Mechanosensing in actin stress fibers revealed by a close correlation between force and protein localization

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1665-1679

  Colombelli, Julien ^a,f   Besser, Achim ^b   Kress, Holger ^a,c   Reynaud, Emmanuel G ^a   Girard, Philippe ^a   Caussinus, Emmanuel ^d   Haselmann, Uta ^a   Small, John V ^e   Schwarz, Ulrich S ^b   Stelzer, Ernst H K ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^f INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

actinin; Actomyosin contractility; Correlative microscopy; Laser nanosurgery; Mechanosensing; Stress fibers; Viscoelasticity; Zyxin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ZYXIN; BLEBBISTATIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MYOSIN IIA; ZYX102 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE; FORCE; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NANOSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRESS FIBER; ERRATUM; ERROR; ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL STRAIN 3T3; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ELASTICITY; FOCAL ADHESION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT KANGAROO; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELASTICITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; FOCAL ADHESIONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LASER THERAPY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONMUSCLE MYOSIN TYPE IIA; POTOROIDAE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STRESS FIBERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWISS 3T3 CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 67650541328     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.042986     Document Type: Article

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