Lab Publications

For older publications, please refer to Dr. Reinhart-King’s google scholar.

  • Matthew R. Zanotelli, Joseph P. Miller, Wenjun Wang, Ismael Ortiz, Elise Tahon, Francois Bordeleau, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Tension directs cancer cell migration over fiber alignment through energy minimization. Biomaterials. December 2024. 
  • Curtis T. Schunk, Wenjun Wang, Lindsey N. Sabo, Paul V. Taufalele, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Matrix stiffness increases energy efficiency of endothelial cells. Matrix Biology. November 2024. 
  • Anuja Jaganathan, Joshua Toth, Xingyu Chen, Ramin Basir, Laurent Pieuchot, Yihui Shen, Cynthia Reinhart-King, Vivek B. Shenoy. Mechano-metabolism of metastatic breast cancer cells in 2D and 3D microenvironments. October 2024.
  • Jian Zhang, Jenna A. Mosier, Yusheng Wu, Logan Waddle, Paul V. Taufalele, Wenjun Wang, Heng Sun, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Cellular energy cycle mediates an advection-Like forward cell flow to support collective invasion. Advanced Science. July 2024.
  • Jackie E. Bader, Melissa M. Wolf, Gian Luca Lupica-Tondo, Matthew Z. Madden, Bradley I. Reinfeld, Emily N. Arner, Emma S. Hathaway, KayLee K. Steiner, Gabriel A. Needle, Zaid Hatem, Madelyn D. Landis, Eden E. Faneuff, Amondrea Blackman, Elysa M. Wolf, Matthew A. Cottam, Xiang Ye, Madison E. Bates, Kyra Smart, Wenjun Wang, Laura V. Pinheiro, Anthos Christofides, DuPreez Smith, Vassiliki A. Boussiotis, Scott M. Haake, Kathryn E. Beckermann, Kathryn E. Wellen, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, C Henrique Serezani, Cheng-Han Lee, Christa Aubrey, Heidi Chen, W Kimryn Rathmell, Alyssa H. Hasty, Jeffrey C. Rathmell. Obesity induces PD-1 on macrophages to suppress anti-tumour immunity. Nature. June 2024. 
  • Wenjun Wang, Matthew R. Zanotelli, Lindsey N. Sabo, Emily D. Fabiano, Natalie M. Goldfield, Chloe Le, Elle P. Techasiriwan, Santiago Lopez, Emily D. Berestesky, Cynthia A Reinhart-King. Collagen density regulates tip–stalk cell rearrangement during angiogenesis via cellular bioenergetics. APL Bioengineering. June 2024. 
  • Korie A. Grayson, Joshua D. Greenlee, Lauren E. Himmel, Lauren A. Hapach, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, Michael R. King. Spatial distribution of tumor-associated macrophages in an orthotopic prostate cancer mouse model. Pathology and Oncology Research. April 2024.
  • Sarah Libring, Emily D. Berestesky, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. The movement of mitochondria in breast cancer: internal motility and intercellular transfer of mitochondria. Clinical & Experimental Metastasis. March 2024. 
  • Jenna A. Mosier, Emily D. Fabiano, Catherine M. Ludolph, Addison E. White, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Confinement primes cells for faster migration by polarizing active mitochondria. Nanoscale Advances. January 2024. 
  • Georgii Vasiukov, Yong Zou, Maria-Fernanda Senosain, Jamshedur S.M. Rahman, Sanja Antic, Katherine M. Young, Eric L. Grogan, Michael N. Kammer, Fabien Maldonado, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, Pierre P. Massion. Cancer-associated fibroblasts in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma correlate with tumor aggressiveness. Scientific Reports. October 2023. 
  • Lauren A. Hapach, Wenjun Wang, Samantha C. Schwager, Devika Pokhriyal, Emily D. Fabiano, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Phenotypically sorted highly and weakly migratory triple negative breast cancer cells exhibit migratory and metastatic commensalism. Breast Cancer Research. August 2023.
  • Katherine M Young, Cynthia A Reinhart-King. Cellular mechanosignaling for sensing and transducing matrix rigidity. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. August 2023. 
  • Madison E. Bates, Sarah Libring, Cynthia A. Reinhart‐King. Forces exerted and transduced by cancer‐associated fibroblasts during cancer progression.  Biology of the Cell. August 2023. 
  • Kayla F. Goliwas, Sarah Libring, Emily Berestesky, Shayan Gholizadeh, Samantha C. Schwager, Andra R. Frost, Thomas R. Gaborski, Jian Zhang, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Mitochondrial transfer from cancer-associated fibroblasts increases migration in aggressive breast cancer. Journal of Cell Science. July 2023. 
  • Paul V. Taufalele, Wenjun Wang, Alan J. Simmons, Austin N. Southard-Smith, Bob Chen, Joshua D. Greenlee, Michael R. King, Ken S. Lau, Duane C. Hassane, François Bordeleau, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Matrix stiffness enhances cancer-macrophage interactions and M2-like macrophage accumulation in the breast tumor microenvironment. Acta Biomaterialia. June 2023. 
  • Wenjun Wang, Paul V. Taufalele, Martial Millet, Kevin Homsy, Kyra Smart, Emily D. Berestesky, Curtis T. Schunk, Matthew M. Rowe, Francois Bordeleau, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Matrix stiffness regulates tumor cell intravasation through expression and ESRP1-mediated alternative splicing of MENA. Cell Reports. April 2023. 
  • Maria Lopez-Cavestany, Su Bin Hahn, Jacob M. Hope, Noah T. Reckhorn, Joshua D. Greenlee, Samantha C. Schwager, Jacob A. VanderBurgh, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, Michael R. King. Matrix stiffness induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition via Piezo1-regulated calcium flux in prostate cancer cells. iscience. April 2023. 
  • Jian Zhang, Jenna Mosier, Yusheng Wu, Paul Taufalele, Wenjun Wang, Heng Sun, Cynthia Reinhart-King. The entropy of cancer cell migration: Bioenergetics and cell proliferation support invasive migration in 3D. Biophysical Journal. February 2023. 
  • Jian Zhang, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King. Analysis of Energy-Driven Leader-Follower Hierarchy During Collective Cancer Cell Invasion. Cell Migration in Three Dimensions. January 2023.