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Cell motility

Braking WAVEs

Nature volume 418, pages 732–733 (2002)Cite this article

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When cells move, they alter their internal skeleton to push membrane out at the front and pull it in at the back. New work fills in some of the gaps in our knowledge of how this process is regulated.

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Figure 1: Regulation of actin polymerization, and hence cell movement, by the WASP and WAVE proteins.

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