How do the mechanical properties of cells change with respect to substrate rigidity?

As stiffness of the extracellular matrix increases, the mechanical properties of the actin cytoskeleton shifts from fluid to solid.

These findings were published in Nature Communications in 2015.

Gupta M, Sarangi BR, Deschamps J, Nematbakhsh Y, Callan-Jones A, Margadant F, Mège RM, Lim […]