces during cell protrusion

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