Welcome to the July 2008 Cell Migration Update, your one-stop resource for news, highlights and research on cell migration.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Specially written Editor's reviews of the hottest new articles
Notch signalling: The long road to the aorta
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Notch signalling drives the specification of endothelial precursors in somites and directs their migration toward the dorsal aorta, thus resulting in its three-dimensional assembly.
Original research paper: Dev. Cell 14, 890-901 (2008)
Actin nucleation: To CAP it off
Standfirst
The capping protein favours actin nucleation by the actin-related protein-2/3 complex thus increasing the rate of actin-based motility.
Original research paper: Cell 133, 841-851 (2008)
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Synopses of important recent articles
Cell morphology: Breaking the spatial code
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A new quantitative physical model explaining cell shape and movement has been developed based on measurements of motile fish keratocytes.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9, 500 (2008)
Metastasis: Regressing to self-renewal
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New findings show that the epithelial-mesenchymal transition confers stem cell-like properties as well as being adopted by tumour cells to acquire malignant traits such as survival and invasiveness.
Nature Reviews Cancer 8, 483 (2008)
NEWS
The latest news selected from the CMC, Nature News and journals from the Nature family
Actin treadmilling: G-actin diffusion or local recycling?
Signalling in space: Coupling at the plasma membrane.
Cancer reveals cruel trick
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Some tumours may stimulate the growth of distant cancers within the body.
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