Integrating adhesion, protrusion, and contraction during cell migration.

Schwartz, Martin A; Horwitz, Alan Rick · Cell · 2006

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Abstract

Cell migration is fastest when the strength of the adhesion between the cell and the substrate is neither too strong nor too weak. In this issue of Cell, reveal how adhesion and cytoskeletal dynamics are integrated to optimize migration speed.

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