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ArticleBiophysical journal2015

The cytoskeleton regulates cell attachment strength.

Alexander Fuhrmann, Adam J Engler

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexander FuhrmannDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Adam J EnglerDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: aengler@ucsd.edu.
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

TRANS_NETWORK PROJECTSU54CA143803 · NCI · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI AUSTIN, ROBERT H. · 2009 to 2013
$14.2M
"Smart" Materials to Engineer a More Complete Stem Cell NicheDP2OD006460 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ENGLER, ADAM J · 2009 to 2009
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143803NCI NIH HHS U54CA143803NIH HHS DP2 OD006460NIH HHS DP2OD006460
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative information about adhesion strength is a fundamental part of our understanding of cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions. Adhesion assays should measure integrin-ECM bond strength, but reports now suggest that cell components remain behind after exposure to acute force for radial shear assays in the presence of divalent cations that increase integrin-ECM affinity. Here, we show that focal adhesion proteins FAK, paxillin, and vinculin but not the cytoskeletal protein actin remain behind after shear-induced detachment of HT1080 fibrosarcoma cells. Cytoskeletal stabilization increased attachment strength by eightfold, whereas cross-linking integrins to the substrate only caused a 1.5-fold increase. Reducing temperature-only during shear application-also increased attachment strength eightfold, with detachment again occurring between focal adhesion proteins and actin. Detachment at the focal adhesion-cytoskeleton interface was also observed in mouse and human fibroblasts and was ligand-independent, highlighting the ubiquity of this mode of detachment in the presence of divalent cations. These data show that the cytoskeleton and its dynamic coupling to focal adhesions are critically important for cell adhesion in niche with divalent cations.

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AnimalsCell AdhesionCell Line, TumorCollagen Type ICytoskeletonFibroblastsFibronectinsFocal AdhesionsHumansMiceNIH 3T3 CellsSpecies SpecificityTemperatureCollagen Type IFibronectins

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PMID26153702
PMCPMC4572469
OpenAlexW1929515809

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