T. Otani

Mechanical transapical coupling of endometrial epithelial cells during implantation

The paper demonstrates mechanical coupling between epithelial cells at apical-apical surfaces during implantation, mediated by extracellular matrix and tight junction molecules.

Effective mechanical potential of cell-cell interaction in tissues harboring cavity and in cell sheet toward morphogenesis

The paper evaluates an image-based method for inferring cell-cell interaction potentials in tissues with cavities and cell sheets, showing it can reproduce morphological structures.

Tight junction membrane proteins regulate the mechanical resistance of the apical junctional complex

This study shows that tight junction membrane proteins regulate the mechanical resistance of apical junctions in epithelial cells by maintaining ZO-1 molecule organization.

Effective mechanical potential of cell-cell interaction explains three-dimensional morphologies during early embryogenesis

The paper develops a method to infer mechanical forces of cell-cell interactions and shows that quantitative differences in effective pairwise potentials explain morphological differences in early embryos.

Reciprocal regulation between cell mechanics and ZO-1 guides tight junction assembly and epithelial morphogenesis

This study shows that ZO-1 regulates cell mechanics and tight junction assembly, with reciprocal effects on epithelial morphogenesis and junction integrity.

Atg39 links and deforms the outer and inner nuclear membranes in selective autophagy of the nucleus

This study shows Atg39 links outer and inner nuclear membranes and drives NE deformation to generate NDVs in nucleophagy.

Angulin-1 seals tricellular contacts independently of tricellulin and claudins

This study shows angulin-1 is essential for sealing tricellular contacts independently of tricellulin and claudins in MDCK II cells.