Review: Understanding cells as materials

Title: The cell as matter: Connecting molecular biology to cellular functions

Authors: Yiwei Li, Wenhui Tang, Ming Guo*

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Matter 6(4) 1863-1891 (2021)

Mechanics of Basement membrane

Title: Nonlinear elasticity of biological basement membrane revealed by rapid inflation and deflation

Authors: Hui Li, Yue Zheng, Yu Long Han, Shengqiang Cai, Ming Guo*

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PNAS 118 (11) e2022422118 (2021)

Review: Engineering methods for studying mechanics and function of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition

Title: The epithelial-mesenchymal transition and the cytoskeleton in bioengineered systems

Authors: Susan E Leggett, Alex M Hruska, Ming Guo, Ian Y Wong

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Cell Communication and Signaling 119 (1) 1-24 (2021)

Compression induced Dedifferentiated Adipocytes (CiDAs)

Title: Generation of the compression-induced dedifferentiated adipocytes (CiDAs) using hypertonic medium

Authors: Yiwei Li, Angelo S. Mao, Bo Ri Seo, Xing Zhao, Satish Kumar Gupta, Maorong Chen, Yu Long Han, Ting-Yu Shih, David J. Mooney, Ming Guo*

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Bio-protocol 11(4) e3920-e3920 (2021)

Covid-19 & Nanotechnology

Title: Insights from nanotechnology in COVID-19 treatment

Authors: Zhongmin Tang, Xingcai Zhang, Yiqing Shu, Ming Guo, Han Zhang, Wei Tao

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Nanotoday 36, 101019 (2021)

Molecular crowding impacts Wnt signaling

Title: Volumetric compression induces intracellular crowding to control intestinal organoid growth via Wnt/β-catenin signaling

Authors: Yiwei Li, Maorong Chen, Jiliang Hu, Ren Sheng, Qirong Lin, Xi He, Ming Guo*

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Cell Stem Cell 28 (1), 63-78 (2021)

Review: Fluid mechanics in Multicellular Living Systems

Title: In Pursuit of Designing Multicellular Engineered Living Systems: A Fluid Mechanical Perspective

Authors: Jean Carlos Serrano, Satish Kumar Gupta, Roger D Kamm, Ming Guo*

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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 53, 411-437 (2021)

Volume variation and fluid transport in cell spheroids

Title: Gap junctions amplify spatial variations in cell volume in proliferating tumor spheroids

Authors: Eoin McEvoy, Yu Long Han, Ming Guo, Vivek B Shenoy

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Nature Communications 11 (1), 1-11 (2020)

Tumor immunology

Title: Fighting immune cold and reprogramming immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment with red blood cell membrane-camouflaged nanobullets

Authors: Zhe Yang, Di Gao, Xiaoqing Guo, Lin Jin, Juanjuan Zheng, Ying Wang, Shuojia Chen, Xuewei Zheng, Li Zeng, Ming Guo, Xingcai Zhang, Zhongmin Tian

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ACS nano 14 (12), 17442-17457 (2020)

Compression induced Dedifferentiated Adipocytes (CiDAs)

Title: Compression-induced dedifferentiation of adipocytes promotes tumor progression

Authors: Yiwei Li, Angelo S Mao, Bo Ri Seo, Xing Zhao, Satish Kumar Gupta, Maorong Chen, Yu Long Han, Ting-Yu Shih, David J Mooney, Ming Guo*

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Science advances 6 (4), eaax5611 (2020)

4D single cell mechanical imaging during cancer invasion

Title: Cell swelling, softening and invasion in a three-dimensional breast cancer model

Authors: Yu Long Han, Adrian F Pegoraro, Hui Li, Kaifu Li, Yuan Yuan, Guoqiang Xu, Zichen Gu, Jiawei Sun, Yukun Hao, Satish Kumar Gupta, Yiwei Li, Wenhui Tang, Hua Kang, Lianghong Teng, Jeffrey J Fredberg, Ming Guo*

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Nature physics 16 (1), 101-108 (2020)

Chapter: Optical Tweezers for cell mechanics

Title: Quantification of Cell-Matrix Interaction in 3D Using Optical Tweezers

Authors: Satish Kumar Gupta, Jiawei Sun, Yu Long Han, Chenglin Lyu, Tianlei He, Ming Guo*

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Multi-scale Extracellular Matrix Mechanics and Mechanobiology 283-310 (2020)

Intermediate filaments determine nonlinear cell mechanics

Title: High stretchability, strength, and toughness of living cells enabled by hyperelastic vimentin intermediate filaments

Authors: Jiliang Hu, Yiwei Li, Yukun Hao, Tianqi Zheng, Satish K Gupta, German Alberto Parada, Huayin Wu, Shaoting Lin, Shida Wang, Xuanhe Zhao, Robert D Goldman, Shengqiang Cai, Ming Guo*

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PNAS 116 (35), 17175-17180 (2019)

Highly stretchable engineered microtissue

Title: Helical nanofiber yarn enabling highly stretchable engineered microtissue

Authors: Yiwei Li, Fengyun Guo, Yukun Hao, Satish Kumar Gupta, Jiliang Hu, Yaqiong Wang, Nü Wang, Yong Zhao, Ming Guo*

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PNAS 116 (19), 9245-9250 (2019)

Lobster belly membrane is a ultra-tough hydrogel

Title: Natural hydrogel in American lobster: A soft armor with high toughness and strength

Authors: Jinrong Wu, Zhao Qin, Liangliang Qu, Hao Zhang, Fei Deng, Ming Guo*

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Acta biomaterialia 88, 102-110 (2019)

Anisotropic cell mechanics

Title: Anisotropic mechanics and dynamics of a living mammalian cytoplasm

Authors: Satish Kumar Gupta, Yiwei Li, Ming Guo*

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Soft Matter 15 (2), 190-199 (2019)

Fracture mechanics of cell division

Title: Fracture mechanics modeling of popping event during daughter cell separation

Authors: Yuxuan Jiang, Xudong Liang, Ming Guo, Yanping Cao, Shengqiang Cai

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Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology 17 (4), 1131-1137 (2018)

Cell contraction triggers nonlinear ECM stiffening

Title: Cell contraction induces long-ranged stress stiffening in the extracellular matrix

Authors: Yu Long Han, Pierre Ronceray, Guoqiang Xu, Andrea Malandrino, Roger D Kamm, Martin Lenz, Chase P Broedersz, Ming Guo*

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PNAS 115 (16), 4075-4080 (2018)

Cell volume impacts cell biology

Title: Cell volume change through water efflux impacts cell stiffness and stem cell fate

Authors: Ming Guo, Adrian F Pegoraro, Angelo Mao, Enhua H Zhou, Praveen R Arany, Yulong Han, Dylan T Burnette, Mikkel H Jensen, Karen E Kasza, Jeffrey R Moore, Frederick C Mackintosh, Jeffrey J Fredberg, David J Mooney, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, David A Weitz

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PNAS 114 (41), E8618-E8627 (2017)

Compare active and passive microrheology in cells

Title: Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium mechanics of living mammalian cytoplasm

Authors: Satish Kumar Gupta, Ming Guo*

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Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 107, 284-293 (2017)

State diagram of living cell cytoplasm

Title: Size-and speed-dependent mechanical behavior in living mammalian cytoplasm

Authors: Jiliang Hu, Somaye Jafari, Yulong Han, Alan J Grodzinsky, Shengqiang Cai, Ming Guo*

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PNAS 114 (36), 9529-9534 (2017)

Rapid circuit assembly via coffee ring effect

Title: Rapid assembly of large scale transparent circuit arrays using PDMS nanofilm shaped coffee ring

Authors: Yiwei Li, Weixia Zhang, Jiliang Hu, Yachao Wang, Xiaojun Feng, Wei Du, Ming Guo, Bi‐Feng Liu

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Advanced Functional Materials 27 (11), 1606045 (2017)

Chapter: functions of vimentin intermediate filaments

Title: Methods for determining the cellular functions of vimentin intermediate filaments

Authors: Karen M Ridge, Dale Shumaker, Amélie Robert, Caroline Hookway, Vladimir I Gelfand, Paul A Janmey, Jason Lowery, Ming Guo, David A Weitz, Edward Kuczmarski, Robert D Goldman

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Methods in enzymology 568, 389-426 (2016)