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Demeulenaere SK, Bennett MA, Somerfield B, Wu H, Utgaard ME, Patel H, Sala S, Longtine ER, Zied A, Kirk JA, Oakes PW, Beach JR. Vascular Smooth Muscle Myosin 2 Filaments Dynamically Assemble and Stabilize During Induced Contractility. bioRxiv. 2026 Apr 29;. doi: 10.1101/2022.10.10.511341. PubMed PMID: 42094517; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13142422.

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Chandrasekar S, Utgaard ME, Somerfield B, Wu H, Beach JR, Oakes PW. Local RhoA activation induces anillin-independent septin recruitment in interphase cells. Mol Biol Cell. 2026 May 1;37(5):ar42. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E25-09-0468. Epub 2026 Mar 25. PubMed PMID: 41880215; NIHMSID:NIHMS2168580.

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Caillier A, Oakes PW. Double Sided Traction Force Microscopy: A Method to Confine Cells for Physiologically Relevant Force Measurements. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2026 Mar 19;:e70129. doi: 10.1002/cm.70129. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 41854182; NIHMSID:NIHMS2178786.

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Utgaard ME, Caillier A, Chandrasekar S, Tidei JJ, Balasubramanian H, Lee RM, Puls O, Khuon S, Aaron J, Chew TL, Beach JR, Oakes PW. Mechanically-induced Septin Networks Protect Nuclear Integrity. bioRxiv. 2026 Jan 21;. doi: 10.64898/2026.01.20.700414. PubMed PMID: 41648276; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12871836.

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Cavanaugh KE, Franco-Oñate MJ, Laird DJ, Oakes PW, Alert R, Weiner OD. A mechanical origin for implantation defects in embryos from aged females. bioRxiv. 2025 Oct 1;. doi: 10.1101/2025.09.29.679218. PubMed PMID: 41256708; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12621688.

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Sala S, Chandrasekar S, Troughton L, Wu H, Beach JR, Oakes PW. LIM Domain Proteins link molecular and global tension by recognizing strained actin in adhesions. bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 17;. doi: 10.1101/2025.07.16.665189. PubMed PMID: 40791530; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12338669.

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Tidei JJ, Oakes PW, Beach JR. Myosin 2 - A general contractor for the cytoskeleton. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2025 Jun;94:102522. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2025.102522. Epub 2025 May 3. Review. PubMed PMID: 40319507; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12151302.

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Oakes PW. Cytoskeletal repair: Zyxin relieves actin stress from the inside out. Curr Biol. 2025 Feb 24;35(4):R148-R150. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.055. PubMed PMID: 39999785.

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Sala S, Caillier A, Oakes PW. Principles and regulation of mechanosensing. J Cell Sci. 2024 Sep 15;137(18). doi: 10.1242/jcs.261338. Epub 2024 Sep 19. Review. PubMed PMID: 39297391; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11423818.

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Caillier A, Oleksyn D, Fowell DJ, Miller J, Oakes PW. T cells use focal adhesions to pull themselves through confined environments. J Cell Biol. 2024 Oct 7;223(10). doi: 10.1083/jcb.202310067. Epub 2024 Jun 18. PubMed PMID: 38889096; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11187980.

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Quinn JM, Wang Y, Wood M, Flozak AS, Le PM, Yemelyanov A, Oakes PW, Gottardi CJ. α-catenin middle- and actin-binding domain unfolding mutants differentially impact epithelial strength and sheet migration. Mol Biol Cell. 2024 May 1;35(5):ar65. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E23-01-0036. Epub 2024 Mar 20. PubMed PMID: 38507238; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11151094.

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Quintanilla MA, Patel H, Wu H, Sochacki KA, Chandrasekar S, Akamatsu M, Rotty JD, Korobova F, Bear JE, Taraska JW, Oakes PW, Beach JR. Local monomer levels and established filaments potentiate non-muscle myosin 2 assembly. J Cell Biol. 2024 Apr 1;223(4). doi: 10.1083/jcb.202305023. Epub 2024 Feb 14. PubMed PMID: 38353656; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10866686.

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Oakes PW, Trevorrow P. An interview with Patrick Oakes-Loyola University Chicago, IL, USA. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2024 Jun-Jul;81(6-7):287-288. doi: 10.1002/cm.21834. Epub 2024 Jan 27. PubMed PMID: 38279969.

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Schmitt MS, Colen J, Sala S, Devany J, Seetharaman S, Caillier A, Gardel ML, Oakes PW, Vitelli V. Machine learning interpretable models of cell mechanics from protein images. Cell. 2024 Jan 18;187(2):481-494.e24. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.11.041. Epub 2024 Jan 8. PubMed PMID: 38194965; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11225795.

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Seetharaman S, Sala S, Gardel ML, Oakes PW. Quantifying Strain-Sensing Protein Recruitment During Stress Fiber Repair. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2600:169-182. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2851-5_11. PubMed PMID: 36587097.

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Chou WH, Molaei M, Wu H, Oakes PW, Beach JR, Gardel ML. Limiting pool and actin architecture controls myosin cluster sizes in adherent cells. Biophys J. 2024 Jan 16;123(2):157-171. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.12.004. Epub 2023 Dec 6. PubMed PMID: 38062704; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10808045.

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Molaei M, Redford SA, Chou WH, Scheff D, de Pablo JJ, Oakes PW, Gardel ML. Measuring response functions of active materials from data. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Oct 17;120(42):e2305283120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2305283120. Epub 2023 Oct 11. PubMed PMID: 37819979; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10589671.

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Wang Y, Troughton LD, Xu F, Chatterjee A, Ding C, Zhao H, Pulido Cifuentes L, Wagner RB, Wang T, Tan S, Chen J, Li L, Umulis D, Kuang S, Suter DM, Yuan C, Chan D, Huang F, Oakes PW, Deng Q. Atypical peripheral actin band formation via overactivation of RhoA and nonmuscle myosin II in mitofusin 2-deficient cells. Elife. 2023 Sep 19;12. doi: 10.7554/eLife.88828. PubMed PMID: 37724949; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10550287.

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Chandrasekar S, Beach JR, Oakes PW. Shining a light on RhoA: Optical control of cell contractility. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2023 Aug;161:106442. doi: 10.1016/j.biocel.2023.106442. Epub 2023 Jun 20. Review. PubMed PMID: 37348811; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10530351.

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Wagner EL, Im JS, Sala S, Nakahata MI, Imbery TE, Li S, Chen D, Nimchuk K, Noy Y, Archer DW, Xu W, Hashisaki G, Avraham KB, Oakes PW, Shin JB. Repair of noise-induced damage to stereocilia F-actin cores is facilitated by XIRP2 and its novel mechanosensor domain. Elife. 2023 Jun 9;12. doi: 10.7554/eLife.72681. PubMed PMID: 37294664; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10259482.

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Vitriol EA, Quintanilla MA, Tidei JJ, Troughton LD, Cody A, Cisterna BA, Jane ML, Oakes PW, Beach JR. Nonmuscle myosin 2 filaments are processive in cells. Biophys J. 2023 Sep 19;122(18):3678-3689. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.05.014. Epub 2023 May 22. PubMed PMID: 37218133; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10541485.

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Sala S, Oakes PW. LIM domain proteins. Curr Biol. 2023 May 8;33(9):R339-R341. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.030. PubMed PMID: 37160086.

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Hong Y, Walling BL, Kim HR, Serratelli WS, Lozada JR, Sailer CJ, Amitrano AM, Lim K, Mongre RK, Kim KD, Capece T, Lomakina EB, Reilly NS, Vo K, Gerber SA, Fan TC, Yu AL, Oakes PW, Waugh RE, Jun CD, Reagan PM, Kim M. ST3GAL1 and βII-spectrin pathways control CAR T cell migration to target tumors. Nat Immunol. 2023 Jun;24(6):1007-1019. doi: 10.1038/s41590-023-01498-x. Epub 2023 Apr 17. PubMed PMID: 37069398; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10515092.

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Bennett M, Demeulenaere S, Wu H, Patel H, Sala S, Longtine E, Oakes P, Beach J. Smooth Muscle Myosin 2 Filaments Dynamically Assemble and Stabilize During Induced Contractility. [preprint]. 2022 October. doi: 10.1101/2022.10.10.511341.

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Baillet A, McMurray MA, Oakes PW. Meeting report - the ever-fascinating world of septins. J Cell Sci. 2021 Dec 15;134(24). doi: 10.1242/jcs.259552. Epub 2021 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 34910818; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10658896.

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Marcotti S, de Freitas DB, Troughton LD, Kenny FN, Shaw TJ, Stramer BM, Oakes PW. A workflow for rapid unbiased quantification of fibrillar feature alignment in biological images. Front Comput Sci. 2021 Oct;3. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2021.745831. Epub 2021 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 34888522; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8654057.

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Sala S, Oakes PW. Stress fiber strain recognition by the LIM protein testin is cryptic and mediated by RhoA. Mol Biol Cell. 2021 Aug 19;32(18):1758-1771. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E21-03-0156. Epub 2021 May 26. PubMed PMID: 34038160; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8684727.

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Fernandes NRJ, Reilly NS, Schrock DC, Hocking DC, Oakes PW, Fowell DJ. CD4(+) T Cell Interstitial Migration Controlled by Fibronectin in the Inflamed Skin. Front Immunol. 2020;11:1501. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01501. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32793204; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7393769.

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Reilly EC, Lambert Emo K, Buckley PM, Reilly NS, Smith I, Chaves FA, Yang H, Oakes PW, Topham DJ. T(RM) integrins CD103 and CD49a differentially support adherence and motility after resolution of influenza virus infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jun 2;117(22):12306-12314. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1915681117. Epub 2020 May 21. PubMed PMID: 32439709; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7275699.

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Cavanaugh KE, Oakes PW, Gardel ML. Optogenetic Control of RhoA to Probe Subcellular Mechanochemical Circuitry. Curr Protoc Cell Biol. 2020 Mar;86(1):e102. doi: 10.1002/cpcb.102. PubMed PMID: 32031760; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7008778.

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Bidone TC, Skeeters AV, Oakes PW, Voth GA. Multiscale model of integrin adhesion assembly. PLoS Comput Biol. 2019 Jun;15(6):e1007077. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007077. eCollection 2019 Jun. PubMed PMID: 31163027; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6568411.

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Barger SR, Reilly NS, Shutova MS, Li Q, Maiuri P, Heddleston JM, Mooseker MS, Flavell RA, Svitkina T, Oakes PW, Krendel M, Gauthier NC. Membrane-cytoskeletal crosstalk mediated by myosin-I regulates adhesion turnover during phagocytosis. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 19;10(1):1249. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09104-1. PubMed PMID: 30890704; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6425032.

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Finegan TM, Na D, Cammarota C, Skeeters AV, Nádasi TJ, Dawney NS, Fletcher AG, Oakes PW, Bergstralh DT. Tissue tension and not interphase cell shape determines cell division orientation in the Drosophila follicular epithelium. EMBO J. 2019 Feb 1;38(3). doi: 10.15252/embj.2018100072. Epub 2018 Nov 26. PubMed PMID: 30478193; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6356066.

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Seara DS, Yadav V, Linsmeier I, Tabatabai AP, Oakes PW, Tabei SMA, Banerjee S, Murrell MP. Entropy production rate is maximized in non-contractile actomyosin. Nat Commun. 2018 Nov 23;9(1):4948. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07413-5. PubMed PMID: 30470750; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6251913.

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Oakes PW, Fowell DJ. CCR7 fuels and LFA-1 grips. Nat Immunol. 2018 Jun;19(6):516-518. doi: 10.1038/s41590-018-0118-y. PubMed PMID: 29777210; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6296229.

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Oakes PW. Balancing forces in migration. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2018 Oct;54:43-49. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2018.04.006. Epub 2018 May 23. Review. PubMed PMID: 29723736; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6207467.

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Oakes PW, Bidone TC, Beckham Y, Skeeters AV, Ramirez-San Juan GR, Winter SP, Voth GA, Gardel ML. Lamellipodium is a myosin-independent mechanosensor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Mar 13;115(11):2646-2651. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715869115. Epub 2018 Feb 27. PubMed PMID: 29487208; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5856528.

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Fessenden TB, Beckham Y, Perez-Neut M, Ramirez-San Juan G, Chourasia AH, Macleod KF, Oakes PW, Gardel ML. Dia1-dependent adhesions are required by epithelial tissues to initiate invasion. J Cell Biol. 2018 Apr 2;217(4):1485-1502. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201703145. Epub 2018 Feb 5. PubMed PMID: 29437785; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5881494.

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Oakes PW, Wagner E, Brand CA, Probst D, Linke M, Schwarz US, Glotzer M, Gardel ML. Optogenetic control of RhoA reveals zyxin-mediated elasticity of stress fibres. Nat Commun. 2017 Jun 12;8:15817. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15817. PubMed PMID: 28604737; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5477492.

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Quillen A, Askari H, Kelley D, Friedmann T, Oakes P. A coin vibrational motor swimming at low Reynolds number. Regular and Chaotic Dynamics. 2017 March; 21(7-8):902-917. doi: 10.1134/S1560354716070121.

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Hissa B, Oakes PW, Pontes B, Ramírez-San Juan G, Gardel ML. Cholesterol depletion impairs contractile machinery in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. Sci Rep. 2017 Mar 3;7:43764. doi: 10.1038/srep43764. PubMed PMID: 28256617; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5335656.

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Ramirez-San Juan GR, Oakes PW, Gardel ML. Contact guidance requires spatial control of leading-edge protrusion. Mol Biol Cell. 2017 Apr 15;28(8):1043-1053. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E16-11-0769. Epub 2017 Feb 22. PubMed PMID: 28228548; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5391181.

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Linsmeier I, Banerjee S, Oakes PW, Jung W, Kim T, Murrell MP. Disordered actomyosin networks are sufficient to produce cooperative and telescopic contractility. Nat Commun. 2016 Aug 25;7:12615. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12615. PubMed PMID: 27558758; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5007339.

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Bridges AA, Jentzsch MS, Oakes PW, Occhipinti P, Gladfelter AS. Micron-scale plasma membrane curvature is recognized by the septin cytoskeleton. J Cell Biol. 2016 Apr 11;213(1):23-32. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201512029. Epub 2016 Apr 4. PubMed PMID: 27044896; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4828694.

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Gardel M, Oakes P. Measuring Cell Mechanics. Colloquium Series on Quantitative Cell Biology. 2015; 2(1):1-75. doi: 10.4199/C00137ED1V01Y201508QCB003.

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Murrell M, Oakes PW, Lenz M, Gardel ML. Forcing cells into shape: the mechanics of actomyosin contractility. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2015 Aug;16(8):486-98. doi: 10.1038/nrm4012. Epub 2015 Jul 1. Review. PubMed PMID: 26130009; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7443980.

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Soiné JR, Brand CA, Stricker J, Oakes PW, Gardel ML, Schwarz US. Model-based traction force microscopy reveals differential tension in cellular actin bundles. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Mar;11(3):e1004076. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004076. eCollection 2015 Mar. PubMed PMID: 25748431; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4352062.

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Cetera M, Ramirez-San Juan GR, Oakes PW, Lewellyn L, Fairchild MJ, Tanentzapf G, Gardel ML, Horne-Badovinac S. Epithelial rotation promotes the global alignment of contractile actin bundles during Drosophila egg chamber elongation. Nat Commun. 2014 Nov 21;5:5511. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6511. PubMed PMID: 25413675; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4241503.

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Oakes PW, Banerjee S, Marchetti MC, Gardel ML. Geometry regulates traction stresses in adherent cells. Biophys J. 2014 Aug 19;107(4):825-33. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.06.045. PubMed PMID: 25140417; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4142236.

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Oakes PW, Gardel ML. Stressing the limits of focal adhesion mechanosensitivity. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2014 Oct;30:68-73. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2014.06.003. Epub 2014 Jul 5. Review. PubMed PMID: 24998185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4459577.