Adhesion regulation and the control of cellular rearrangements: From emulsions to developing tissues

L Montel, Q Guigue, LL Pontani - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cell rearrangements are critical for tissue remodeling during diverse biological processes,
such as morphogenesis or cancer progression. They control tissue fluidity and can lead to …

Repeated extrinsic and anisotropic mechanical inputs promote polarized adherens junction elongation

X Yang, T Ferraro, K Molnar, J Pontabry, SR Malanda… - BiorXiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
A key challenge in development is to understand how complex organisms physically
coordinate the morphogenesis of multiple tissues. Here, using biophysical approaches, we …

Remodeling of lipid-foam prototissues by network-wide tension fluctuations induced by active particles

AA Gu, MC Uçar, P Tran, A Prindle, NP Kamat… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Recent advances in the field of bottom-up synthetic biology have led to the development of
synthetic cells that mimic some features of real cells, such as division, protein synthesis, or …