ReviewTrends in cell biology2013
Use the force: membrane tension as an organizer of cell shape and motility.
Review in Trends in cell biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 273 papers.
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273 citing papers in PubMed, 578 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mechanotransduction by nuclear envelope tension.Nucleus (Austin, Tex.) · 2026Review
- Controlling membrane tension by dynamic DNA nanorings.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Chromatin decompaction within the nucleus increases plasma membrane tension promoting NETosis execution, independently of transcription.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Protein coacervation-driven active forces power protocell dynamics.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Membrane Tension Integrates Physical and Signaling Cues to Gate Cell Fate Transitions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Class-I myosin responds to changes in membrane tension during clathrin-mediated endocytosis in human induced pluripotent stem cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Cellular plasticity: a double-edged sword driving malignant transformation and adaptive remodeling in stem cells.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Growth-rate analysis of clathrin assembly: inferring endocytic kinetics in living cells and tissues.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026Review
- Optimizing a coarse-grained model for large-scale membrane protein simulation.Biophysical reports · 2025Article
- PIP5K-Ras bistability triggers plasma membrane symmetry breaking to define cellular polarity and regulate migration.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Adherent cells sustain membrane tension gradients independently of migration.Nature communications · 2025Article
- On the physiological processes underlying optoretinography [Invited].Biomedical optics express · 2025Review
- Non-uniform impact of extracellular osmotic variations at subcellular level.Cell death discovery · 2025Article
- Follicular sphericity based on three-dimensional transvaginal ultrasound algorithms predicts ovarian responsiveness to in vitro fertilization.Journal of ovarian research · 2025Observational
- Signaling and actin waves at a glance.Journal of cell science · 2025Review
- Mechanical regulation of extracellular vesicle activity during tumour progression.Nature biomedical engineering · 2025Review
- Extracellular Vesicles in cancer: from isolation and characterization to metastasis, drug resistance, and clinical applications.BMC cancer · 2025Review
- Elasticity-Driven Nanomechanical Interaction to Improve the Targeting Ability of Lipid Nanoparticles in the Malignant Tumor Microenvironment.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Unjamming Transition as a Paradigm for Biomechanical Control of Cancer Metastasis.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Many cell phenomena that involve shape changes are affected by the intrinsic deformability of the plasma membrane (PM). Far from being a passive participant, the PM is now known to physically, as well as biochemically, influence cell processes ranging from vesicle trafficking to actin assembly. Here we review current understanding of how changes in PM tension regulate cell shape and movement, as well as how cells sense PM tension.
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