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Vinculin is required for cell polarization, migration, and extracellular matrix remodeling in 3D collagen

Ingo Thievessen1, Nikta Fakhri2, Julian Steinwachs2

  • 1*Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics, Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Biophysics Group, Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; Physiology Course and Cellular Dynamics Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA; Third Physics Institute-Biophysics, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany; Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; California Life Company, South San Francisco, California, USA; **Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, USA; Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Biological Science, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA ithievessen@biomed.uni-erlangen.de.

FASEB Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
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Keywords:
3D cell migrationcell morphodynamicsintegrintraction force generation

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