Cytoskeleton

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Protrusion-retraction switches and traction forces in spontaneous cell polarization

Cell migration is a fundamental property of all animal cells which is involved in processes such as embryogenesis, immune response, tissue regeneration and cancer metastasis. Directional migration requires cell polarization which could happen in response t ...

EPFL2016

Endogenous Regulators of Gamma-Secretase and Amyloid-Beta Production, and Engineering of Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutic Tools

Sébastien Mosser

Alzheimer s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by strong cognitive impairment and memory loss. These symptoms are caused by neuronal death, induced by two pathological hallmarks: extracellular senile plaques composed of a ...

EPFL2016

Cellular forces and matrix assembly coordinate fibrous tissue repair

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Daniel Eberli

Planar in vitro models have been invaluable tools to identify the mechanical basis of wound closure. Although these models may recapitulate closure dynamics of epithelial cell sheets, they fail to capture how a wounded fibrous tissue rebuilds its 3D archit ...

2016

Computer vision profiling of neurite outgrowth dynamics reveals spatio-temporal modularity of Rho GTPase signaling

Pascal Fua, François Fleuret, Kevin Smith, Germán González Serrano

Rho guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) control the cytoskeletal dynamics that power neurite outgrowth. This process consists of dynamic neurite initiation, elongation, retraction, and branching cycles that are likely to be regulated by specific spatiotemp ...

Rockefeller University Press2016

Supramolecular Polymers in Aqueous Media

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings

This review discusses one-dimensional supramolecular polymers that form in aqueous media. First, naturally occurring supramolecular polymers are described, in particular, amyloid fibrils, actin filaments, and microtubules. Their structural, thermodynamic, ...

American Chemical Society2016

Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont

Bruno Lemaitre, Graham Knott, Catherine Maclachlan, Elodie Julie Virginie Ramond

Spiroplasma bacteria are highly motile bacteria with no cell wall and a helical morphology. This clade includes many vertically transmitted insect endosymbionts, including Spiroplasma poulsonii, a natural endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster. S. poulson ...

American Society for Microbiology2016

A Spatiotemporal Characterization Method for the Dynamic Cytoskeleton

Jeremy Teo

The significant gap between quantitative and qualitative understanding of cytoskeletal function is a pressing problem; microscopy and labeling techniques have improved qualitative investigations of localized cytoskeleton behavior, whereas quantitative anal ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Fluorogenic Probes for Multicolor Imaging in Living Cells

Kai Johnsson, Luc Reymond, Grazvydas Lukinavicius, Olivier Vincent Sallin, Keitaro Umezawa

Here we present a far-red, silicon-rhodamine-based fluorophore (SiR700) for live-cell multicolor imaging. SiR700 has excitation and emission maxima at 690 nm and 715 nm, respectively. SiR700-based probes for F-actin, microtubules, lysosomes and SNAP-tag ar ...

American Chemical Society2016

Mechanical properties of peripheral stress fibers in adherent cells spreading on patterned substrates

Céline Jeanne Labouesse

Many cellular processes require or depend on mechanical feedback from the cell's micro-environment. For example, the local organization of the actin cytoskeleton is known to adapt to the physical properties of the extracellular matrix. To gain better under ...

EPFL2015

Spontaneous Cdc42 Polarization Independent of GDI-Mediated Extraction and Actin-Based Trafficking

Horst Vogel, Romain Wyss

The small Rho-family GTPase Cdc42 is critical for cell polarization and polarizes spontaneously in absence of upstream spatial cues. Spontaneous polarization is thought to require dynamic Cdc42 recycling through Guanine nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitor (G ...

Public Library Science2015

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