Forming the cell rear first: Breaking cell symmetry to trigger directed cell migration

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 628-632

  Cramer, Louise P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; F ACTIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE II; MYOSIN I; RHO KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CORNEA CELL; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FIBROBLAST; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; HUMANS; MYOSIN TYPE II;

EID: 77954240254     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb0710-628     Document Type: Review

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