Volume 30, No 10, Oct 2020

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 30 Issue 10, October 2020: 829-830

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

RNA and the PIEZO force sensor

David J. Beech^* , Laeticia Lichtenstein

School of Medicine, LIGHT Building, University of Leeds, Clarendon Way, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Correspondence: David J. Beech(d.j.beech@leeds.ac.uk)

The discovery of the PIEZO force-sensing ion channels was an important advance in recent years, leading to exciting new knowledge and fields of inquiry. An interesting article published by Sugisawa et al. in Cell unexpectedly suggests PIEZO1 channels as RNA rather than force sensors in enterochromaffin cells, with important implications for microbiome response and gut motility mediated by 5-HT.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-020-00413-5

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