Cell monolayers sense curvature by exploiting active mechanics and nuclear mechanoadaptation

M Luciano, SL Xue, WH De Vos, L Redondo-Morata… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The early development of many organisms involves the folding of cell monolayers, but this
behaviour is difficult to reproduce in vitro; therefore, both mechanistic causes and effects of …

Tumorigenic mesenchymal clusters are less sensitive to moderate osmotic stresses due to low amounts of junctional E-cadherin

D Mohammed, CY Park, JJ Fredberg, DA Weitz - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The migration of tumorigenic cells is a critical step for metastatic breast cancer progression.
Although the role of the extracellular matrix in breast cancer cell migration has been …

Large-scale curvature sensing by epithelial monolayers depends on active cell mechanics and nuclear mechanoadaptation

M Luciano, SL Xue, WH De Vos, LR Morata, M Surin… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
While many tissues fold in vivo in a highly reproducible and robust way, epithelial folds
remain difficult to reproduce in vitro, so that the effects and underlying mechanisms of local …

Collective cell migration during human mammary gland organoid morphogenesis

FP Hutterer, B Buchmann, LK Engelbrecht… - Biophysics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Organ morphogenesis is driven by cellular migration patterns, which become accessible for
observation in organoid cultures. We demonstrate here that mammary gland organoids …

Tumorigenic epithelial clusters are less sensitive to moderate osmotic stresses due to low amounts of junctional E-cadherin

D Mohammed, PY Chan, JJ Fredberg, DA Weitz - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The migration of tumorigenic epithelial cells is a critical step for metastatic breast cancer
progression. Although the role of the extracellular matrix in breast cancer cell migration has …