Extracellular vesicles direct migration by synthesizing and releasing chemotactic signals

Autor: Sonia Ammu, Kedar Narayan, Weiye Wang, Lisa M. Miller Jenkins, Miho Iijima, Paul W. Kriebel, Carole A. Parent, Ritankar Majumdar, Song Chen, Hiroshi Senoo
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: The Journal of Cell Biology
ISSN: 1540-8140
Popis: Sung and Weaver discuss new work from Kriebel et al. showing how extracellular vesicles generate and sustain chemotactic signals.
Directional cell motility toward a chemical gradient, chemotaxis, is critical during inflammation, embryogenesis, and cancer metastasis. In this issue, Kriebel et al. (2018. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201710170) demonstrate that the key cAMP chemoattractant for Dictyostelium discoideum amoebas is synthesized within and released from extracellular vesicles to promote chemotaxis.
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