Ruedi Meili, Atsuo T. Sasaki and Richard A. Firtel are at the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0380, USA. rafirtel@ucsd.edu
Many biological processes require the movement of cells in response to guidance cues. Small GTPases and phosphoinositides are key mediators of the underlying cytoskeletal rearrangements, and a new study establishes that the localization and activation of the phosphoinositide phosphatase PTEN at the rear of chemotaxing neutrophils is mediated by the small GTPase RhoA.
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