title: Cell-matrix adhesion: slip and immobilization under force.
abstract: When force is applied to cell-matrix adhesion complexes, they respond by growing larger and stronger. It emerges that strengthening involves transient motion of the transmembrane integrin receptors and their eventual immobilization to the extracellular matrix.
authors: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland. alexander.verkhovsky@epfl.ch
authors: Alexander B
authors: AB
authors: Verkhovsky
mesh_terms: D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000502:physiology*; D002460:Cell Line; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000502:physiology*; D022001:Focal Adhesions; D006801:Humans; D016023:Integrins / Q000502:physiology; D024462:Myosin Type II / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D016023:Integrins; D024462:Myosin Type II