title: Mechanotransduction: use the force(s).
abstract: Mechanotransduction - how cells sense physical forces and translate them into biochemical and biological responses - is a vibrant and rapidly-progressing field, and is important for a broad range of biological phenomena. This forum explores the role of mechanotransduction in a variety of cellular activities and highlights intriguing questions that deserve further attention.
authors.affiliation: MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. e.paluch@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ewa K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Paluch
authors.affiliation: Chemical & Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 303 Hoyt Laboratory, William Street, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Celeste M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2900 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Biais
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Henkestrasse 91, 91052, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fabry
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Microsystems Laboratory, Stanford University, 496 Lomita Mall, Durand Building Rm 102, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moeller
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Microsystems Laboratory, Stanford University, by courtesy, 496 Lomita Mall, Durand Building Rm 213, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Beth L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Pruitt
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-University, 3rd Institute of Physics - Biophysics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wollnik
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-University, 3rd Institute of Physics - Biophysics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Galina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kudryasheva
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-University, 3rd Institute of Physics - Biophysics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rehfeldt
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Federle
mesh_terms: D000205:Actomyosin / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D022001:Focal Adhesions / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008124:Locomotion; D040542:Mechanotransduction, Cellular; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D022502:Stress Fibers / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000205:Actomyosin