Mechanisms of 3D cell migration

KM Yamada, M Sixt - Nature Reviews molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Cell migration is essential for physiological processes as diverse as development, immune
defence and wound healing. It is also a hallmark of cancer malignancy. Thousands of …

Cell motility in cancer invasion and metastasis: insights from simple model organisms

CH Stuelten, CA Parent, DJ Montell - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Metastasis remains the greatest challenge in the clinical management of cancer. Cell motility
is a fundamental and ancient cellular behaviour that contributes to metastasis and is …

The cytoskeleton—a complex interacting meshwork

T Hohmann, F Dehghani - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
The cytoskeleton of animal cells is one of the most complicated and functionally versatile
structures, involved in processes such as endocytosis, cell division, intra-cellular transport …

The actin cortex at a glance

P Chugh, EK Paluch - Journal of cell science, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Precisely controlled cell deformations are key to cell migration, division and tissue
morphogenesis, and have been implicated in cell differentiation during development, as well …

Actin dynamics, architecture, and mechanics in cell motility

L Blanchoin, R Boujemaa-Paterski… - Physiological …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Tight coupling between biochemical and mechanical properties of the actin cytoskeleton
drives a large range of cellular processes including polarity establishment, morphogenesis …

Cortical contractility triggers a stochastic switch to fast amoeboid cell motility

V Ruprecht, S Wieser, A Callan-Jones, M Smutny… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary 3D amoeboid cell migration is central to many developmental and disease-related
processes such as cancer metastasis. Here, we identify a unique prototypic amoeboid cell …

Focal adhesion–independent cell migration

EK Paluch, IM Aspalter, M Sixt - Annual review of cell and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Cell migration is central to a multitude of physiological processes, including embryonic
development, immune surveillance, and wound healing, and deregulated migration is key to …

Plasticity of cell migration: a multiscale tuning model

P Friedl, K Wolf - Journal of Cell Biology, 2010 - rupress.org
Cell migration underlies tissue formation, maintenance, and regeneration as well as
pathological conditions such as cancer invasion. Structural and molecular determinants of …

Hydrostatic pressure and the actomyosin cortex drive mitotic cell rounding

MP Stewart, J Helenius, Y Toyoda, SP Ramanathan… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
During mitosis, adherent animal cells undergo a drastic shape change, from essentially flat
to round,,. Mitotic cell rounding is thought to facilitate organization within the mitotic cell and …

[HTML][HTML] The role and regulation of blebs in cell migration

EK Paluch, E Raz - Current opinion in cell biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Blebs are cellular protrusions that have been shown to be instrumental for cell migration in
development and disease. Bleb expansion is driven by hydrostatic pressure generated in …