ReviewFrontiers in plant science2014
Mechanosensitive channels: feeling tension in a world under pressure.
Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Are cyclic plant and animal behaviours driven by gravimetric mechanical forces?Journal of experimental botany · 2022Pooled it
- Calcium waves and nuclear tension changes coordinate mechanical stress dissipation in locally folded epithelia.iScience · 2026Article
- Magnetic nanoparticle formulations to activate TREK and Piezo mechanosensitive ion channels (MICA) for enhanced osteogenesis.Regenerative biomaterials · 2026Article
- Mechanosensitive ion channel MSL8 is required for oscillatory growth and cell wall dynamics in Arabidopsis pollen tubes.Plant reproduction · 2025Article
- Cell Membrane Tension Gradients, Membrane Flows, and Cellular Processes.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
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- Ex Vivo Analysis of Mechanically Activated Ca2+ Transients in Urothelial Cells.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2022Article
- The Power of Touch: Type 4 Pili, the von Willebrand A Domain, and Surface Sensing by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Review
- CamelliA-based simultaneous imaging of Ca2+ dynamics in subcellular compartments.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- Materials science and mechanosensitivity of living matter.Applied physics reviews · 2022Review
- Plant Salinity Sensors: Current Understanding and Future Directions.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Calcium channels and transporters: Roles in response to biotic and abiotic stresses.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Dependence of Protein Structure on Environment: FOD Model Applied to Membrane Proteins.Membranes · 2021Article
- MCAs in Arabidopsis are CaNature communications · 2021Article
- A novel mechanosensitive channel controls osmoregulation, differentiation, and infectivity ineLife · 2021Article
- Application of naturally occurring mechanical forces inPlant signaling & behavior · 2021Review
- Cellular transduction of mechanical oscillations in plants by the plasma-membrane mechanosensitive channel MSL10.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The Optimal Lipid Chain Length of a Membrane-Permeabilizing Lipopeptide Results From the Balance of Membrane Partitioning and Local Damage.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Exploring the diversity of mechanosensitive channels in bacterial genomes.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2021Article
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Abstract
Plants, like other organisms, are facing multiple mechanical constraints generated both in their tissues and by the surrounding environments. They need to sense and adapt to these forces throughout their lifetimes. To do so, different mechanisms devoted to force transduction have emerged. Here we focus on fascinating proteins: the mechanosensitive (MS) channels. Mechanosensing in plants has been described for centuries but the molecular identification of MS channels occurred only recently. This review is aimed at plant biologists and plant biomechanists who want to be introduced to MS channel identity, how they work and what they might do in planta? In this review, electrophysiological properties, regulations, and functions of well-characterized MS channels belonging to bacteria and animals are compared with those of plants. Common and specific properties are discussed. We deduce which tools and concepts from animal and bacterial fields could be helpful for improving our understanding of plant mechanotransduction. MS channels embedded in their plasma membrane are sandwiched between the cell wall and the cytoskeleton. The consequences of this peculiar situation are analyzed and discussed. We also stress how important it is to probe mechanical forces at cellular and subcellular levels in planta in order to reveal the intimate relationship linking the membrane with MS channel activity. Finally we will propose new tracks to help to reveal their physiological functions at tissue and plant levels.
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