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TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 11, Pages 666-674Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2015.07.013
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- Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIH, NIDCR)
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Primary human fibroblasts are remarkably adaptable, able to migrate in differing types of physiological 3D tissue and on rigid 2D tissue culture surfaces. The crawling behavior of these and other vertebrate cells has been studied intensively, which has helped generate the concept of the cell motility cycle as a comprehensive model of 2D cell migration. However, this model fails to explain how cells force their large nuclei through the confines of a 3D matrix environment and why primary fibroblasts can use more than one mechanism to move in 3D. Recent work shows that the intracellular localization of myosin II activity is governed by cell-matrix interactions to both force the nucleus through the extracellular matrix (ECM) and dictate the type of protrusions used to migrate in 3D.
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