Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Apico-basal cell compression regulates Lamin A/C levels in epithelial tissues

  • K. Venkatesan Iyer,
  • Anna Taubenberger,
  • Salma Ahmed Zeidan,
  • Natalie A. Dye,
  • Suzanne Eaton,
  • Frank Jülicher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22010-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The nuclear lamina bridges mechanical forces from the cytoskeleton to the nucleus, and while Lamin A/C is known to be crucial for this process, its regulation remains unclear. Here the authors show that levels of Lamin A/C scale with apico-basal compression of cells independently of tissue stiffness using Drosophila epithelial tissues and mammalian cells.