sample of publications

• articles 

  • Mechanical and Functional Responses in Astrocytes under Alternating Deformation Modes Using Magneto-Active Substrates.  ADVANCED MATERIALS.  36:1-15. 2024
  • Peptide-Protein Coassemblies into Hierarchical and Bioactive Tubular Membranes.  BIOMACROMOLECULES.  24:4419-4429. 2023
  • Author Correction: Highly specific and non-invasive imaging of Piezo1-dependent activity across scales using GenEPi (Nature Communications, (2023), 14, 1, (4352), 10.1038/s41467-023-40134-y).  Nature Communications.  14:1. 2023
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells Sense the Toughness of Nanomaterials and Interfaces.  Advanced Healthcare Materials.  12:1-11. 2023
  • Retinoic acid receptor ß modulates mechanosensing and invasion in pancreatic cancer cells via myosin light chain 2.  Oncogenesis.  12:1-11. 2023
  • RGD density along with substrate stiffness regulate hPSC hepatocyte functionality through YAP signalling.  BIOMATERIALS.  293:1-17. 2023
  • Substrate Stiffness-Driven Membrane Tension Modulates Vesicular Trafficking via Caveolin-1.  ACS Nano.  16:4322-4337. 2022
  • Author Correction: The guidance receptor plexin D1 is a mechanosensor in endothelial cells (Nature, (2020), 578, 7794, (290-295), 10.1038/s41586-020-1979-4).  NATURE.  605:E6. 2022
  • Eukaryotic initiation factor 6 regulates mechanical responses in endothelial cells.  JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY.  221:1-18. 2022
  • Impact of the multiscale viscoelasticity of quasi-2D self-assembled protein networks on stem cell expansion at liquid interfaces.  BIOMATERIALS.  284:1-10. 2022
  • Self-assembling Polypeptide Hydrogels as a Platform to Recapitulate the Tumor Microenvironment.  Cancers.  13:1-25. 2021
  • G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor Regulates Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics to Impair Cell Polarization.  Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.  8:1-13. 2020
  • The Planar Polarity Component VANGL2 Is a Key Regulator of Mechanosignaling.  Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.  8:1-21. 2020
  • Syndecan-4 tunes cell mechanics by activating the kindlin-integrin-RhoA pathway.  NATURE MATERIALS.  19:669-678. 2020
  • The guidance receptor plexin D1 is a mechanosensor in endothelial cells.  NATURE.  578:290-295. 2020
  • GPER activation inhibits cancer cell mechanotransduction and basement membrane invasion via RhoA.  Cancers.  12:1-24. 2020
  • Interfacial Self-Assembly to Spatially Organize Graphene Oxide Into Hierarchical and Bioactive Structures.  Frontiers in Materials.  7:1-13. 2020
  • Chemically Functionalised Graphene FET Biosensor for the Label-free Sensing of Exosomes.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-10. 2019
  • Author Correction: SREBP1 drives keratin-80-dependent cytoskeletal changes and invasive behavior in endocrine-resistant ERalfa breast cancer (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (2115), 10.1038/s41467-019-09676-y).  Nature Communications.  10:1. 2019
  • Matrix stiffness modulates the activity of MMP-9 and TIMP-1 in hepatic stellate cells to perpetuate fibrosis.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-9. 2019
  • Engineering the cellular mechanical microenvironment - from bulk mechanics to the nanoscale.  JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE.  132:1-14. 2019
  • GPER is a mechanoregulator of pancreatic stellate cells and the tumor microenvironment.  EMBO REPORTS.  20:1-15. 2019
  • Retinoic Acid Receptor-ß Is Downregulated in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cirrhosis and Its Expression Inhibits Myosin-Driven Activation and Durotaxis in Hepatic Stellate Cells.  HEPATOLOGY.  69:785-802. 2019
  • SREBP1 drives Keratin-80-dependent cytoskeletal changes and invasive behavior in endocrine-resistant ER¿ breast cancer.  Nature Communications.  10. 2019
  • Tamoxifen mechanically deactivates hepatic stellate cells via the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor.  ONCOGENE.  38:2910-2922. 2019
  • Tamoxifen mechanically reprograms the tumor microenvironment via HIF-1A and reduces cancer cell survival.  EMBO REPORTS.  20. 2019
  • The Mutational Landscape of Pancreatic and Liver Cancers, as Represented by Circulating Tumor DNA.  Frontiers in Oncology.  9. 2019
  • Where No Hand Has Gone Before: Probing Mechanobiology at the Cellular Level.  ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering.  5:3703-3719. 2019
  • The emergence of solid stress as a potent biomechanical marker of tumour progression.  Emerging topics in life sciences.  2:739-749. 2018
  • Liquid biopsies for management of pancreatic cancer.  Translational Research.  201:98-127. 2018
  • Protein disorder-order interplay to guide the growth of hierarchical mineralized structures.  Nature Communications.  9:1-12. 2018
  • Cost-effective rapid prototyping and assembly of poly(methyl methacrylate) microfluidic devices.  Scientific Reports.  8. 2018
  • Cell-geometry-dependent changes in plasma membrane order direct stem cell signalling and fate.  NATURE MATERIALS.  17:237-242. 2018
  • FAK controls the mechanical activation of YAP, a transcriptional regulator required for durotaxis.  FASEB JOURNAL.  32:1099-1107. 2018
  • Mechanical unfolding reveals stable 3-helix intermediates in talin and ¿-catenin.  PLoS Computational Biology.  14. 2018
  • Mechanotransduction in talin through the interaction of the R8 domain with DLC1.  PLOS BIOLOGY.  16. 2018
  • Role of extracellular matrix in development and cancer progression.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES.  19. 2018
  • Cross-linking of a biopolymer-peptide co-assembling system.  Acta Biomaterialia.  58:80-89. 2017
  • Matrix stiffness induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition and promotes chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer cells.  Oncogenesis.  6. 2017
  • Rapid production of human liver scaffolds for functional tissue engineering by high shear stress oscillation-decellularization.  Scientific Reports.  7. 2017
  • Substrate Rigidity Controls Activation and Durotaxis in Pancreatic Stellate Cells.  Scientific Reports.  7. 2017
  • ATRA mechanically reprograms pancreatic stellate cells to suppress matrix remodelling and inhibit cancer cell invasion.  Nature Communications.  7. 2016
  • ATRA modulates mechanical activation of TGF-ß by pancreatic stellate cells.  Scientific Reports.  6. 2016
  • Adhesive ligand tether length affects the size and length of focal adhesions and influences cell spreading and attachment.  Scientific Reports.  6. 2016
  • All Subdomains of the Talin Rod Are Mechanically Vulnerable and May Contribute to Cellular Mechanosensing.  ACS Nano.  10:6648-6658. 2016
  • Development of a synthetic gene network to modulate gene expression by mechanical forces.  Scientific Reports.  6. 2016
  • Talin: A mechanosensitive molecule in health and disease.  FASEB JOURNAL.  30:2073-2085. 2016
  • Integrin-dependent force transmission to the extracellular matrix by ¿-actinin triggers adhesion maturation.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  110:E1361-E1370. 2013
  • Clustering of ¿5ß1 integrins determines adhesion strength whereas ¿vß3 and talin enable mechanotransduction.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  106:16245-16250. 2009
  • Stretching single talin rod molecules activates vinculin binding.  SCIENCE.  323:638-641. 2009