Fibronectin is a smart adhesive that both influences and responds to the mechanics of early spinal column development
Guillon E, Das D, Jülich D, Hassan AR, Geller H, Holley S. Fibronectin is a smart adhesive that both influences and responds to the mechanics of early spinal column development. ELife 2020, 9: e48964. PMID: 32228864, PMCID: PMC7108867, DOI: 10.7554/elife.48964.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeural tubeParaxial mesodermZebrafish neural tubeNormal vertebrate developmentVertebrate trunkVertebrate developmentFibronectin remodelingFibronectin matrixConvergence defectsMorphogenesisExtracellular matrixMesodermFibronectinColumn developmentSmart adhesivesCadherinMutantsAdhesive lap jointsAdhesionLap jointsSymmetric interfacesRemodelingShear stressDefectsOrganization of Embryonic Morphogenesis via Mechanical Information
Das D, Jülich D, Schwendinger-Schreck J, Guillon E, Lawton AK, Dray N, Emonet T, O'Hern CS, Shattuck MD, Holley SA. Organization of Embryonic Morphogenesis via Mechanical Information. Developmental Cell 2019, 49: 829-839.e5. PMID: 31178400, PMCID: PMC6590525, DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.05.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmbryonic organizerCell motionCell polarityTransgenic perturbationsEmbryonic morphogenesisMorphogen signalingTail organizerZebrafish embryosCell movementMechanical informationCell adhesionCell contractilityNeighboring cellsLocal biochemicalEmbryosMorphogenesisSecondary consequenceAdditional mechanismCellsMorphogensTranscriptionSignalingSystematic analysisOrganizersComputational modeling