Net39 protects muscle nuclei from mechanical stress during the pathogenesis of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

Y Zhang, A Ramirez-Martinez, K Chen… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Mutations in genes encoding nuclear envelope proteins lead to diseases known as nuclear
envelopathies, characterized by skeletal muscle and heart abnormalities, such as Emery …

Jamming in embryogenesis and cancer progression

E Blauth, H Kubitschke, P Gottheil, S Grosser… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ability of tissues and cells to move and rearrange is central to a broad range of diverse
biological processes such as tissue remodeling and rearrangement in embryogenesis, cell …

Cell–matrix and cell–cell interaction mechanics in guiding migration

HA Le, R Mayor - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Physical properties of tissue are increasingly recognised as major regulatory cues affecting
cell behaviours, particularly cell migration. While these properties of the extracellular matrix …

The cancer microenvironment: mechanical challenges of the metastatic cascade

SE Amos, YS Choi - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The metastatic cascade presents a significant challenge to patient survival in the fight
against cancer. As metastatic cells disseminate and colonize a secondary site, stepwise …

PIP4K2B is mechanoresponsive and controls heterochromatin-driven nuclear softening through UHRF1

A Poli, FA Pennacchio, A Ghisleni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Phosphatidylinositol-5-phosphate (PtdIns5P)− 4-kinases (PIP4Ks) are stress-
regulated phosphoinositide kinases able to phosphorylate PtdIns5P to PtdIns (4, 5) P2. In …

Spatial confinement toward creating artificial living systems

L Shang, F Ye, M Li, Y Zhao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lifeforms are regulated by many physicochemical factors, and these factors could be
controlled to play a role in the construction of artificial living systems. Among these factors …

[HTML][HTML] Confined migration induces heterochromatin formation and alters chromatin accessibility

CR Hsia, J McAllister, O Hasan, J Judd, S Lee… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
During migration, cells often squeeze through small constrictions, requiring extensive
deformation. We hypothesized that nuclear deformation associated with such confined …

Nuclear envelope wrinkling predicts mesenchymal progenitor cell mechano-response in 2D and 3D microenvironments

BD Cosgrove, C Loebel, TP Driscoll, TK Tsinman… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Exogenous mechanical cues are transmitted from the extracellular matrix to the nuclear
envelope (NE), where mechanical stress on the NE mediates shuttling of transcription …

A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals

T Brunet, M Albert, W Roman, MC Coyle, DC Spitzer… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Amoeboid cell types are fundamental to animal biology and broadly distributed across
animal diversity, but their evolutionary origin is unclear. The closest living relatives of …

Microengineering 3D Collagen Matrices with Tumor‐Mimetic Gradients in Fiber Alignment

IM Joshi, M Mansouri, A Ahmed… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Collagen fibers in the 3D tumor microenvironment (TME) exhibit complex alignment
landscapes that are critical in directing cell migration through a process called contact …