Tumor Stiffness Is Unrelated to Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation in Cancer Cells

Hui-Jun Yu; Leonid A. Serebryannyy; Madeline Fry; Madelyne Greene; Olga Chernaya; Wen-Yang Hu; Teng-Leong Chew; Nadim Mahmud; Shrihari S. Kadkol; Sarah Glover; Gail Prins; Zuzana Strakova; Primal de Lanerolle

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079776

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Tumor Stiffness Is Unrelated to Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation in Cancer Cells

Hui-Jun Yu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui-Jun Yu, Leonid A. Serebryannyy

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Leonid A. Serebryannyy ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui-Jun Yu, Leonid A. Serebryannyy

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Madeline Fry,

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Madelyne Greene,

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Olga Chernaya,

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Wen-Yang Hu,

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Teng-Leong Chew,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Nadim Mahmud,

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Shrihari S. Kadkol,

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Sarah Glover,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Gail Prins,

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Zuzana Strakova,

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Primal de Lanerolle

* E-mail: primal@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Tumor Stiffness Is Unrelated to Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation in Cancer Cells

Hui-Jun Yu,
Leonid A. Serebryannyy,
Madeline Fry,
Madelyne Greene,
Olga Chernaya,
Wen-Yang Hu,
Teng-Leong Chew,
Nadim Mahmud,
Shrihari S. Kadkol,
Sarah Glover

Published: November 4, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079776

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