Featured Articles
Each month we showcase exciting new cell migration articles from the literature. Access to featured primary research articles from journals in the Nature family is free for three months.
June 2005
Adhesion disassembly: a dynamin disappearing act
Standfirst
Gregg Gundersen and colleagues report the development of a new model system for watching adhesion disassembly, and reveal that a distinct pathway is used compared with assembly — one that requires dynamin.
Original research paper: Nature Cell Biol 7, 581-590 (2005)
A move in the right direction
Standfirst
mRNAs encoding the individual components of the Arp2/3 complex, important for actin nucleation, are targeted to protrusions at the leading edge of migrating cells, and thereby provide an efficient means to generate this key complex locally.
Original research paper: J. Cell Sci. 118, 2425-2433 (2005)