Cellular mechanosignaling for sensing and transducing matrix rigidity

KM Young, CA Reinhart-King - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanisms by which cells sense their mechanical environment and transduce the
signal through focal adhesions and signaling pathways to the nucleus is an area of key …

Physiological and pathological roles of caveolins in the central nervous system

J Badaut, C Blochet, A Obenaus, L Hirt - Trends in neurosciences, 2024 - cell.com
Caveolins are a family of transmembrane proteins located in caveolae, small lipid raft
invaginations of the plasma membrane. The roles of caveolin-enriched lipid rafts are …

A mechanosensitive caveolae–invadosome interplay drives matrix remodelling for cancer cell invasion

P Monteiro, D Remy, E Lemerle, F Routet, AS Macé… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Invadosomes and caveolae are mechanosensitive structures that are implicated in
metastasis. Here, we describe a unique juxtaposition of caveola clusters and matrix …

Early proteostasis of caveolins synchronizes trafficking, degradation, and oligomerization to prevent toxic aggregation

F Morales-Paytuví, A Fajardo, C Ruiz-Mirapeix… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - rupress.org
Caveolin-1 (CAV1) and CAV3 are membrane-sculpting proteins driving the formation of the
plasma membrane (PM) caveolae. Within the PM mosaic environment, caveola assembly is …

Caveolae mechanotransduction at the interface between cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix

L Sotodosos-Alonso, M Pulgarín-Alfaro, MA Del Pozo - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The plasma membrane (PM) is subjected to multiple mechanical forces, and it must adapt
and respond to them. PM invaginations named caveolae, with a specific protein and lipid …

Mechanotransduction through membrane tension: It's all about propagation?

A Ghisleni, NC Gauthier - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past 25 years, membrane tension has emerged as a primary mechanical factor
influencing cell behavior. Although supporting evidences are accumulating, the integration …

Caveolin-1 in endothelial cells: A potential therapeutic target for atherosclerosis

Y Shu, S ** - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Atherosclerosis (AS) is a chronic vascular disease characterized by lipid accumulation and
the activation of the inflammatory response; it remains the leading nation-wide cause of …

Shape-dependent cellular uptake of iron oxide nanorods: mechanisms of endocytosis and implications on cell labeling and cellular delivery

AM Thamizhchelvan, H Ma, T Wu, D Nguyen… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The effects of nanoparticle morphology, especially size and shape, on their interactions with
cells are of great interest in understanding the fate of nanoparticles in biological systems …

The role of membrane lipids in the formation and function of caveolae

AK Kenworthy, B Han, N Ariotti… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Caveolae are plasma membrane invaginations with a distinct lipid composition. Membrane
lipids cooperate with the structural components of caveolae to generate a metastable …

Single-Cell Mechanics: Structural Determinants and Functional Relevance

M Urbanska, J Guck - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The mechanical phenotype of a cell determines its ability to deform under force and is
therefore relevant to cellular functions that require changes in cell shape, such as migration …