Access

News and Views

Nature 401, 542-543 (7 October 1999) | doi:10.1038/44044

Open Innovation Challenges

naturejobs

Cell motility: Bare bones of the cytoskeleton

Laura M. Machesky1 & John A. Cooper2

Movement is a fundamental feature of living organisms and, on a molecular level, the mechanism of cell movement is highly complex. So it comes as an exciting surprise that Carlier and colleagues (page 613 of this issue1) have dissected out a handful of proteins essential for reconstituting the motility of a bacterial propulsion system.

  1. Laura M. Machesky is in the Division of Molecular Cell Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
    e-mail: Email: L.M.Machesky@bham.ac.uk
  2. John A. Cooper is in the Department of Cell Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
    e-mail: Email: jcooper@cellbio.wustl.edu