Cell locomotion and focal adhesions are regulated by substrate flexibility

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Mechanotransduction Across the Cell Surface and Through the Cytoskeleton

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Science

Force and focal adhesion assembly: a close relationship studied using elastic micropatterned substrates

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Nature Cell Biology

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Extracellular Matrix Rigidity Causes Strengthening of Integrin–Cytoskeleton Linkages

Daniel Choquet, Dan P. Felsenfeld, Michael P. Sheetz

Cell

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Substrate flexibility regulates growth and apoptosis of normal but not transformed cells

Hong-Bei Wang, Micah Dembo, Yu‐li Wang

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology

Rapid signal transduction in living cells is a unique feature of mechanotransduction

Sungsoo Na, Olivier Collin, Farhan Chowdhury, +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Regulation of protrusion, adhesion dynamics, and polarity by myosins IIA and IIB in migrating cells

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The Journal of Cell Biology

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TRPM7, a novel regulator of actomyosin contractility and cell adhesion

Kristopher Clark, Michiel Langeslag, Bart van Leeuwen, +6

The EMBO Journal

Focal Adhesion Motility Revealed in Stationary Fibroblasts

Lubomir B. Smilenov, Alexei Mikhailov, Robert J. Pelham, +2

Science

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Intracellular stress tomography reveals stress focusing and structural anisotropy in cytoskeleton of living cells

Shaohua Hu, Jianxin Chen, Ben Fabry, +6

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology

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