Mechanisms and roles of podosomes and invadopodia

S Linder, P Cervero, R Eddy, J Condeelis - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell invasion into the surrounding extracellular matrix or across tissue boundaries and
endothelial barriers occurs in both physiological and pathological scenarios such as …

Actin dynamics in cell migration

M Schaks, G Giannone, K Rottner - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Cell migration is an essential process, both in unicellular organisms such as amoeba and as
individual or collective motility in highly developed multicellular organisms like mammals. It …

The matrix environmental and cell mechanical properties regulate cell migration and contribute to the invasive phenotype of cancer cells

CT Mierke - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The minimal structural unit of a solid tumor is a single cell or a cellular compartment such as
the nucleus. A closer look inside the cells reveals that there are functional compartments or …

[HTML][HTML] Endothelial cell-cell adhesion and signaling

C Cerutti, AJ Ridley - Experimental cell research, 2017 - Elsevier
Endothelial cells line blood vessels and provide a dynamic interface between the blood and
tissues. They remodel to allow leukocytes, fluid and small molecules to enter tissues during …

[HTML][HTML] Rho GTPase signalling in cell migration

AJ Ridley - Current opinion in cell biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Cells migrate in multiple different ways depending on their environment, which includes the
extracellular matrix composition, interactions with other cells, and chemical stimuli. For all …

The ways of actin: why tunneling nanotubes are unique cell protrusions

N Ljubojevic, JM Henderson, C Zurzolo - Trends in cell biology, 2021 - cell.com
Actin remodeling is at the heart of the response of cells to external or internal stimuli,
allowing a variety of membrane protrusions to form. Fifteen years ago, tunneling nanotubes …

Global treadmilling coordinates actin turnover and controls the size of actin networks

MF Carlier, S Shekhar - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2017 - nature.com
Various cellular processes (including cell motility) are driven by the regulated, polarized
assembly of actin filaments into distinct force-producing arrays of defined size and …

The role of actin dynamics and actin‐binding proteins expression in epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition and its association with cancer progression and evaluation …

M Izdebska, W Zielińska, D Grzanka… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Metastasis causes death of 90% of cancer patients, so it is the most significant issue
associated with cancer disease. Thus, it is no surprise that many researchers are trying to …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic actin cytoskeleton: structure, functions, and regulations

A Konietzny, J Bär, M Mikhaylova - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Actin is a versatile and ubiquitous cytoskeletal protein that plays a major role in both the
establishment and the maintenance of neuronal polarity. For a long time, the most prominent …

Cytoskeletal control of B cell responses to antigens

P Tolar - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2017 - nature.com
The actin cytoskeleton is essential for cell mechanics and has increasingly been implicated
in the regulation of cell signalling. In B cells, the actin cytoskeleton is extensively coupled to …