Overall, these results recast Piezo1 mechanotransduction from isolated-channel force sensing to a membrane-driven self-organization process that spatially biases force-dependent calcium signaling within cells.
A unified mechanobiological framework describing how frequency-dependent remodeling of the ventral cytoskeleton regulates Piezo1 activity in mesenchymal-like cancer cells is presented, demonstrating that the response to oscillatory mechanical stimulation depends on the interplay between loading parameters and the dynam...
Ivana Pajić-Lijaković, M. Milivojević, B. Martinac et al.· Biophysical Reviews· 1 citation
A multiscale framework that spans from molecular mechanisms to organ-level physiology and focuses on the directly mechanosensitive Piezo1/2 channels and the mechano-responsive TRPV4 channel is developed, drawing on their distinct molecular architectures to ground divergent gating properties.
Xuan Fan, Ming-Wei Shi, Zhen Wang et al.· Frontiers in Cell and Develo...· 0 citations
Three cryo-EM structures of EcMscL in two different lipid environments and two distinct conformational states are solved; closed and open-like, guided by EPR.
Katie Hardman, Joshua L. Wort, Qaiser Waheed et al.· Nature Communications· 1 citation
This review discusses the close interplay among ECM mechanics, mechanosensitive ion channels, and cell remodeling behaviors, with particular emphasis on ion channels as mechanochemical control nodes that connect material-defined mechanical cues to cytoskeletal tension, adhesion dynamics, and transcriptional reprogrammi...
Zhanshuo Cao, Bo-Ying Li, Liang Qiu et al.· ACS Applied Materials and In...· 0 citations
This review surveys major classes of tunable platforms used to study cytoskeletal dynamics, including biologically derived matrices, synthetic hydrogels, micropatterned and nanotopographic substrates, and polymeric thin films, highlighting how each approach affords unique insight into cytoskeletal regulation.