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Marchesi S, Guidolin C, Massey AE, Lemahieu G, Lavagnino Z, Beznoussenko GV, Mironov AA, Green BJ, Allievi E, Martini E, Magni S, Ghisleni A, Lomazzi C, Benvenuto AF, Schertel A, van Faassen DA, Freddi S, Bertalot G, Parazzoli D, Maiuri P, Mapelli M, Pece S, Sigismund S, Gauthier NC, Cavalcanti-Adam EA, Cartagena-Rivera AX, Giavazzi F, Scita G, Disanza A

Mechanisms of active wetting and fluidification in epithelial cell collectives.

Nat Mater 2026; . doi: 10.1038/s41563-026-02553-2

Panciera T, Citron A, Di Biagio D, Battilana G, Gandin A, Giulitti S, Forcato M, Bicciato S, Panzetta V, Fusco S, Azzolin L, Totaro A, Tos APD, Fassan M, Vindigni V, Bassetto F, Rosato A, Brusatin G, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

Publisher Correction: Reprogramming normal cells into tumour precursors requires ECM stiffness and oncogene-mediated changes of cell mechanical properties.

Nat Mater 2020; 475. doi: 10.1038/s41563-020-0644-5

Makkieh M, Passeri AA, Lazzari D, Marchesi S, Disanza A, Salem RKA, Bonacci F, Mazzella C, Martini E, Tonani M, Donati L, Bellini E, Abdo H, Pineau J, Magni S, Orsenigo F, Piel M, Fioretto D, Martino S, Mattarelli M, Scita G, Green BJ, Caponi S

Brillouin Microscopy of Breast tumor Spheroids On-a-Chip: Mechanical and Transcriptional Responses to Microfluidic-Induced Rapid Deformations.

Adv Sci (Weinh) 2026; e13153. doi: 10.1002/advs.202513153

Panciera T, Citron A, Di Biagio D, Battilana G, Gandin A, Giulitti S, Forcato M, Bicciato S, Panzetta V, Fusco S, Azzolin L, Totaro A, Dei Tos AP, Fassan M, Vindigni V, Bassetto F, Rosato A, Brusatin G, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

Reprogramming normal cells into tumour precursors requires ECM stiffness and oncogene-mediated changes of cell mechanical properties.

Nat Mater 2020; 797-806. doi: 10.1038/s41563-020-0615-x

Chang L, Azzolin L, Di Biagio D, Zanconato F, Battilana G, Lucon Xiccato R, Aragona M, Giulitti S, Panciera T, Gandin A, Sigismondo G, Krijgsveld J, Fassan M, Brusatin G, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

The SWI/SNF complex is a mechanoregulated inhibitor of YAP and TAZ.

Nature 2018; 265-269. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0658-1

Totaro A, Zhuang Q, Panciera T, Battilana G, Azzolin L, Brumana G, Gandin A, Brusatin G, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

Cell phenotypic plasticity requires autophagic flux driven by YAP/TAZ mechanotransduction.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 17848-17857. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1908228116

Zanconato F, Battilana G, Forcato M, Filippi L, Azzolin L, Manfrin A, Quaranta E, Di Biagio D, Sigismondo G, Guzzardo V, Lejeune P, Haendler B, Krijgsveld J, Fassan M, Bicciato S, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

Transcriptional addiction in cancer cells is mediated by YAP/TAZ through BRD4.

Nat Med 2018; 1599-1610. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0158-8

Petti E, Di Vito S, Dinami R, Porru M, Marchesi S, Lohuis J, Zizza P, Iachettini S, Salvati E, D'Angelo C, Rizzo A, Maresca C, Ascione F, Di Benedetto A, Buglioni S, Sacconi A, Ostano P, Li Q, Stoppacciaro A, Leonetti C, van Rheenen J, Maiuri P, Scita G, Biroccio A

TRF2 interaction with nuclear envelope is required for cell polarization and metastasis in triple negative breast cancer.

Cell Death Dis 2025; 224. doi: 10.1038/s41419-025-07415-4

Marchesi S, Guidolin C, Massey AE, Lemahieu G, Lavagnino Z, Beznoussenko GV, Mironov AA, Green B, Allievi E, Martini E, Magni S, Ghisleni A, Lomazzi C, Benvenuto AF, Schertel A, Parazzoli D, Maiuri P, Sigismund S, Gauthier N, Cavalcanti-Adam AE, Cartagena-Rivera AX, Giavazzi F, Scita G, Disanza A

Biophysical and Molecular mechanisms that control active wetting and tissue fluidification in epithelial tissues.

Res Sq 2025; . doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6008502/v1

Llopis I, Pagonabarraga I, Lagomarsino MC, Lowe CP

Sedimentation of pairs of hydrodynamically interacting semiflexible filaments.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2007; 061901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.061901

Panciera T, Azzolin L, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

Mechanobiology of YAP and TAZ in physiology and disease.

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2017; 758-770. doi: 10.1038/nrm.2017.87

Panciera T, Azzolin L, Di Biagio D, Totaro A, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

De Novo Generation of Somatic Stem Cells by YAP/TAZ.

J Vis Exp 2018; . doi: 10.3791/57462

Yui S, Azzolin L, Maimets M, Pedersen MT, Fordham RP, Hansen SL, Larsen HL, Guiu J, Alves MRP, Rundsten CF, Johansen JV, Li Y, Madsen CD, Nakamura T, Watanabe M, Nielsen OH, Schweiger PJ, Piccolo S, Jensen KB

YAP/TAZ-Dependent Reprogramming of Colonic Epithelium Links ECM Remodeling to Tissue Regeneration.

Cell Stem Cell 2018; 35-49.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2017.11.001

Bassetti F, Lagomarsino MC, Bassetti B, Jona P

Random networks tossing biased coins.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2007; 056109. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056109

Totaro A, Castellan M, Battilana G, Zanconato F, Azzolin L, Giulitti S, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

YAP/TAZ link cell mechanics to Notch signalling to control epidermal stem cell fate.

Nat Commun 2017; 15206. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15206

Hayashi S, Morimoto M, Inomata H, Piccolo S

Size in development.

Dev Growth Differ 2017; 3. doi: 10.1111/dgd.12339

Panciera T, Azzolin L, Fujimura A, Di Biagio D, Frasson C, Bresolin S, Soligo S, Basso G, Bicciato S, Rosato A, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

Induction of Expandable Tissue-Specific Stem/Progenitor Cells through Transient Expression of YAP/TAZ.

Cell Stem Cell 2016; 725-737. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.08.009

Zaccarin M, Bosello-Travain V, Di Paolo ML, Falda M, Maiorino M, Miotto G, Piccolo S, Roveri A, Ursini F, Venerando R, Toppo S

Redox status in a model of cancer stem cells.

Arch Biochem Biophys 2017; 120-128. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2016.09.002

Gritenaite D, Princz LN, Szakal B, Bantele SC, Wendeler L, Schilbach S, Habermann BH, Matos J, Lisby M, Branzei D, Pfander B

A cell cycle-regulated Slx4-Dpb11 complex promotes the resolution of DNA repair intermediates linked to stalled replication.

Genes Dev 2014; 1604-19. doi: 10.1101/gad.240515.114

Bonci D, Coppola V, Patrizii M, Addario A, Cannistraci A, Francescangeli F, Pecci R, Muto G, Collura D, Bedini R, Zeuner A, Valtieri M, Sentinelli S, Benassi MS, Gallucci M, Carlini P, Piccolo S, De Maria R

A microRNA code for prostate cancer metastasis.

Oncogene 2016; 1180-92. doi: 10.1038/onc.2015.176

Bartucci M, Dattilo R, Moriconi C, Pagliuca A, Mottolese M, Federici G, Benedetto AD, Todaro M, Stassi G, Sperati F, Amabile MI, Pilozzi E, Patrizii M, Biffoni M, Maugeri-Saccà M, Piccolo S, De Maria R

TAZ is required for metastatic activity and chemoresistance of breast cancer stem cells.

Oncogene 2015; 681-90. doi: 10.1038/onc.2014.5

Zanconato F, Forcato M, Battilana G, Azzolin L, Quaranta E, Bodega B, Rosato A, Bicciato S, Cordenonsi M, Piccolo S

Genome-wide association between YAP/TAZ/TEAD and AP-1 at enhancers drives oncogenic growth.

Nat Cell Biol 2015; 1218-27. doi: 10.1038/ncb3216

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