Publications

An Assessment of the Mechanophysical and Hormonal Impact on Human Endometrial Epithelium Mechanics and Receptivity

Sternberg AK, Izmaylova L, Buck VU, Classen-Linke I and Leube RE

Engineering Mesoscopic 3D Tumor Models with a Self-Organizing Vascularized Matrix

De Lorenzi F, Hansen N, Theek B, Daware R, Motta A, Breuel S, Nasehi R, Baumeister J, Schöneberg J, Stojanovic N, von Stillfried S, Vogt M, Müller-Newen G, Maurer J, Sofias AM, Lammers T, Fischer H*, Kiessling F

Structuring gelatin methacryloyl – dextran hydrogels and microgels under shear

Ben Messaoud G, Stefanopoulou E, Wachendörfer M, Aveic S, Fischer H, Richtering

Actuation of Soft Thermoresponsive Hydrogels Mechanically Stimulates Osteogenesis in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells without Biochemical Factors

Castro Nava A, Doolaar IC, Labude-Weber N, Malyaran H, Babu S, Chandorkar Y, Di Russo J, Neuss S, De Laporte L

Capturing the mechanosensitivity of cell proliferation in models of epithelium

Höllring K, Nuić L, Rogić L, Kaliman S, Gehrer S, Rehfeldt F, Hubert M, Smith AS

Morphology as indicator of adaptive changes of model tissues in osmotically and chemically changing environments

Höllring K, Vurnek D, Gehrer S, Dudziak D, Hubert M, Smith AS

Anisotropic molecular diffusion in confinement II: A model for structurally complex particles applied to transport in thin ionic liquid films

Höllring K, Baer A, Vučemilović-Alagić N, Smith DM, Smith AS

Anisotropic molecular diffusion in confinement I: Transport of small particles in potential and density gradients

Höllring K, Baer A, Vučemilović-Alagić N, Smith DM, Smith AS

Plasticity of cytoplasmic intermediate filament architecture determines cellular functions

Schwarz N and Leube RE

Epigenetic biomarkers to track differentiation of pluripotent stem cells

Schmidt M, Zeevaert K, Elsafi Mabrouk MH, Goetzke R, Wagner W

Smuggling on the Nanoscale—Fusogenic Liposomes Enable Efficient RNA-Transfer with Negligible Immune Response In Vitro and In Vivo

Hoffmann M, Gerlach S, Takamiya M, Tarazi S, Hersch N, Csiszár A, Springer R, Dreissen G, Scharr H, Rastegar S, Beil T, Strähle U, Merkel R and Hoffmann B

Wall shear stress during impingement at the building platform can exceed nozzle wall shear stress in microvalve-based bioprinting

Nasehi R, Aveic S, Fischer H

3D geometry orchestrates the transcriptional landscape of metastatic neuroblastoma cells in a multicellular in vitro bone model

Nasehi R, Abdallah AT, Pantile M, Zanon C, Vogt M, Rütten S, Fischer H, Aveic S

A Fibrin-Based Human Multicellular Gingival 3d Model Provides Biomimicry and Enables Long-Term In Vitro Studies

Sahle M, Wachendörfer M, Palkowitz AL, Nasehi R, Aveic S, Fischer H

Varying the stiffness and diffusivity of rod-shaped microgels independently through their molecular building blocks

Kittel Y, Guerzoni LPB, Itzin C, Rommel D, Mork M, Bastard C, Häßel B, Omidinia-Anarkoli A, Centeno SP, Haraszti T, Kim K, Guck J, Kuehne AJC, De Laporte L

Actuation of soft thermoresponsive hydrogels mechanically stimulates osteogenesis in human mesenchymal stem cells
without biochemical factors

Castro Nava A, Doolaar IC, Labude N, Malyaran H, Babu S, Chandorkar Y, Di Russo J, Neuss S, De Laporte L

Analysis of flowinduced transcriptional response and cell alignment of different sources of endothelial cells used in
vascular tissue engineering

RojasGonzález DM, Babendreyer A, Ludwig A and Mela P

A keratin code defines the textile nature of epithelial tissue architecture

Di Russo J, Magin TM and Leube RE

Mechanical activation of lung epithelial cells through the ion channel Piezo1 activates the metalloproteinases ADAM10 and ADAM17 and promotes growth factor and adhesion molecule release

Grannemann C, Pabst A, Honert A, Schieren J, Martin C, Hank S, Böll S, Bläsius K, Düsterhöft S, Jahr H, Merkel R, Leube RE, Babendreyer A, Ludwig A

Transformative Medical Materials

De Laporte L, Kiessling F

Transformative materials to create 3D functional human tissue models in vitro in a reproducible manner

Gerardo-Nava JL, Jansen J, Günther D, Klasen L, Thiebes AL, Niessig B, Bergerbit C, Meyer AA, Linkhorst J, Bart M, Akhyari P, Stingl J, Nagel S, Stiehl T, Lampert A, Leube RE, Wessling M, Santoro F, Ingebrandt S, Jockenhoevel S, Herrmann A, Fischer H, Wagner W, Schmitt RH, Kiessling F, Kramann R, De Laporte L

Lifelike Transformative Materials for Biohybrid Implants: Inspired by Nature, Driven by Technology

Fernández-Colino A, Kiessling F, Slabu I, De Laporte L, Akhyari P, Nagel SK, Stingl J, Reese S, Jockenhoevel S

Towards the Next Generation of Neural Iontronic Interfaces

Forró C, Musall S, Montes VR, Linkhorst J, Walter P, Wessling M, Offenhäuser A, Ingebrandt S, Weber Y, Lampert A, Santoro A

Polarity signaling balances epithelial contractility and mechanical resistance

Rübsam M, Püllen R, Tellkamp F, Bianco A, Peskoller M, Bloch W, Green KJ, Merkel R, Hoffmann B, Wickström SA, Niessen CM

Elastomeric Pillar Cages Modulate Actomyosin Contractility of Epithelial Microtissues by Substrate Stiffness and Topography

Esser L, Springer R, Dreissen G, Lövenich L, Konrad J, Hampe N, Merkel R, Hoffmann B, Noetzel E

YAP1 is essential for self-organized differentiation of pluripotent stem cells

Zeevaert K, Goetzke R, Elsafi Mabrouk MH, Schmidt M, Maaßen C, Hennecke A, He C, Gillner A, Zenke M, Wagner W

Bioprinting-associated pulsatile hydrostatic pressure elicits a mild proinflammatory response in epi- and endothelial cells

Nasehi R, Schieren J, Grannemann C, Palkowitz AL, Babendreyer A, Schwarz N, Aveic S, Ludwig A, Leube RE, Fischer H

Mechanobiological implications of age-related remodelling in the outer retina

Piskova T, Kozyrina AN, Di Russo J

Mesoscopic modelling of epithelial tissues

Höllring K and Smith AS

Intrinsic cell rheology drives junction maturation

Sri-Ranjan K, Sanchez-Alonso JL, Swiatlowska P, Rothery S, Novak P, Gerlach S, Koeninger D, Hoffmann B, Merkel R, Stevens MM, Sun SX, Gorelik J, Braga VMM

Regionally specific levels and patterns of keratin 8 expression in the mouse embryo visceral endoderm emerge upon anterior-posterior axis determination

Despin-Guitard E, Quenec’Hdu R, Nahaboo W, Schwarz N, Leube RE, Chazaud C and Migeotte I

Pre-Programmed Rod-Shaped Microgels to Create Multi-Directional Anisogels for 3D Tissue Engineering

Braunmiller DL, Babu S, Gehlen DB, Seuß M, Haraszti T, Falkenstein A, Eigen J, De Laporte L, Crassous JJ

Cortical tension regulates desmosomal morphogenesis

Moch M, Schieren J and Leube RE

A Ca2+-Mediated Switch of Epiplakin from a Diffuse to Keratin-Bound State Affects Keratin Dynamics

Ratajczyk S, Drexler C, Windoffer R, Leube RE and Fuchs P

Bioprinting-Associated Shear Stress and Hydrostatic Pressure Affect the Angiogenic Potential of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells

Köpf M, Nasehi R, Kreimendahl F, Jockenhoevel S, Fischer H

First-Principle Coarse-Graining Framework for Scale-Free Bell-Like Association and Dissociation Rates in Thermal and Active Systems

Janeš JA, Monzel C, Schmidt D, Merkel R, Seifert U, Sengupta K and Smith AS

ECM-transmitted shear stress induces apoptotic cell extrusion in early breast gland development

Friedland F, Babu S, Springer R, Konrad J, Herfs Y, Gerlach S, Gehlen J, Krause HJ, De Laporte L, Merkel R, Noetzel E

How do the Local Physical, Biochemical, and Mechanical Properties of an Injectable Synthetic Anisotropic Hydrogel Affect Oriented Nerve Growth?

Babu S, Chen I, Vedaraman S, Gerardo-Nava J, Licht C, Kittel Y, Haraszti T, Di Russo J and De Laporte L

Characterization of transient rheological behavior of soft materials using ferrofluid droplets

Azarkh A, Geiger M, Jung SH, Noetzel E, Merkel R, Pich A, Schnakenberg U

Cells feel the beat – temporal effect of cyclic mechanical actuation on muscle cells

Chandorkar Y, Bastard C, Di Russo J, Haraszt T, De Laporte L

Combining Image Restoration and Traction Force Microscopy to Study Extracellular Matrix-Dependent Keratin Filament Network Plasticity

Yoon S, Windoffer R, Kozyrina AN, Piskova T, Di Russo J and Leube RE

Quantitative mapping of keratin networks in 3D commentary

Windoffer R, Schwarz N, Yoon S, Piskova T, Scholkemper M, Stegmaier J, Bönsch A, Di Russo J, Leube RE

Keratin filaments mediate the expansion of extra-embryonic membranes in the post-gastrulation mouse embryo

Nahaboo W , Eski SE , Despin-Guitard E, Vermeersch M, Versaevel M , Saykali B, Monteyne D, Gabriele S, Magin TM, Schwarz N , Leube RE, Zwijsen A, Perez-Morga D, Singh SP, Migeotte I

The spatial self-organization within pluripotent stem cell colonies is continued in detaching aggregates

Mabrouk MHE, Goetzke R, Abagnale G, Yesilyurt B, Salz L, Cypris O, Glück P, Liesenfelder S, Zeevaert K, Ma Z, Toledo MAS, Li R, Costa IG,
Lampert A, Pachauri V, Schnakenberg U, Zenke M, Wagner W

An exact algorithm to detect the percolation transition in molecular dynamics simulations of cross-linking polymer networks

Livraghi M, Höllring K, Wick CR, Smith DM and Smith A-S

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Reconstruction of Ultra-thin Alveolar-capillary Basement Membrane Mimics

Jain P, Nishiguchi A, Linz G, Wessling M, Ludwig A, Rossaint R, Möller M, Singh S

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Integrin α5β1 nano-presentation regulates collective keratinocyte migration independent of substrate rigidity

Di Russo J, Young JL, Wegner JWR, Steins T, Kessler H, Spatz JP

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Characterization of Synthetic Tf2 as a NaV1.3 Selective Pharmacological Probe

Israel MR , Dash TS, Bothe SN, Robinson SD, Deuis JR, Craik DJ, Lampert A, Vetter I and Durek T

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Phosphorylation of a chronic pain mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.7 increases voltage sensitivity

Cann KL, Meents JE, Eswaran VSB, Dohrn MF, Bott R, Maier A, Bialer M, Hautvast P, Erickson A, Rolke R, Rothermel M, Körner J, Kurth I, Lampert A

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Assessing the impact of pain-linked Nav1.7 variants: An example of two variants with no biophysical effect

Hoffmann M, Hersch N, Gerlach S, Dreissen G, Springer R, Merkel R, Csiszár A and Hoffmann B 

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Growth, lifetime, directional movement and myosindependent motility of mutant keratin granules in cultured cells

Lehmann SM, Leube RE, Windoffer R

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Mechanism underlying hooked resurgent-like tail currents induced by an insecticide in human cardiac Nav1.5

Thull S, Neacsu C, O'Reilly AO, Bothe S, Hausmann R, Huth T, Meents J, Lampert A

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Human sensory neurons derived from pluripotent stem cells for disease modelling and personalized medicine

Lampert A, Bennett DL, McDermott LA, Neureiter A, Eberhardt E, Winner B, Zenke M

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Stretchable electrical cell-substrate impedance sensor platform for monitoring cell monolayers under strain

Zhou C, Bette S, Babendreyer A, Hoffmann C, Gerlach S, Kremers T, Ludwig A, Hoffmann B, Merkel R, Uhlig S, Schnakenberg U

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Mechanical Regulation of Epithelial Tissue Homeostasis

Kaliman S, Hubert M, Wollnik C, Nuić L, Vurnek D, Gehrer S, Lovrić J, Dudziak D, Rehfeldt F and Smith AS

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Complex Size and Surface Charge Determine Nucleic Acid Transfer by Fusogenic Liposomes

Hoffmann M, Hersch N, Gerlach S, Dreissen G, Springer R, Merkel R, Csiszár A and Hoffmann B 

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Controlling Structure with Injectable Biomaterials to Better Mimic Tissue Heterogeneity and Anisotropy

Babu S, Albertino F, Anarkoli AO and De Laporte L

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From Microspikes to Stress Fibers: Actin Remodeling in Breast Acini Drives Myosin II-Mediated Basement Membrane Invasion

Eschenbruch J, Dreissen G, Springer R, Konrad J, Merkel R, Hoffmann B and Noetzel E

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How Mechanical Forces Change the Human Endometrium during the Menstrual Cycle in Preparation for Embryo Implantation

Sternberg AK, Buck VU, Classen-Linke I and Leube RE

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Skin under Strain: From Epithelial Model Tissues to Adult Epithelia

Püllen R, Konrad J, Merkel R and Hoffmann B

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Multiscale 3D Bioprinting by Nozzle-Free Acoustic Droplet Ejection

Jentsch S, Nasehi R, Kuckelkorn C, Gundert B, Aveic S and Fischer H

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Hemidesmosome-Related Keratin Filament Bundling and Nucleation

Moch M and Leube RE

Steroid hormones and human choriogonadotropin influence the distribution of alpha6-integrin and desmoplakin 1 in gland-like endometrial epithelial spheroids

Buck VU, Kohlen MT, Sternberg AK, Rösing B, Neulen J , Leube RE, Classen-Linke I

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Cell Force-Driven Basement Membrane Disruption Fuels EGF- and Stiffness-Induced Invasive Cell Dissemination from Benign Breast Gland Acini

Gaiko-Shcherbak A, Eschenbruch J, Kronenberg NM, Teske M, Wolters B, Springer R, Gather MC, Merkel R, Hoffmann B, Noetzel E

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Digitally Fabricated and Naturally Augmented In Vitro Tissues

Duarte Campos DF and De Laporte L

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Senescence-Associated Metabolomic Phenotype in Primary and iPSC-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells

Fernandez-Rebollo E, Franzen J, Goetzke R, Hollmann J, Ostrowska A, Oliverio M, Sieben T, Rath B, Kornfeld JW, Wagner W

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PRDM8 reveals aberrant DNA methylation in aging syndromes and is relevant for hematopoietic and neuronal differentiation

Cypris O, Eipel M, Franzen J, Rösseler C, Tharmapalan V, Kuo CC, Vieri M, Nikolić M, Kirschner M, Brümmendorf TH, Zenke M, Lampert A, Beier F, Wagner W

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Regulation of keratin network dynamics by the mechanical properties of the environment in migrating cells

Pora A, Yoon S, Dreissen G, Hoffmann B, Merkel R, Windoffer R and Leube RE

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Differential Induction of the ADAM17 Regulators iRhom1 and 2 in Endothelial Cells

Babendreyer A, Rojas-Gonzalez DM, Giese AA, Fellendorf S, Düsterhöft S, Mela P and Ludwig A

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Mechanobiology of Epithelia: From the Perspective of Extracellular Matrix Heterogeneity

Kozyrina AN, Piskova T and Di Russo J

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Scratch-induced partial skin wounds re-epithelialize by sheets of independently migrating keratinocytes

Bornes L, Windoffer R, Leube RE, Morgner J, van Rheenen J

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Cell Mechanics in Embryoid Bodies

Zeevaert K, Elsafi Mabrouk MH, Wagner W and Goetzke R

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Model for Bundling of Keratin Intermediate Filaments

Haimov E, Windoffer R, Leube RE, Urbakh M, Kozlov M

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Choosing the Right Differentiation Medium to Develop Mucociliary Phenotype of Primary Nasal Epithelial Cells In Vitro

AE Luengen, C Kniebs, EM Buhl, CG Cornelissen, T Schmitz-Rode, S Jockenhoevel, AL Thiebes

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Genetic barcoding reveals clonal dominance in iPSC-derived mesenchymal stromal cells

Hollmann J, Brecht J, Goetzke R, Franzen J, Selich A, Schmidt M, Eipel M, Ostrowska A, Hapala J, Fernandez-Rebollo E, Müller-Newen G,  Rothe M, Eggermann T, Zenke M and Wagner W

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Different Frequency of Cyclic Tensile Strain Relates to Anabolic/Catabolic Conditions Consistent with Immunohistochemical Staining Intensity in Tenocytes

Kubo Y, Hoffmann B, Goltz K, Schnakenberg U, Jahr H, Merkel R, SchulzeTanzil G, Pufe T and Tohidnezhad M

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Why do epithelia display heterogeneity? Bridging physical and biological concepts

Vishwakarma M and Di Russo J

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Cellular responses to beating hydrogels to investigate mechanotransduction

Chandorkar Y, Castro Nava A, Schweizerhof S, Van Dongen M, Haraszti T, Köhler J, Zhang H, Windoffer R, Mourran A, Möller M, De Laporte L

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Keratin intermediate filaments: intermediaries of epithelial cell migration

Yoon S, Leube RE

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β1 and β3 subunits amplify mechanosensitivity of the cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.5

Maroni M, Körner J, Schüttler J, Winner B, Lampert A, Eberhardt E

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Differentiation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells towards Mesenchymal Stromal Cells is Hampered by Culture in 3D Hydrogels

Goetzke R, Keijdener H, Franzen J, Ostrowska A, Nüchtern S, Mela P and Wagner W

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