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Annual Review of Biophysics

Volume 50, 2021

Molecular Force Measurement with Tension Sensors

Abstract

The ability of cells to generate mechanical forces, but also to sense, adapt to, and respond to mechanical signals, is crucial for many developmental, postnatal homeostatic, and pathophysiological processes. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying cellular mechanotransduction have remained elusive for many decades, as techniques to visualize and quantify molecular forces across individual proteins in cells were missing. The development of genetically encoded molecular tension sensors now allows the quantification of piconewton-scale forces that act upon distinct molecules in living cells and even whole organisms. In this review, we discuss the physical principles, advantages, and limitations of this increasingly popular method. By highlighting current examples from the literature, we demonstrate how molecular tension sensors can be utilized to obtain access to previously unappreciated biophysical parameters that define the propagation of mechanical forces on molecular scales. We discuss how the methodology can be further developed and provide a perspective on how the technique could be applied to uncover entirely novel aspects of mechanobiology in the future.

Keyword(s): FRET, mechanical force, mechanobiology, mechanosensitivity, mechanotransduction, tension sensor
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Molecular Force Measurement with Tension Sensors
Annual Review of Biophysics 50, 595 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-101920-064756
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