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ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2020

The pulse of morphogenesis: actomyosin dynamics and regulation in epithelia.

Hui Miao, J Todd Blankenship

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. PES-8 is required for Cytoskeletal Organization and Contractility in thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. An active matter model captures spatial dynamics of actomyosin oscillations in larval epithelial cells duringProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. Shape, Strain, and Stability: Epithelia Under High Strain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  6. An analysis of contractile and protrusive cell behaviors at the superficial surface of the zebrafish neural plate.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025
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  10. KLF5 Shapes Developing Respiratory Tubules by Inhibiting Actin Asymmetry in Epithelial Cells.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025
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  19. Recoil Measurements inBio-protocol · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hui MiaoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA.
J Todd BlankenshipDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA todd.blankenship@du.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8687-9527

Funding

Sliding vertex behaviors during epithelial morphogenesis and tissue elongationR01GM127447 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY) · PI BLANKENSHIP, JAMES TODD, LOERKE, DINAH · 2018 to 2021
$1.2M
Mechanisms of membrane ratcheting during cell intercalationR15GM126422 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY) · PI BLANKENSHIP, JAMES TODD · 2017 to 2017
$440k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127447NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM126422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Actomyosin networks are some of the most crucial force-generating components present in developing tissues. The contractile forces generated by these networks are harnessed during morphogenesis to drive various cell and tissue reshaping events. Recent studies of these processes have advanced rapidly, providing us with insights into how these networks are initiated, positioned and regulated, and how they act via individual contractile pulses and/or the formation of supracellular cables. Here, we review these studies and discuss the mechanisms that underlie the construction and turnover of such networks and structures. Furthermore, we provide an overview of how ratcheted processivity emerges from pulsed events, and how tissue-level mechanics are the coordinated output of many individual cellular behaviors.

Indexed as

Actin CytoskeletonActomyosinAnimalsEpitheliumHumansMorphogenesisActomyosinActinMorphogenesisMyosinPulsatilityRatcheting

Identifiers

PMID32878903
PMCPMC7490518

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