Actomyosin bundles serve as a tension sensor and a platform for ERK activation

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 250-257

  Hirata, Hiroaki ^a   Gupta, Mukund ^a   Vedula, Sri Ram Krishna ^a,e   Lim, Chwee Teck ^a,b   Ladoux, Benoit ^a,c   Sokabe, Masahiro ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e SAP Research Centre   (Singapore)

Author keywords

contractility; mechanotransduction; stress fiber; tensile force

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN II; UVOMORULIN;

3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SKIN FIBROBLAST; STRESS FIBER; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; FOCAL ADHESION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FOCAL ADHESIONS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MYOSIN TYPE II; NIH 3T3 CELLS; STRESS FIBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84961291935     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201439140     Document Type: Article

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