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 2007
Kon-tiki: A fly's guide for muscle building
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The transmembrane protein Kon-tiki promotes directed migration of myotubes and is essential to initiate the establishment of stable connections with their target tendon cells.
Original research paper: Dev. Cell 12, 751-766 (2007)
Phospholipase C: Reversing polarity
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Phospholipase C activity is essential for polarity reversal and cell migration away from a chemotactic source in Dictyostelium discoideum.
Original research paper: J. Cell Biol. 177, 579-585 (2007)