Bioactive potential of natural biomaterials: Identification, retention and assessment of biological properties

K Joyce, GT Fabra, Y Bozkurt, A Pandit - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomaterials have had an increasingly important role in recent decades, in biomedical
device design and the development of tissue engineering solutions for cell delivery, drug …

The extracellular matrix modulates the metastatic journey

FB Kai, AP Drain, VM Weaver - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
The extracellular matrix is perturbed in tumors. The tumor matrix promotes the growth,
survival, and invasion of the cancer and modifies fibroblast and immune cell behavior to …

Definition of a consensus integrin adhesome and its dynamics during adhesion complex assembly and disassembly

ER Horton, A Byron, JA Askari, DHJ Ng… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Integrin receptor activation initiates the formation of integrin adhesion complexes (IACs) at
the cell membrane that transduce adhesion-dependent signals to control a multitude of …

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans

S Sarrazin, WC Lamanna… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans are found at the cell surface and in the extracellular matrix,
where they interact with a plethora of ligands. Over the last decade, new insights have …

Syndecans–key regulators of cell signaling and biological functions

NA Afratis, D Nikitovic, HAB Multhaupt… - The FEBS …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Syndecans are a small family of four transmembrane proteoglycans in mammals. They have
similar structural organization, consisting of an N‐terminal ectodomain, single …

[HTML][HTML] Heparan sulfate proteoglycan as a cell-surface endocytosis receptor

HC Christianson, M Belting - Matrix Biology, 2014 - Elsevier
How various macromolecules are exchanged between cells and how they gain entry into
recipient cells are fundamental questions in cell biology with important implications eg non …

Random versus directionally persistent cell migration

RJ Petrie, AD Doyle, KM Yamada - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2009 - nature.com
Directional migration is an important component of cell motility. Although the basic
mechanisms of random cell movement are well characterized, no single model explains the …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanosensing via cell-matrix adhesions in 3D microenvironments

AD Doyle, KM Yamada - Experimental cell research, 2016 - Elsevier
The extracellular matrix (ECM) microenvironment plays a central role in cell migration by
providing physiochemical information that influences overall cell behavior. Much of this …

[HTML][HTML] Production of food-grade microcarriers based on by-products from the food industry to facilitate the expansion of bovine skeletal muscle satellite cells for …

RC Andreassen, SB Rønning, NT Solberg, KG Grønlien… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
A major challenge for successful cultured meat production is the requirement for large
quantities of skeletal muscle satellite cells (MuSCs). Commercial microcarriers (MCs), such …

Nonpolarized signaling reveals two distinct modes of 3D cell migration

RJ Petrie, N Gavara, RS Chadwick… - Journal of Cell Biology, 2012 - rupress.org
We search in this paper for context-specific modes of three-dimensional (3D) cell migration
using imaging for phosphatidylinositol (3, 4, 5)-trisphosphate (PIP3) and active Rac1 and …