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SUBMITTER: Wu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6706517 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of biological physics 20190730 3
The stiffness of adherent mammalian cells is regulated by the elasticity of substrates due to mechanotransduction via integrin-based focal adhesions. Dictyostelium discoideum is an ameboid protozoan model organism that does not carry genes for classical integrin and can adhere to substrates without forming focal adhesions. It also has a life cycle that naturally includes both single-cellular and multicellular life forms. In this article, we report the measurements of the elastic modulus of singl ...[more]