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ReviewJournal of cell science2025

Feeling the force from within - new tools and insights into nuclear mechanotransduction.

Julien Morival, Anna Hazelwood, Jan Lammerding

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Review in Journal of cell science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Beyond DNA damage: 3D tumor models and the integrin mechanobiology of radioresistance.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026
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  18. How the chromatin landscape influences nuclear morphology.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Julien MorivalWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1252-025X
Anna HazelwoodWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Jan LammerdingWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4335-8611

Funding

Nuclear mechanics and mechanotransduction in muscular laminopathiesR01HL082792 · NHLBI · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI LAMMERDING, JAN · 2007 to 2023
$4.8M
Defining nuclear mechanisms for ultrarapid mechanically induced gene expressionR01AR084664 · NIAMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN T LIS, Jan Lammerding · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
Nuclear mechanobiology in confined migration (equipment supplement 2026)R35GM153257 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI Jan Lammerding · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
American Heart Association 23POST1023021Cornell UniversityLeducq Foundation 20CVD01National Science Foundation URoL-2022048NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL082792NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR084664NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153257NIH HHS R01 HL082792Volkswagen Foundation A130142
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability of cells to sense and respond to mechanical signals is essential for many biological processes that form the basis of cell identity, tissue development and maintenance. This process, known as mechanotransduction, involves crucial feedback between mechanical force and biochemical signals, including epigenomic modifications that establish transcriptional programs. These programs, in turn, reinforce the mechanical properties of the cell and its ability to withstand mechanical perturbation. The nucleus has long been hypothesized to play a key role in mechanotransduction due to its direct exposure to forces transmitted through the cytoskeleton, its role in receiving cytoplasmic signals and its central function in gene regulation. However, parsing out the specific contributions of the nucleus from those of the cell surface and cytoplasm in mechanotransduction remains a substantial challenge. In this Review, we examine the latest evidence on how the nucleus regulates mechanotransduction, both via the nuclear envelope (NE) and through epigenetic and transcriptional machinery elements within the nuclear interior. We also explore the role of nuclear mechanotransduction in establishing a mechanical memory, characterized by a mechanical, epigenetic and transcriptomic cell state that persists after mechanical stimuli cease. Finally, we discuss current challenges in the field of nuclear mechanotransduction and present technological advances that are poised to overcome them.

Indexed as

Cell NucleusMechanotransduction, CellularAnimalsCytoskeletonEpigenesis, GeneticHumansNuclear EnvelopeChromatinEpigeneticsForceLaminsMechanicsMechanobiologyMechanotransductionNucleusTranscription

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PMID40059756
PMCPMC11959624

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