The biochemical composition of the actomyosin network sets the magnitude of cellular traction forces

Pattern-Based Contractility Screening, a Reference-Free Alternative to Traction Force Microscopy Methodology

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Stress fibres are embedded in a contractile cortical network

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124-Color Super-resolution Imaging by Engineering DNA-PAINT Blinking Kinetics

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Reference-Free Traction Force Microscopy Platform Fabricated via Two-Photon Laser Scanning Lithography Enables Facile Measurement of Cell-Generated Forces

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Filamin A mediates isotropic distribution of applied force across the actin network

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Architecture shapes contractility in actomyosin networks

(2018) Gijsje H Koenderink et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Elastomeric sensor surfaces for high-throughput single-cell force cytometry

(2018) Ivan Pushkarsky et al.   Nature Biomedical Engineering

Principles of Actomyosin Regulation In Vivo

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The size-speed-force relationship governs migratory cell response to tumorigenic factors

(2017) Aldo Leal-Egaña et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Dissipation of contractile forces: the missing piece in cell mechanics

(2017) Laetitia Kurzawa et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Rapid Sequential in Situ Multiplexing with DNA Exchange Imaging in Neuronal Cells and Tissues

(2017) Yu Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Quantifying forces in cell biology

(2017) Pere Roca-Cusachs et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Architecture and Connectivity Govern Actin Network Contractility

(2016) Hajer Ennomani et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mechanical regulation of a molecular clutch defines force transmission and transduction in response to matrix rigidity

(2016) Alberto Elosegui-Artola et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Disordered actomyosin networks are sufficient to produce cooperative and telescopic contractility

(2016) Ian Linsmeier et al.   Nature Communications

Confocal reference free traction force microscopy

(2016) Martin Bergert et al.   Nature Communications

Actin Flows Mediate a Universal Coupling between Cell Speed and Cell Persistence

(2015) Paolo Maiuri et al.   CELL

Forcing cells into shape: the mechanics of actomyosin contractility

(2015) Michael Murrell et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Geometry Regulates Traction Stresses in Adherent Cells

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Fascin Plays a Role in Stress Fiber Organization and Focal Adhesion Disassembly

(2014) Nadia Elkhatib et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Stressing the limits of focal adhesion mechanosensitivity

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Multiplexed 3D cellular super-resolution imaging with DNA-PAINT and Exchange-PAINT

(2014) Ralf Jungmann et al.   NATURE METHODS

A mechanical-biochemical feedback loop regulates remodeling in the actin cytoskeleton

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Forces in Tissue Morphogenesis and Patterning

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Analysis of the local organization and dynamics of cellular actin networks

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

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Molecular motors robustly drive active gels to a critically connected state

(2013) José Alvarado et al.   Nature Physics

Defining Single Molecular Forces Required to Activate Integrin and Notch Signaling

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Self-Organization of Myosin II in Reconstituted Actomyosin Bundles

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

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Arp2/3 Is Critical for Lamellipodia and Response to Extracellular Matrix Cues but Is Dispensable for Chemotaxis

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

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Actin Network Architecture Can Determine Myosin Motor Activity

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Spatiotemporal Constraints on the Force-Dependent Growth of Focal Adhesions

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Reconstitution of Contractile Actomyosin Bundles

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

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Polar actomyosin contractility destabilizes the position of the cytokinetic furrow

(2011) Jakub Sedzinski et al.   NATURE

High-Resolution Quantification of Focal Adhesion Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Living Cells

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

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Myosin II contributes to cell-scale actin network treadmilling through network disassembly

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Measuring mechanical tension across vinculin reveals regulation of focal adhesion dynamics

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Geometric cues for directing the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells

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A Quantitative Analysis of Contractility in Active Cytoskeletal Protein Networks

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Mechanisms of actin stress fibre assembly

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Actin and α-actinin orchestrate the assembly and maturation of nascent adhesions in a myosin II motor-independent manner

(2008) Colin K. Choi et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Comparative Dynamics of Retrograde Actin Flow and Focal Adhesions: Formation of Nascent Adhesions Triggers Transition from Fast to Slow Flow

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A Cytoskeletal Demolition Worker: Myosin II Acts as an Actin Depolymerization Agent

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