Integrins traffic rapidly via circular dorsal ruffles and macropinocytosis during stimulated cell migration

Zhizhan Gu, Erika H. Noss, Victor W. Hsu, +1

The Journal of Cell Biology

Confinement Sensing and Signal Optimization via Piezo1/PKA and Myosin II Pathways

Wei-Chien Hung, Jessica R. Yang, Christopher L. Yankaskas, +10

Cell Reports

Dystrophin is a tumor suppressor in human cancers with myogenic programs

Yuexiang Wang, Adrián Mariño‐Enríquez, Richard Rodney Bennett, +17

Nature Genetics

Tumor BiologyMyogenic ProgramsMedicinePathologyTumor Suppressor +5

Cadherin-11 regulates fibroblast inflammation

Sook Kyung Chang, Erika H. Noss, Mei Chen, +7

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

ImmunologyImmune RegulationPathologyJoint SwellingInflammatory Arthritis +19

Aquaporin 2 Promotes Cell Migration and Epithelial Morphogenesis

Ying Chen, William L. Rice, Zhizhan Gu, +11

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Integrin β1Renal InflammationWater HomeostasisCellular PhysiologyWater Channel +21

Soft matrix is a natural stimulator for cellular invasiveness

Zhizhan Gu, Fei Liu, Elina A. Tonkova, +3

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Erk1/2 MAPK and caldesmon differentially regulate podosome dynamics in A7r5 vascular smooth muscle cells

Zhizhan Gu, Jolanta Kordowska, Geoffrey Williams, +2

Experimental Cell Research

Regulate Podosome DynamicsSignal TransductionMolecular PhysiologySignaling PathwayMedicine +10

E3 ligase MKRN3 is a tumor suppressor regulating PABPC1 ubiquitination in non–small cell lung cancer

Ke Li, Xufen Zheng, Hua Tang, +24

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Cytokinesis machinery promotes cell dissociation from collectively migrating strands in confinement

Robert A. Law, Alexander Kiepas, Habben E. Desta, +11

Science Advances

Cells TuneCell AdhesionCytoskeletonCancer MetastasisCellular Physiology +17

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mediates nicotine-induced actin cytoskeletal remodeling and extracellular matrix degradation by vascular smooth muscle cells

Zhizhan Gu, Vera C. Fonseca, Chi-Ming Hai

Vascular Pharmacology

MechanobiologyCell PhysiologyMedicineNicotinePhysiology +9