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CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 245-253Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2011.11.009
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- National Institutes of Health [GM28007, GM34933]
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The actin cytoskeleton in motile cells has many of the hallmarks of an excitable medium, including the presence of propagating waves. This excitable behavior can account for the spontaneous migration of cells. A number of reports have suggested that the chemoattractant-mediated signaling can bias excitability, thus providing a means by which cell motility can be directed. In this review, we discuss some of these observations and theories proposed to explain them. We also suggest a mechanism for cell polarity that can be incorporated into the existing framework.
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