Please enjoy our quarterly highlighted articles from Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), which were noted by reviewers and editors to be of particular interest and significance.

Today’s highlights come from MBoC’s Special Issue on Forces On and Within Cells.

Nonmuscle myosin IIA (NMIIA) regulates anisotropic cell tension to maintain the hexagonal packing of mouse lens meridional row cells
Authors: Sadia T. Islam, Yiwen Tang, Heather Boliver, Dapeng Bi, and Velia M. Fowler

PRC1 resists microtubule sliding in two distinct resistive modes due to variations in the separation between overlapping microtubules
Authors: Daniel Steckhahn, Shane A. Fiorenza, Ellinor Tai, Scott Forth, Peter R. Kramer, and Meredith Betterton

Lamin B1 and LAP2β resist cytoskeletal force to maintain lamin A/C meshwork organization and preserve nuclear integrity
Authors: Yewande Alabi, Vasilisa Aksenova, Alexei Arnaoutov, Harold Marin, Mary Dasso, and Abigail Buchwalter

Nonmuscle myosin 2 without an assembly competence domain can incorporate into established filaments in cells
Authors: Kehan Wu, Hiral Patel, Huini Wu, Sasha K. Demeulenaere, Vraj Patel, Margaret Utgaard, Melissa A. Quintanilla, Margaret A. Bennett, Stefano Sala, and Jordan R. Beach

Force-insensitive myosin-I enhances endocytosis robustness through actin network–scale collective ratcheting
Authors: Michael A. Ferrin, Ross T.A. Pedersen, David G. Drubin, and Matthew Akamatsu

Delamination of epithelia induced by air–liquid interfaces
Authors: Chunzi Liu, and Gerald G. Fuller

History of hypoxia exposure aids future cell invasion according to cell type and collagen density
Authors: José A. Almeida, Diego B. Avila, Gregory D. Longmore, and Amit Pathak

Recovery of plasma membrane tension after a hyperosmotic shock
Authors: Jasmine Phan, Malan Silva, Robin Kohlmeyer, Romy Ruethemann, Lincoln Gay, Erik Jorgensen, and Markus Babst

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