How cells changing their shape or moving orchestrate their cytoskeleton? Cells and tissues are not static structures, but during development they change their size and shape and migrate. Plasticity of ...

In this way, integrins play an important role in sensing the environment and controlling cell shape and motility. Integrins are a diverse family of transmembrane proteins found in all animal cells.

Mycoplasmas, including bacteria that cause pneumonia in humans, are generally nonmotile, but Mycoplasma mobile, as the ...

A new way to measure male fertility has been discovered by researchers at the University of Waterloo, opening the door to the ...

Fz/PCP signalling regulates cell motility in the contexts of convergent extension and ommatidial rotation, in which these polarizing signals might regulate cell adhesive contacts through the ...

the flexibility of this paxillin segment appears to support the cells' motility as a whole by gripping and releasing the integrin." The dynamic protein structures were analyzed using nuclear ...

This tissue remodeling relies on the integration of multiple cellular processes, including cell polarity, motility, and adhesion. Moreover, these processes are directly modulated by communication ...