Matthieu Piel: Water content in the cell and the nucleus

Matthieu Piel

Institute Curie, Paris

Water content in the cell and the nucleus


Papers that may be relevant to the presentation:

Nuclear deformations, from signaling to perturbation and damage.
Nader GPF, Williart A, Piel M.Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2021 Oct;72:137-145. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2021.07.008. Epub 2021 Aug 27. PMID: 34461580 

Optical volume and mass measurements show that mammalian cells swell during mitosis.
Zlotek-Zlotkiewicz E, Monnier S, Cappello G, Le Berre M, Piel M.J Cell Biol. 2015 Nov 23;211(4):765-74. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201505056. PMID: 26598614 

 
Forcing Entry into the Nucleus.
Lomakin A, Nader G, Piel M.Dev Cell. 2017 Dec 4;43(5):547-548. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.11.015. PMID: 29207257
Nuclear fragility, blaming the blebs.
Srivastava N, Nader GPF, Williart A, Rollin R, Cuvelier D, Lomakin A, Piel M.Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2021 Jun;70:100-108. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2021.01.007. Epub 2021 Mar 1.
PMID: 33662810

A mechano-osmotic feedback couples cell volume to the rate of cell deformation.
Venkova L, Vishen AS, Lembo S, Srivastava N, Duchamp B, Ruppel A, Williart A, Vassilopoulos S, Deslys A, Garcia Arcos JM, Diz-Muñoz A, Balland M, Joanny JF, Cuvelier D, Sens P, Piel M.Elife. 2022 Apr 13;11:e72381. doi: 10.7554/eLife.72381. PMID: 35416768
 

Coupled nucleoplasmic flows and envelope expansion govern the mechanical resistance of the nucleus

Romain Rollin, Michele Nava, Alice Williart, Solène Ludwig, Camille Plancke, Marie Aude Plamont, Mabel San Roman, Guilherme P. F Nader, Zoher Gueroui, Jean-François Joanny, Daniel J. Müller, Damien Cuvelier, Pierre Sens, Matthieu Piel
BioRxiv 2026
doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.12.731963

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