title: Mechanomics: an emerging field between biology and biomechanics.
abstract: Cells sense various in vivo mechanical stimuli, which initiate downstream signaling to mechanical forces. While a body of evidences is presented on the impact of limited mechanical regulators in past decades, the mechanisms how biomechanical responses globally affect cell function need to be addressed. Complexity and diversity of in vivo mechanical clues present distinct patterns of shear flow, tensile stretch, or mechanical compression with various parametric combination of its magnitude, duration, or frequency. Thus, it is required to understand, from the viewpoint of mechanobiology, what mechanical features of cells are, why mechanical properties are different among distinct cell types, and how forces are transduced to downstream biochemical signals. Meanwhile, those in vitro isolated mechanical stimuli are usually coupled together in vivo, suggesting that the different factors that are in effect individually could be canceled out or orchestrated with each other. Evidently, omics analysis, a powerful tool in the field of system biology, is advantageous to combine with mechanobiology and then to map the full-set of mechanically sensitive proteins and transcripts encoded by its genome. This new emerging field, namely mechanomics, makes it possible to elucidate the global responses under systematically-varied mechanical stimuli. This review discusses the current advances in the related fields of mechanomics and elaborates how cells sense external forces and activate the biological responses.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomechanics and Bioengineering and Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Jiawen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Dongyuan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Debin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Mian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Long
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D040542:Mechanotransduction, Cellular; D008954:Models, Biological; D020543:Proteome / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome
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