@article{1ade40dc905c4a8c90546c961252ac06,
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.",
author = "Paluch, {Ewa K.} and Nelson, {Celeste M.} and Nicolas Biais and Ben Fabry and Jens Moeller and Pruitt, {Beth L.} and Carina Wollnik and Galina Kudryasheva and Florian Rehfeldt and Walter Federle",
note = "Funding Information: Ewa K Paluch EKP acknowledges the support of the Medical Research Council (core funding to the MRC LMCB) and thanks Irene Aspalter and Martin Bergert for critical comments. Celeste M Nelson This work was supported in part by grants from the NIH (GM083997, HL110335, HL118532 and HL120142), the NSF (CMMI-1435853), the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Nicolas Biais NB would like to acknowledge funding from the NIH (Grants SC2AI116566 and R01AI107966) and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Ben Fabry BF thanks Ingo Thievessen for critical comments. Beth L Pruitt and Jens Moeller This work was supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH) under grant 2R01EB006745-05 and the Health National Science Foundation (NSF) under the grants EFRI (MIKS-1136790) and NSEC CPN (NSEC PHY-0830228). Carina Wollnik, Galina Kudryasheva and Florian Rehfeldt FR gratefully acknowledges funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the collaborative research center SFB 755, project B8 and the Volkswagen Stiftung for funding within the Niedersachsen Israel framework (MWK-VWZN2722). Walter Federle WF would like to thank David Labonte for many helpful suggestions on the manuscript and Victor Small for kindly providing the images for Fig. 3g. Support by research grants from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/I008667/1) and the Human Frontier Science Programme (RGP0034/2012) is gratefully acknowledged. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Paluch et al.",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1186/s12915-015-0150-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
journal = "BMC Biology",
issn = "1741-7007",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
number = "1",
}