Featured Articles
Each month we showcase exciting new cell migration articles from the literature.
July 2008
Notch signalling: The long road to the aorta
Standfirst
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)