Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology

 

Selected recent publications

I. Schoen, B.L. Pruitt, V. Vogel, The Yin-Yang of Rigidity Sensing: How Forces and Mechanical Properties Regulate the Cellular Response to Materials, Annual Reviews of Materials Research, Volume 43, (2013), Review in Advance first posted online on March 1, 2013. (Changes may still occur before final publication online and in print.)

G. Yalak, V. Vogel, Extracellular Phosphorylation and Phosphorylated Proteins: Not Just Curiosities But Physiologically Important, Science Signaling, Vol. 5, Issue 255 (2012), p. re7

S. Hertig, V. Vogel, Catch Bonds, Current Biology 9 (2012) R823–R825.

V. Vogel, Soft Robotics: Bionic Jellyfish, Nature Materials, 11 (2012) 841-842.

J. Möller, T. Luehmann, H. Hall, V. Vogel, The race to the pole: how high-aspect ratio shape and heterogeneous environments limit phagocytosis of filamentous Escherichia coli bacteria by macrophages, Nanoletters, 12 (2012) 2901-2905.

W. Legant, C. Chen, V. Vogel, Force-induced fibronectin assembly and matrix remodeling in a 3D microtissue model of tissue morphogenesis, Integrative Biology, 4 (2012) 1164-1174 (cover).

O. Peleg, T. Savin, G. Kolmakov, I. Salib, A. Balazs, M. Kröger, and V. Vogel, Fibers with Integrated Mechanochemical Switches: Minimalistic Design Principles Derived from Fibronectin, Biophysical Journal, Volume 103, Issue 9 (2012), 1909-1918

B. Trappmann, J. E. Gautrot, J. T. Connelly, D. G. T. Strange, Y. Li, M. L. Oyen, M. A. Cohen Stuart, H. Boehm, B. Li, V. Vogel, J. P. Spatz, F. M. Watt, W. T. S. Huck, Extracellular matrix tethering regulates stem cell fate, Nature Materials, 11 (2012) 642.

M. Chabria, S. Hertig, M. Smith, V. Vogel, Stretching fibronectin fibers disrupts the binding of bacterial adhesins by physically destroying the epitope, Nature Communications, 1 (2010) 135-139.

C. Schmidt, V. Vogel, Molecular Shuttles Powered by Motor Proteins: Loading and Unloading Stations for NanoCargo Integrated Into One Device, Lab Chip 10 (2010) 2195-2198 (cover).

Le Trong I, Aprikian P, Kidd BA, Forero-Shelton M, Tchesnokova V, Rajagopal P, Rodriguez V, Interlandi G, Klevit R, Vogel V, Stenkamp RE, Sokurenko EV, Thomas WE, Structural basis for mechanical force regulation of the adhesin FimH via finger trap-like beta sheet twisting Cell 141 (2010) 645-55.

Kristopher E. Kubow, Enrico Klotzsch, Michael L. Smith, Delphine Gourdon, William C. Little, and Viola Vogel, Crosslinking of cell-derived 3D matrices up-regulates the stretching and unfolding of new ECM assembled by reseeded fibroblasts, Integrative Biology , 1 (2009) 635-48 (cover).

Viola Vogel, Michael P. Sheetz, Cell Fate Regulation by Coupling Mechanical Cycles to Biochemical Signaling Pathways, Current Opinion Cell Biology 21 (2009) 1-9.

Anita Goel, Viola Vogel, Harnessing Biological Motors to Engineer Systems for Nanoscale Transport and Assembly, Nature Nanotechnology, 3 (2008) 465-475

Vogel V, Sheetz MP. Local force and geometry sensing regulate cell functions. Nature Rev Mol Cell Biol, 7 (2006) 265-275.

Vogel V., Mechanotransduction involving multimodular proteins: converting force into biochemical signals. Ann. Rev. Biophys Biomol. Struct., 35, (2006) 459-488.

 

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