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Ena/Vasp: solving a cell motility paradox
1MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, Gower Street, UK. l.cramer@ucl.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|July 19, 2002
Abstract:
Modulating the concentration of the actin-binding protein Ena/Vasp within the lamellipodium of a migrating fibroblast results in marked changes in lamellipodium behaviour and actin network organization at the cell's leading edge. This can explain a cell motility paradox.