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Basic mechanisms of migration

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Basic mechanisms of migration
  • Cell migration at a glance. Vicente-Manzanares M, Webb DJ, Horwitz AR J Cell Sci. 2005 Nov 1;118(Pt 21):4917-9. PubMed PubMed
  • Chemotaxis: signalling the way forward. Van Haastert PJ, Devreotes PN Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2004 Aug;5(8):626-34. PubMed PubMed
  • Cell migration: integrating signals from front to back. Ridley AJ, Schwartz MA, Burridge K, Firtel RA, Ginsberg MH, Borisy G, Parsons JT, Horwitz AR. Science. 2003, 302(5651):1704-9. PubMed
  • Cell Migration. Horwitz R, Webb D. Curr Biol. 2003, 13(19):R756-9. PubMed.
  • A cell's sense of direction. Parent CA , Devreotes PN. Science. 1999, 284:765-70. PubMed
  • Cell migration--movin' on. Horwitz AR , Parsons JT. Science. 1999, 286:1102-3. PubMed

Migration in biological processes
  • Immune cell migration in inflammation: present and future therapeutic targets. Andrew D Luster, Ronen Alon & Ulrich H von Andrian. Nature Immunology. 2005, 6:1182 – 1190. PubMed
  • Tumor cells caught in the act of invading: their strategy for enhanced cell motility.Wang W, Goswami S, Sahai E, Wyckoff JB, Segall JE, Condeelis JS. Trends Cell Biol. 2005 15(3):138-45. PubMed
  • Cell migration during gastrulation. Keller R. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2005 Oct; 17(5):533-41. PubMed
  • Cell migration in tumors. Yamaguchi H, Wyckoff J, Condeelis J. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2005 Oct; 17(5):559-64. PubMed
  • Border-cell migration: the race is on. Montell DJ. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2003, 4(1):13-24. PubMed
  • A long, remarkable journey: tangential migration in the telencephalon. Marin O, Rubenstein JL. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2001, 2:780-90. PubMed.
  • Cell movements during vertebrate development: integrated tissue behaviour versus individual cell migration. Locascio A, Nieto MA. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2001, 11(4):464-9. Review. PubMed
  • Cell migration in invertebrates: clues from border and distal tip cells. Lehmann R. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2001, 11:457-63. PubMed.
  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal migration: relevance to cortical epilepsies. Rakic P. Adv Neurol. 2000, 84:1-14. PubMed.
  • Molecular determinants of neural crest migration. Maschhoff KL, Baldwin HS. Am J Med Genet. 2000, 97(4):280-8. Review. PubMed
  • Cellular signaling in macrophage migration and chemotaxis. Jones GE. J. Leuko Biol. 2000, 68:593-602. PubMed.
  • Leukocyte polarization in cell migration and immune interactions. Sanchez-Madrid F, del Pozo MA. EMBO J. 1999, 18:501-11. PubMed.
  • The genetics of cell migration in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans development. Montell D J. Development. 1999, 126:3035-46. PubMed.

Migration related articles:

Cell Adhesion | Cytoskeleton | Regulation | Extracellular matrix & proteases | Imaging Migration Processes | Modeling Migration

Cell Adhesion

  • Integrin trafficking and the control of cell migration. Caswell PT and Norman JC. Traffic. 2006 Jan; 7(1):14-21. Pubmed
  • Regulation of immune cell adhesion and migration by regulator of adhesion and cell polarization enriched in lymphoid tissues. Kinashi T, Katagiri K. Immunology. 2005; 116:164-71. PubMed
  • Focal adhesion regulation of cell behaviour. Michele A. Wozniak, Katarzyna Modzelewska, Lina Kwong and Patricia J. Keely. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 2004, 1692:103-119. PubMed
  • Sensing the environment: a historical perspective on integrin signal transduction. Miranti CK, Brugge JS. Nature Cell Biol. 2002, 4:83-90. PubMed
  • Adhesion assembly, disassembly and turnover in migrating cells - over and over and over again. Webb DJ, Parsons JT, Horwitz AF. Nature Cell Biol. 2002, 4:E97-E100. PubMed
  • Focal adhesion kinase: a regulator of focal adhesion dynamics and cell movement. Parsons JT, Martin KH, Slack JK, Taylor JM, Weed SA. Oncogene. 2000, 19:5606-13. PubMed

Cytoskeleton

  • Regulation of microtubules in cell migration. Watanabe T, Noritake J, Kaibuchi K. Trends Cell Biol. 2005 15(2):76-83. PubMed
  • Cellular motility driven by assembly and disassembly of actin filaments. Pollard TD, Borisy GG. Cell. 2003, 112(4):453-65. PubMed
  • Actomyosin: law and order in motility. Volkmann N, Hanein D. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2000, 12:26-34. PubMed.
  • Rho GTPases: molecular switches that control the organization and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton. Hall A, Nobes CD. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2000, 355:965-70. PubMed.
  • Cytoskeleton cross-talk during cell motility. Small JV, Kaverina I, Krylyshkina O, Rottner K. FEBS Lett. 1999, 452:96-9. PubMed.
  • Cytoskeletal rearrangement during migration and activation of T lymphocytes. Serrador JM, Nieto M, Sanchez-Madrid F. Trends Cell Biol. 1999, 9:228-33. PubMed.

Regulation

  • The regulation of cell migration by PTEN. Leslie NR, Yang X, Downes CP, Weijer CJ. Biochem Soc Trans . 2005, 33:1507-8. PubMed
  • Signaling and Endocytosis: A Team Effort for Cell Migration.  Le Roy, J. Wrana.Developmental Cell. 2005, 9: 167-168 C. PubMed
  • Diverse roles of eph receptors and ephrins in the regulation of cell migration and tissue assembly. Alexei Poliakov, Marisa Cotrina, and David G. Wilkinson Developmental Cell. 2004, 7: 465-480. PubMed
  • Cell migration: Rho GTPases lead the way. M. Raftopoulou and A. Hall Developmental Biol. 2004, 265: 23-32. PubMed
  • Signaling pathways controlling cell polarity and chemotaxis. Chung CY, Funamoto S, Firtel RA. Trends Biochem Sci. 2001, 26:557-66. PubMed.
  • The molecular genetics of chemotaxis: sensing and responding to chemoattractant gradients. Firtel RA, Chung CY. Bioessays. 2000, 22:603-15. PubMed.

Extracellular matrix & proteases

  • Cell migration in 3D matrix. Even-Ram S and Yamada KM. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 2005 17(5):524-32. PubMed
  • The many faces of metalloproteases: cell growth, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis. Chang C, Werb Z. Trends Cell Biol. 2001, 11:S37-43. PubMed
  • Extracellular matrix and keratinocyte migration. O'Toole EA. Clin Exp Dermatol. 2001, 26:525-30. PubMed
  • Cellular strategies for proteolytic targeting during migration and invasion. Ellis V, Murphy G. FEBS Lett. 2001, 506:1-5. PubMed

Imaging Migration Processes

  • In vitro and in vivo imaging of cell migration: two interdepending methods to unravel metastasis formation. Daniel Palm, Kerstin Lang, Burkhard Brandt, Kurt S. Zaenker and Frank Entschladen. Semin Cancer Biol . 2005,15(5):396-404. PubMed
  • In vivo imaging of lymphocyte trafficking Halin C, Rodrigo Mora J, Sumen C, von Andrian UH. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2005;21:581-60. PubMed
  • Microscope-based techniques to study cell adhesion and migration. Roy P, Rajfur Z, Pomorski P, Jacobson K. Nature Cell Biol. 2002, 4:E91-E96. PubMed

Modeling Migration

  • Systems biology of bacterial chemotaxis. Baker MD, Wolanin PM, Stock JB. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2006 Apr; 9(2):187-92. PubMed
  • On the edge: modeling protrusion. Mogilner A Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2006 Feb; 18(1):32-9. PubMed
  • An introduction to cell motility for the physical scientist. Fletcher DA, Theriot JA. Phys Biol. 2004 Jun; 1(1-2):T1-10. PubMed
  • Modeling the cell's guidance system. Iglesias PA, Levchenko A. Sci STKE. 2002 Sep 3; (148):RE12. PubMed
  • The Virtual Cell: a software environment for computational cell biology. Loew LM, Schaff JC. Trends Biotechnol. 2001, 19:401-6. PubMed
  • The Physics of molecular motors. Bustamante C, Keller D, Oster G. Acc Chem Res. 2001, 34:412-20. PubMed
  • Bioengineering models of cell signaling. Asthagiri AR, Lauffenburger DA. Annu Rev Biomed Eng. 2000, 2:31 -53. PubMed