More than a feeling: Discovering, understanding, and influencing mechanosensing pathways

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 648-654

  Holle, Andrew W ^a   Engler, Adam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL SIGNAL; BIOPHYSICAL INFORMATION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; EXTRACELLULAR ENVIRONMENTS; INTERCONNECTIVITY; MECHANO-TRANSDUCTION MECHANISM; MECHANOSENSING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR STRAIN; MOLECULAR TOOLS;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOLECULAR STRAIN GAUGE PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; ROCK PROTEIN; STRETCH ACTIVATED CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOINFORMATICS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOSKELETON; ION PERMEABILITY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW;

CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80053386595     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.04.007     Document Type: Review

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