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List of works by Benoit Ladoux

A subtle relationship between substrate stiffness and collective migration of cell clusters

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Actomyosin bundles serve as a tension sensor and a platform for ERK activation.

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Adaptive rheology and ordering of cell cytoskeleton govern matrix rigidity sensing

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Adhesion-mediated heterogeneous actin organization governs apoptotic cell extrusion

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Adhesive interactions of N-cadherin limit the recruitment of microtubules to cell-cell contacts through organization of actomyosin

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

An array of microfabricated pillars to study cell migration

scientific article published in August 2005

Biological Tissues as Active Nematic Liquid Crystals

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Celebrating Soft Matter's 10th Anniversary: Cell division: a source of active stress in cellular monolayers

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

Cell crawling mediates collective cell migration to close undamaged epithelial gaps

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Cell response to substrate rigidity is regulated by active and passive cytoskeletal stress

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Cell shape and substrate stiffness drive actin-based cell polarity

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Collective cell migration without proliferation: density determines cell velocity and wave velocity.

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Collective cell migration: a mechanistic perspective

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Contractile forces at tricellular contacts modulate epithelial organization and monolayer integrity

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Cooperative retraction of bundled type IV pili enables nanonewton force generation

scientific article (publication date: 15 April 2008)

Coordination between Intra- and Extracellular Forces Regulates Focal Adhesion Dynamics.

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Corrigendum: Force-dependent conformational switch of α-catenin controls vinculin binding

scientific article published on 04 March 2015

Cytoskeletal coherence requires myosin-IIA contractility

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Direct imaging of single-molecules: from dynamics of a single DNA chain to the study of complex DNA-protein interactions.

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Dynamics of a tethered polymer in shear flow

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

E-cadherin-dependent stimulation of traction force at focal adhesions via the Src and PI3K signaling pathways.

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Early Passage Dependence of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Mechanics Influences Cellular Invasion and Migration

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Emergent patterns of collective cell migration under tubular confinement

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Enhanced cell-cell contact stability and decreased N-cadherin-mediated migration upon fibroblast growth factor receptor-N-cadherin cross talk

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

EpCAM promotes endosomal modulation of the cortical RhoA zone for epithelial organization

scientific article published on 13 April 2021

Epithelial Cell Packing Induces Distinct Modes of Cell Extrusions

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Epithelial bridges maintain tissue integrity during collective cell migration.

scientific article published on December 2013

Evidence of a large-scale mechanosensing mechanism for cellular adaptation to substrate stiffness.

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FBXW5 Promotes Tumorigenesis and Metastasis in Gastric Cancer via Activation of the FAK-Src Signaling Pathway

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Fast kinetics of chromatin assembly revealed by single-molecule videomicroscopy and scanning force microscopy

scientific article published in December 2000

Force-dependent binding of vinculin to α-catenin regulates cell-cell contacts stability and collective cell behavior.

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Force-dependent conformational switch of α-catenin controls vinculin binding

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Forces driving epithelial wound healing.

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Front-Rear Polarization by Mechanical Cues: From Single Cells to Tissues.

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Gap geometry dictates epithelial closure efficiency.

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Geometrical constraints and physical crowding direct collective migration of fibroblasts.

scientific article published on March 2013

High-resolution imaging of cellular processes across textured surfaces using an indexed-matched elastomer.

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Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome alters nuclear shape and reduces cell motility in three dimensional model substrates

scientific article published on March 2013

Inference of Internal Stress in a Cell Monolayer

scientific article published on April 2016

Influence of proliferation on the motions of epithelial monolayers invading adherent strips

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Interplay of RhoA and mechanical forces in collective cell migration driven by leader cells.

scientific article published on March 2014

Investigating the nature of active forces in tissues reveals how contractile cells can form extensile monolayers

scientific article published on 18 February 2021

Is the mechanical activity of epithelial cells controlled by deformations or forces?

scientific article published on 7 October 2005

Large-scale curvature sensing by directional actin flow drives cellular migration mode switching

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans through confinement.

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Magnetic micropillars as a tool to govern substrate deformations

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

Mechanical confinement triggers glioma linear migration dependent on formin FHOD3.

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Mechanical forces in cell monolayers

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Mechanical forces induced by the transendothelial migration of human neutrophils

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Mechanical link between durotaxis, cell polarity and anisotropy during cell migration

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Mechanics of epithelial closure over non-adherent environments

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Mechanics of epithelial tissues during gap closure.

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Mechanobiology of collective cell behaviours.

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Micro-actuators: when artificial muscles made of nematic liquid crystal elastomers meet soft lithography

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Micro-patterned porous substrates for cell-based assays.

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Microfabricated environments to study collective cell behaviors.

scientific article published on January 2014

Micropillar substrates: a tool for studying cell mechanobiology.

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Modeling collective cell migration in geometric confinement.

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Multiarray cell stretching platform for high-magnification real-time imaging.

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Myosin II isoforms play distinct roles in junction biogenesis

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Nanoscale architecture of cadherin-based cell adhesions.

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Nonmuscle myosin IIA-dependent force inhibits cell spreading and drives F-actin flow

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Physically based principles of cell adhesion mechanosensitivity in tissues

scientific article published on October 19, 2012

Protrusive waves guide 3D cell migration along nanofibers.

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Push it, pull it

scientific article published in Nature

Quantifying Tensile Force and ERK Phosphorylation on Actin Stress Fibers

scientific article published in January 2017

Regulation of epithelial cell organization by tuning cell-substrate adhesion

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Remodeling the zonula adherens in response to tension and the role of afadin in this response

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Running worms: C. elegans self-sorting by electrotaxis

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Single cell rigidity sensing: A complex relationship between focal adhesion dynamics and large-scale actin cytoskeleton remodeling

scientific article published on 06 April 2016

Substrate topography induces a crossover from 2D to 3D behavior in fibroblast migration

scientific article published on July 2009

Techniques to measure pilus retraction forces.

scientific article published on January 2012

The formation of ordered nanoclusters controls cadherin anchoring to actin and cell-cell contact fluidity

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

The formation of ordered nanoclusters controls cadherin anchoring to actin and cell-cell contact fluidity.

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The mechanotransduction machinery at work at adherens junctions.

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The nanoscale architecture of force-bearing focal adhesions

scientific article published on 11 July 2014

Topological defects in epithelia govern cell death and extrusion

scientific article published on April 2017

Traction forces exerted by epithelial cell sheets.

scientific article published on 26 April 2010

Traction forces exerted through N-cadherin contacts.

scientific article published on December 2006

Tubular microscaffolds for studying collective cell migration

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Velocity fields in a collectively migrating epithelium.

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[Collective cell migration: a fair sharing between leader cells and supracellular coordination]

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

[Social life of epithelial cells]

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

α-Catenin and vinculin cooperate to promote high E-cadherin-based adhesion strength

scientific article published on 24 December 2012