17 February 2025
Complex Moves
Cells move – as they do for example in healing, development and cancer spread – by virtue of molecular complexes called focal adhesions connecting the substrate outside a cell with the cell's interior scaffold, transducing mechanical forces. This study finds hundreds of gene transcripts (mRNA) at focal adhesions, and identifies an mRNA-dependent role for a complex of proteins called G3BP1 RNPs at the focal adhesions in regulating cell speed
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- Images from work by Liana C. Boraas and Mengwei Hu, and colleagues
- Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Cell Reports, February 2025
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