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_id: '1285'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Cell migration is central to a multitude of physiological processes, including
embryonic development, immune surveillance, and wound healing, and deregulated
migration is key to cancer dissemination. Decades of investigations have uncovered
many of the molecular and physical mechanisms underlying cell migration. Together
with protrusion extension and cell body retraction, adhesion to the substrate
via specific focal adhesion points has long been considered an essential step
in cell migration. Although this is true for cells moving on two-dimensional substrates,
recent studies have demonstrated that focal adhesions are not required for cells
moving in three dimensions, in which confinement is sufficient to maintain a cell
in contact with its substrate. Here, we review the investigations that have led
to challenging the requirement of specific adhesions for migration, discuss the
physical mechanisms proposed for cell body translocation during focal adhesion-independent
migration, and highlight the remaining open questions for the future.
acknowledgement: We would like to thank Dani Bodor for critical comments on the manuscript
and Guillaume Salbreux for discussions. The authors are supported by the United
Kingdom's Medical Research Council (MRC) (E.K.P. and I.M.A.; core funding to the
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology), by the European Research Council [ERC
GA 311637 (E.K.P.) and ERC GA 281556 (M.S.)], and by a START award from the Austrian
Science Foundation (M.S.).
author:
- first_name: Ewa
full_name: Paluch, Ewa
last_name: Paluch
- first_name: Irene
full_name: Aspalter, Irene
last_name: Aspalter
- first_name: Michael K
full_name: Sixt, Michael K
id: 41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Sixt
orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179
citation:
ama: Paluch E, Aspalter I, Sixt MK. Focal adhesion-independent cell migration. Annual
Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 2016;32:469-490. doi:10.1146/annurev-cellbio-111315-125341
apa: Paluch, E., Aspalter, I., & Sixt, M. K. (2016). Focal adhesion-independent
cell migration. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. Annual
Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-111315-125341
chicago: Paluch, Ewa, Irene Aspalter, and Michael K Sixt. “Focal Adhesion-Independent
Cell Migration.” Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. Annual
Reviews, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-111315-125341.
ieee: E. Paluch, I. Aspalter, and M. K. Sixt, “Focal adhesion-independent cell migration,”
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, vol. 32. Annual Reviews,
pp. 469–490, 2016.
ista: Paluch E, Aspalter I, Sixt MK. 2016. Focal adhesion-independent cell migration.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 32, 469–490.
mla: Paluch, Ewa, et al. “Focal Adhesion-Independent Cell Migration.” Annual
Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, vol. 32, Annual Reviews, 2016, pp.
469–90, doi:10.1146/annurev-cellbio-111315-125341.
short: E. Paluch, I. Aspalter, M.K. Sixt, Annual Review of Cell and Developmental
Biology 32 (2016) 469–490.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:08Z
date_published: 2016-10-06T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:49:37Z
day: '06'
department:
- _id: MiSi
doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-111315-125341
ec_funded: 1
intvolume: ' 32'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '10'
oa_version: None
page: 469 - 490
project:
- _id: 25A603A2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '281556'
name: Cytoskeletal force generation and force transduction of migrating leukocytes
(EU)
- _id: 25A8E5EA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: FWF
grant_number: Y 564-B12
name: Cytoskeletal force generation and transduction of leukocytes (FWF)
publication: Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
publication_status: published
publisher: Annual Reviews
publist_id: '6031'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: Focal adhesion-independent cell migration
type: journal_article
user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 32
year: '2016'
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