Jeremy S Logue, Alexander X Cartagena-Rivera ... Clare M Waterman
Eps8, a specific effector of oncogenic signaling, organizes the cortical actin cytoskeleton of cancer cells to promote mechanical properties that favor a newly identified mode of confined, adhesion-independent cell migration.
Yelena Y Bernadskaya, Haicen Yue ... Alex Mogilner
The migrating pair of cardiac progenitors in the chordate Ciona robusta is the simplest possible supracellular cell collective whose organization helps them overcome resistance from surrounding embryonic tissues during cell migration.
Amrutha Patkunarajah, Jeffrey H Stear ... Kate Poole
A novel mechanoelectrical transduction pathway can regulate the interactions of melanoma cells and their surrounding microenvironment, impacting both migration and cell dissociation from organotypic spheroids.
Macrophages use integrin-dependent 3D movement and cell protrusiveness, which control cell motility and space exploration as a prerequisite for optimal clearance of particles and dead cells by macrophage networks.
Julian JA Hoving, Elizabeth Harford-Wright ... Alison C Lloyd
N-cadherin and Slit2/3/Robo interactions provide the outward force to drive collective Schwann cell migration during nerve regeneration, identifying a dual role for N-cadherin in both adhesion and repulsion processes during Schwann cell collective migration.
Francesco Andreata, Marc Clément ... Giuseppina Caligiuri
CD31 plays a pivotal role in neutrophil migration to inflamed sites by localizing to the uropod and promoting effective actin/integrin polarization and detachment, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms underlying extravasation and inflammation response.
The upregulation of TLN1 contributes to the metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), and a small-molecule C67399 was screened for blocking TLN1 and integrin β1 may hold promise for the treatment of TNBC.
Calcium influx stimulates formation of ER/plasma membrane contacts adjacent to focal adhesions, and lipid transfer at these sites is required for adhesion disassembly during cell migration.