ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2023
The Stiffness-Sensitive Transcriptome of Human Tendon Stromal Cells.
Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Leveraging mechanobiology: Identifying mechanotransducers with potential applications for tendon repair.The Journal of physiology · 2025Review
- Tendinopathy: The Interplay between Mechanical Stress, Inflammation, and Vascularity.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Exploring cellular changes in ruptured human quadriceps tendons at single-cell resolution.The Journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Biological tendon regeneration, are we almost there or is it still a stretch?Regenerative medicine · 2025Article
- Cellular mechanical memory: a potential tool for mesenchymal stem cell-based therapy.Stem cell research & therapy · 2025Review
- Achilles tendinopathy.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025Review
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- Transcriptome-Optimized Hydrogel Design of a Stem Cell Niche for Enhanced Tendon Regeneration.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Hierarchy Reproduction: Multiphasic Strategies for Tendon/Ligament-Bone Junction Repair.Biomaterials research · 2025Review
- Interfacial Tissue Regeneration with Bone.Current osteoporosis reports · 2024Review
- Cellular mechanosignaling for sensing and transducing matrix rigidity.Current opinion in cell biology · 2023Review
- The Stiffness-Sensitive Transcriptome of Human Tendon Stromal Cells.Advanced healthcare materials · 2023Article
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Abstract
Extracellular matrix stiffness is a major regulator of cellular states. Stiffness-sensing investigations are typically performed using cells that have acquired "mechanical memory" through prolonged conditioning in rigid environments, e.g., tissue culture plastic (TCP). This potentially masks the full extent of the matrix stiffness-driven mechanosensing programs. Here, a biomaterial composed of 2D mechanovariant silicone substrates with simplified and scalable surface biofunctionalization chemistry is developed to facilitate large-scale cell culture expansion processes. Using RNA sequencing, stiffness-mediated mechano-responses of human tendon-derived stromal cells are broadly mapped. Matrix elasticity (E.) approximating tendon microscale stiffness range (E. ≈ 35 kPa) distinctly favors transcriptional programs related to chromatin remodeling and Hippo signaling; whereas compliant stiffnesses (E. ≈ 2 kPa) are enriched in processes related to cell stemness, synapse assembly, and angiogenesis. While tendon stromal cells undergo dramatic phenotypic drift on conventional TCP, mechanovariant substrates abrogate this activation with tenogenic stiffnesses inducing a transcriptional program that strongly correlates with established tendon tissue-specific expression signature. Computational inference predicts that AKT1 and ERK1/2 are major stiffness-sensing signaling hubs. Together, these findings highlight how matrix biophysical cues may dictate the transcriptional identity of tendon cells, and how matrix mechano-reciprocity regulates diverse sets of previously underappreciated mechanosensitive processes in tendon fibroblasts.
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