Prof Martin Knight
BEng, MSc, PhD, FHEA
All Publications
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2026
- Human coronary artery organ‐chip with circulating immune cells recapitulates anti‐inflammatory effect of pulsatile wall strain
Hou Y, Ziakas G, Hopkins T, Wang W, Screen HRC, Knight MM
Interdisciplinary Medicine, Wiley
10-03-2026
2025
- Multi-omics qualification of an organ-on-a-chip model of osteolytic bone metastasis
Castro NM, Nolan J, Maniati E, Agrawal A, Gauthier V, Pearce OMT, Verbruggen SW, Knight MM
Acta Biomaterialia, Elsevier vol. 209, 362-374.
13-11-2025 - HUMAN JOINT-ON-A-CHIP: MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION TO STUDY PATIENT-SPECIFIC CROSSTALK
Hopkins T, Thompson CL, Terrazas DA, Wright KT, Screen HR, Knight MM
Orthopaedic Proceedings, British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery vol. 107-B (SUPP_9), 33-33.
22-10-2025 - Pulsatile low shear stress increases susceptibility to endothelial inflammation via upregulation of IFT and activation of YAP
Hou Y, Screen HRC, Knight MM
Apl Bioengineering, Aip Publishing vol. 9 (2)
01-06-2025 - Engineering growth factor gradients to drive spatiotemporal tissue patterning in organ-on-a-chip systems
Hopkins T, Midha S, Grossemy S, Screen HRC, Wann AKT, Knight MM
Journal of Tissue Engineering, Sage Publications vol. 16
18-04-2025
2024
- Nonlinear Stress‐Induced Transformations in Collagen Fibrillar Organization, Disorder and Strain Mechanisms in the Bone‐Cartilage Unit
Badar W, Inamdar SR, Fratzl P, Snow T, Terrill NJ, Knight MM, Gupta HS
Advanced Science, Wiley vol. 12 (1)
11-11-2024 - Air Pollution and Osteoporosis
Allen O, Knight MM, Verbruggen SW
Current Osteoporosis Reports, Springer Science and Business Media Llc
20-09-2024 - A Self‐Assembled 3D Model Demonstrates How Stiffness Educates Tumor Cell Phenotypes and Therapy Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer
Liu Y, Okesola BO, de la Peña DO, Li W, Lin M, Trabulo S, Tatari M, Lawlor RT et al.
Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley vol. 13 (17)
22-03-2024
2023
- A Novel Primary Cilium‐Mediated Mechanism Through which Osteocytes Regulate Metastatic Behavior of Both Breast and Prostate Cancer Cells
Verbruggen SW, Nolan J, Duffy MP, Pearce OMT, Jacobs CR, Knight MM
Advanced Science, Wiley vol. 11 (2), 2305842-2305842.
15-11-2023 - Human vascularised synovium-on-a-chip: a mechanically stimulated, microfluidic model to investigate synovial inflammation and monocyte recruitment
Thompson CL, Hopkins T, Bevan C, Screen HRC, Wright KT, Knight MM
Biomedical Materials, IOP Publishing vol. 18 (6)
10-10-2023 - Organ-on-a-Chip and Microfluidic Platforms for Oncology in the UK
Nolan J, Pearce OMT, Screen HRC, Knight MM, Verbruggen SW
Cancers, Mdpi vol. 15 (3)
19-01-2023
2022
- YAP activation inhibits inflammatory signalling and cartilage breakdown associated with reduced primary cilia expression
Meng H, Fu S, Ferreira MB, Hou Y, Pearce OM, Gavara N, Knight MM
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Elsevier vol. 31 (5), 600-612.
08-11-2022 - Mechanostimulation of breast myoepithelial cells induces functional changes associated with DCIS progression to invasion
Hayward M-K, Allen MD, Gomm JJ, Goulding I, Thompson CL, Knight MM, Marshall JF, Jones JL
Npj Breast Cancer, Springer Nature vol. 8 (1)
20-09-2022 - Collagen pre-strain discontinuity at the bone—Cartilage interface
Badar W, Ali H, Brooker ON, Newham E, Snow T, Terrill NJ, Tozzi G, Fratzl P et al.
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 17 (9)
15-09-2022 - Oscillations of the circadian clock protein, BMAL-1, align to daily cycles of mechanical stimuli: a novel means to integrate biological time within predictive in vitro model systems
Heywood HK, Gardner L, Knight MM, Lee DA
In Vitro Models, Springer Nature vol. 1 (6), 405-412.
01-01-2022
2021
- Reversible changes in the 3D collagen fibril architecture during cyclic loading of healthy and degraded cartilage
Inamdar SR, Prévost S, Terrill NJ, Knight MM, Gupta HS
Acta Biomaterialia, Elsevier vol. 136, 314-326.
24-09-2021 - Mechanical Stimulation Modulates Osteocyte Regulation of Cancer Cell Phenotype
Verbruggen SW, Thompson CL, Duffy MP, Lunetto S, Nolan J, Pearce OMT, Jacobs CR, Knight MM
Cancers, Mdpi vol. 13 (12)
10-06-2021 - A human multi-cellular model shows how platelets drive production of diseased extracellular matrix and tissue invasion
Malacrida B, Nichols S, Maniati E, Jones R, Delanie-Smith R, Roozitalab R, Tyler EJ, Thomas M et al.
Iscience, Elsevier vol. 24 (6)
29-05-2021 - Modelling TGFβR and Hh pathway regulation of prognostic matrisome molecules in ovarian cancer
Delaine-Smith RM, Maniati E, Malacrida B, Nichols S, Roozitalab R, Jones RR, Lecker LSM, Pearce OMT et al.
Iscience, Elsevier vol. 24 (6)
29-05-2021 - Polycystin-2 Is Required for Chondrocyte Mechanotransduction and Traffics to the Primary Cilium in Response to Mechanical Stimulation
Thompson CL, McFie M, Chapple JP, Beales P, Knight MM
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Mdpi vol. 22 (9)
21-04-2021 - Corrigendum to Sub-toxic levels of cobalt ions impair mechanostranduction via HDAC6-depedent primary cilia shortening
Wu H, Wang Z, Liu S, Meng H, Liu S, Shelton JC, Thompson CL, Fu S et al.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Elsevier vol. 555
16-04-2021 - Corrigendum: Mechanical Stimulation: A Crucial Element of Organ-on-Chip Models
Thompson CL, Fu S, Heywood HK, Knight MM, Thorpe SD
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers vol. 9
18-02-2021 - Modelling TGFβR and Hh pathway regulation of prognostic matrisome molecules in ovarian cancer
Delaine-Smith RM, Maniati E, Malacrida B, Nichols S, Roozitalab R, Jones RR, Lecker L, Pearce OMT et al.
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
02-02-2021 - Activation of TRPV4 by mechanical, osmotic or pharmaceutical stimulation is anti-inflammatory blocking IL-1β mediated articular cartilage matrix destruction
Fu S, Meng H, Inamdar S, Das B, Gupta H, Wang W, Thompson CL, Knight MM
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage vol. 29 (1), 89-99.
01-01-2021
2020
- Mechanical Stimulation: A Crucial Element of Organ-on-Chip Models
Thompson CL, Fu S, Heywood HK, Knight MM, Thorpe SD
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers Media Sa vol. 8
10-12-2020 - Solution-Processed Epitaxial Growth of Arbitrary Surface Nanopatterns on Hybrid Perovskite Monocrystalline Thin Films
Zhang J, Guo Q, Li X, Li C, Wu K, Abrahams I, Yan H, Knight MM et al.
Acs Nano, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 14 (9), 11029-11039.
27-08-2020
2019
- Sub-toxic levels of Co2+ are anti-inflammatory and protect cartilage from degradation caused by IL-1β
Fu S, Meng H, Freer F, Kwon J, Shelton JC, Knight MM
Clinical Biomechanics, Elsevier vol. 79
24-12-2019 - Ciliary exclusion of Polycystin-2 promotes kidney cystogenesis in an autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease model
Walker RV, Keynton JL, Grimes DT, Sreekumar V, Williams DJ, Esapa C, Wu D, Knight MM et al.
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 10 (1)
06-09-2019 - Proteoglycan degradation mimics static compression by altering the natural gradients in fibrillar organisation in cartilage
Inamdar SR, Barbieri E, Terrill NJ, Knight MM, Gupta HS
Acta Biomaterialia, Elsevier vol. 97, 437-450.
30-07-2019 - Transglutaminase-2 Mediates the Biomechanical Properties of the Colorectal Cancer Tissue Microenvironment that Contribute to Disease Progression
Delaine-Smith R, Wright N, Hanley C, Hanwell R, Bhome R, Bullock M, Drifka C, Eliceiri K et al.
Cancers, Mdpi vol. 11 (5)
21-05-2019 - Mechanical loading inhibits cartilage inflammatory signalling via an HDAC6 and IFT-dependent mechanism regulating primary cilia elongation
Fu S, Thompson CL, Ali A, Wang W, Chapple JP, Mitchison HM, Beales PL, Wann AKT et al.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Elsevier vol. 27 (7), 1064-1074.
25-03-2019 - An in vitro investigation of the inflammatory response to the strain amplitudes which occur during high frequency oscillation ventilation and conventional mechanical ventilation
Harris C, Thorpe SD, Rushwan S, Wang W, Thompson CL, Peacock JL, Knight MM, Gooptu B et al.
Journal of Biomechanics, Elsevier vol. 88, 186-189.
22-03-2019 - Nanoscale Mapping Reveals Functional Differences in Ion Channels Populating the Membrane of Primary Cilia
Torres-Pérez JV, Naeem H, Thompson CL, Knight MM, Novak P
Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, Cell Physiol Biochem Press vol. 54 (1), 15-26.
10-01-2019 - Oncometabolite induced primary cilia loss in pheochromocytoma
O’Toole SM, Watson DS, Novoselova TV, Romano LEL, King PJ, Bradshaw TY, Thompson CL, Knight MM et al.
Endocrine Related Cancer vol. 26 (1), 165-180.
01-01-2019
2018
- Mechanical loading induces primary cilia disassembly in tendon cells via TGFβ and HDAC6
Rowson DT, Shelton JC, Screen HRC, Knight MM
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 8 (1)
23-07-2018 - Cobalt ions stimulate a fibrotic response through matrix remodelling, fibroblast contraction and release of pro-fibrotic signals from macrophages
Xu J, Nyga A, Li W, Zhang X, Gavara N, Knight MM, Shelton JC
European Cells and Materials vol. 36, 142-155.
01-07-2018 - Tissue stiffening promotes keratinocyte proliferation through activation of epidermal growth factor signaling
Kenny FN, Drymoussi Z, Delaine-Smith R, Kao AP, Laly AC, Knight MM, Philpott MP, Connelly JT
Journal of Cell Science, The Company of Biologists vol. 131 (10)
15-05-2018 - Cobalt (II) ions and nanoparticles induce macrophage retention by ROS-mediated down-regulation of RhoA expression
Xu J, Yang J, Nyga A, Ehteramyan M, Moraga A, Wu Y, Zeng L, Knight MM et al.
Acta Biomaterialia, Elsevier vol. 72, 434-446.
09-04-2018 - Deconstruction of a metastatic tumor microenvironment reveals a common matrix response in human cancers
Pearce OMT, Delaine-Smith RM, Maniati E, Nichols S, Wang J, Böhm S, Rajeeve V, Ullah D et al.
Cancer Discovery, American Association For Cancer Research (Aacr) vol. 8 (3)
01-03-2018
2017
- Chondrocyte expansion is associated with loss of primary cilia and disrupted hedgehog signalling
Thompson CL, Plant JC, Wann AK, Bishop CL, Novak P, Mitchison HM, Beales PL, Chapple JP et al.
Ecells & Materials, European Cells and Materials vol. 34, 128-141.
20-09-2017 - The Secret Life of Collagen: Temporal Changes in Nanoscale Fibrillar Pre-Strain and Molecular Organization during Physiological Loading of Cartilage
Inamdar SR, Knight DP, Terrill NJ, Karunaratne A, Cacho-Nerin F, Knight MM, Gupta HS
Acs Nano, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 11 (10), 9728-9737.
17-08-2017 - Topography of calcium phosphate ceramics regulates primary cilia length and TGF receptor recruitment associated with osteogenesis.
Zhang J, Dalbay MT, Luo X, Vrij E, Barbieri D, Moroni L, de Bruijn JD, van Blitterswijk CA et al.
Acta Biomater vol. 57, 487-497.
15-07-2017 - Reduced primary cilia length and altered Arl13b expression are associated with deregulated chondrocyte Hedgehog signaling in alkaptonuria
Thorpe SD, Gambassi S, Thompson CL, Chandrakumar C, Santucci A, Knight MM
Journal of Cellular Physiology, Wiley vol. 232 (9), 2407-2417.
31-03-2017 - Smoothened‐antagonists reverse homogentisic acid‐induced alterations of Hedgehog signaling and primary cilium length in alkaptonuria
Gambassi S, Geminiani M, Thorpe SD, Bernardini G, Millucci L, Braconi D, Orlandini M, Thompson CL et al.
Journal of Cellular Physiology, Wiley vol. 232 (11), 3103-3111.
29-03-2017
2016
- Zonal variation in primary cilia elongation correlates with localized biomechanical degradation in stress deprived tendon
Rowson D, Knight MM, Screen HRC
Journal of Orthopaedic Research®, Wiley vol. 34 (12), 2146-2153.
23-03-2016 - Experimental validation of a flat punch indentation methodology calibrated against unconfined compression tests for determination of soft tissue biomechanics
Delaine-Smith RM, Burney S, Balkwill FR, Knight MM
Journal of The Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Elsevier vol. 60, 401-415.
17-02-2016 - Lithium chloride modulates chondrocyte primary cilia and inhibits Hedgehog signaling
Thompson CL, Wiles A, Poole CA, Knight MM
Faseb Journal vol. 30 (2), 716-726.
01-02-2016
2015
- Differential effects of LifeAct-GFP and actin-GFP on cell mechanics assessed using micropipette aspiration
Sliogeryte K, Thorpe SD, Wang Z, Thompson CL, Gavara N, Knight MM
Journal of Biomechanics, Elsevier vol. 49 (2), 310-317.
29-12-2015 - Hedgehog signalling does not stimulate cartilage catabolism and is inhibited by Interleukin-1β
Thompson CL, Patel R, Kelly T-AN, Wann AKT, Hung CT, Chapple JP, Knight MM
Arthritis Research & Therapy vol. 17 (1)
24-12-2015 - Chondrocyte dedifferentiation increases cell stiffness by strengthening membrane-actin adhesion
Sliogeryte K, Botto L, Lee DA, Knight MM
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Elsevier vol. 24 (5), 912-920.
17-12-2015