Andra Dumitru: Metabolic stress tunes nuclear viscoelasticiy

Andra C. Dumitru

UC Louvain, Be

Metabolic stress tunes nuclear viscoelasticiy




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Papers that support the talk:

Pathological stiffening by crosslinking glycation of titin

Agata Bak, Andra C. Dumitru, Alejandro Clemente-Manteca, Enrique Calvo, Roberto Silva-Rojas, Natalia Vicente, David Sánchez-Ortiz, Inés Martínez-Martín, Diana Velázquez-Carreras, Maria Rosaria Pricolo, Francisco M. Espinosa, João Almeida-Coelho, Carlos Pérez-MedinaRicardo Garcia, Jesús VázquezInês Falcão-PiresElías Herrero-Galán,Miquel Adrover, Jorge Alegre-Cebollada


Titin cleavage in living cardiomyocytes induces sarcomere disassembly but does not trigger cell proliferation.

Pricolo MR, López-Unzu MA, Vicente N, Morales-López C, Huerta-López C, Pérez-Franco W, Dumitru AC, Peña-Peña J, Espinosa FM, Sanchez MI, Garcia R, Silva-Rojas R, Torres M, Herrero-Galán E, Alegre-Cebollada J.J Biol Chem. 2026 Jul;302(7):113167. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2026.113167. Epub 2026 May 15. PMID: 42142587 

Mechanically knocking out titin reveals protein tension loss as a trigger of muscle disease.

Silva-Rojas R, Vicente N, Gavilán-Herrera M, Labrador-Cantarero V, Sicilia J, Giménez-Sáez O, Dumitru AC, Sánchez MI, Gato-Vilaseca M, Velázquez-Carreras D, López JA, Vázquez J, Herrero-Galán E, López-Unzu MA, Pricolo MR, Alegre-Cebollada J.Nat Biomed Eng. 2025 Oct;9(10):1758-1774. doi: 10.1038/s41551-025-01403-x. Epub 2025 Jun 5. PMID: 40473933

Dumitru AC, Koehler M.J Struct Biol. 2023 Jun;215(2):107963. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2023.107963. Epub 2023 Apr 10. PMID: 37044358



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