The regulation of cellular responses to mechanical cues by rho gtpases

Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Hoon, Jing Ling ^a   Tan, Mei Hua ^a   Koh, Cheng Gee ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Biophysical cues; Cell migration; Matrix stiffness; Mechanical cues; Proliferation and differentiation; Rho GTPases; Topography

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; COFILIN; CYCLIN D1; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; INTEGRIN; LIM KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MYOCARDIN; MYOSIN II; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; NEURAL WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN; PAXILLIN; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAC1 PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHO KINASE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TERNARY COMPLEX FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YAP1; VASODILATOR STIMULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN; VINCULIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOCAL ADHESION; HUMAN; LAMELLIPODIUM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRESS FIBER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 85117874270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cells5020017     Document Type: Review

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