Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34708856›Full record

ArticleJournal of cell science2021

Talin in mechanotransduction and mechanomemory at a glance.

Benjamin T Goult, Nicholas H Brown, Martin A Schwartz

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of cell science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

54 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. An Opto-Actuated Hydrogel for Cell Mechanoactuation and Real-Time Force Monitoring.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. The mechanical response of vinculin.Science advances · 2025
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Phagocytosis by the retinal pigment epithelium: New insights into polarized cell mechanics.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
    Review
  19. Article
  20. Article
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

3 authors.

Benjamin T GoultSchool of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, UK.
Nicholas H BrownDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing St., Cambridge CB2 1DY, UK.
Martin A SchwartzYale Cardiovascular Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.

Funding

The Rho Family GTPases in Integrin SignalingR01GM047214 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SCHWARTZ, MARTIN A · 1991 to 2020
$6.3M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S007245/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S007318/1NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM047214NIH HHS R01 GM47214
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Talins are cytoskeletal linker proteins that consist of an N-terminal head domain, a flexible neck region and a C-terminal rod domain made of 13 helical bundles. The head domain binds integrin β-subunit cytoplasmic tails, which triggers integrin conformational activation to increase affinity for extracellular matrix proteins. The rod domain links to actin filaments inside the cell to transmit mechanical loads and serves as a mechanosensitive signalling hub for the recruitment of many other proteins. The α-helical bundles function as force-dependent switches - proteins that interact with folded bundles are displaced when force induces unfolding, exposing previously cryptic binding sites for other ligands. This leads to the notion of a talin code. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and the accompanying poster, we propose that the multiple switches within the talin rod function to process and store time- and force-dependent mechanical and chemical information.

Indexed as

Mechanotransduction, CellularTalinBinding SitesIntegrinsProtein BindingSignal TransductionIntegrinsTalinIntegrinMechanobiologyMechanomemoryMechanotransductionMemoryMeshCODETalinTLN1TLN2

Identifiers

PMID34708856
PMCPMC8697387

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.