Mechanical state transitions in the regulation of tissue form and function

Y Mao, SA Wickström - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
From embryonic development, postnatal growth and adult homeostasis to reparative and
disease states, cells and tissues undergo constant changes in genome activity, cell fate …

Adherens junctions as molecular regulators of emergent tissue mechanics

O Campàs, I Noordstra, AS Yap - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Tissue and organ development during embryogenesis relies on the collective and
coordinated action of many cells. Recent studies have revealed that tissue material …

E-cadherin tunes tissue mechanical behavior before and during morphogenetic tissue flows

X Wang, CM Cupo, S Ostvar, AD Countryman… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Adhesion between epithelial cells enables the remarkable mechanical behavior of epithelial
tissues during morphogenesis. However, it remains unclear how cell-cell adhesion …

Polarity-driven three-dimensional spontaneous rotation of a cell doublet

L Lu, T Guyomar, Q Vagne, R Berthoz… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Mechanical interactions between cells play a fundamental role in the self-organization of
organisms. How these interactions drive coordinated cell movement in three dimensions …

Influencing inter-cellular junctions with nanomaterials

J Wang, G Zhang, K ** Drosophila Germband Epithelium
C Cupo, C Allan, V Ailiani, KE Kasza - PRX Life, 2024 - APS
Epithelial cells generate functional tissues in develo** embryos through collective
movements and shape changes. In some morphogenetic events, a tissue dramatically …

Evo-Devo Mechanobiology: The Missing Link

EA Loffet, JF Durel, NL Nerurkar - Integrative and Comparative …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
While the modern framework of evolutionary development (evo-devo) has been decidedly
genetic, historic analyses have also considered the importance of mechanics in the …

An emerging role for tissue plasticity in developmental precision

SR Naganathan - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Reproducible tissue morphology is a fundamental feature of embryonic development. To
ensure such robustness during tissue morphogenesis, inherent noise in biological …

Generic theory of interacting, spinning, active polar particles: A model for cell aggregates

Q Vagne, G Salbreux - Physical Review E, 2025 - APS
We present a generic framework for describing interacting, spinning, active polar particles,
aimed at modeling dense cell aggregates, where cells are treated as polar, rotating objects …