Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22196929›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in cell biology2012

The structure of cell-matrix adhesions: the new frontier.

Dorit Hanein, Alan Rick Horwitz

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Review in Current opinion in cell biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The role and regulation of integrins in cell migration and invasion.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  6. Mechanoepigenetics.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2016
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  13. On a poroviscoelastic model for cell crawling.Journal of mathematical biology · 2015
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  20. Remodeling of calcium signaling in tumor progression.Journal of biomedical science · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dorit HaneinBioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States. dorit@sanfordburnham.org
Alan Rick Horwitz
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · USUniversity of Virginia · US

Funding

STRUCTUREU54GM064346 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI IMPERIALI, BARBARA · 2001 to 2010
$74.9M
Ultrastructural Basis of Mechanotransduction in Matrix AdhesionsP01GM098412 · NIGMS · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI GROISMAN, ALEX · 2011 to 2015
$8.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM098412NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM064346
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adhesions between the cell and the extracellular matrix (ECM) are mechanosensitive multi-protein assemblies that transmit force across the cell membrane and regulate biochemical signals in response to the chemical and mechanical environment. These combined functions in force transduction, signaling and mechanosensing contribute to cellular phenotypes that span development, homeostasis and disease. These adhesions form, mature and disassemble in response to actin organization and physical forces that originate from endogenous myosin activity or external forces by the extracellular matrix. Despite advances in our understanding of the protein composition, interactions and regulation, our understanding of matrix adhesion structure and organization, how forces affect this organization, and how these changes dictate specific signaling events is limited. Insights across multiple structural levels are acutely needed to elucidate adhesion structure and ultimately the molecular basis of signaling and mechanotransduction. Here we describe the challenges and recent advances and prospects for unraveling the structure of cell-matrix adhesions and their response to force.

Indexed as

ActinsAnimalsCell CommunicationCell-Matrix JunctionsExtracellular MatrixHumansMechanotransduction, CellularMicroscopy, ElectronMultiprotein ComplexesSignal TransductionTomographyActinsMultiprotein Complexes

Identifiers

PMID22196929
PMCPMC3294145
OpenAlexW2042796625

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Registered trials

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