How Does Adhesion Site Assembly Occurs While Nader Et Al

Constructing a picture or model for the particular situation (or modify one you find in one of the papers or a review article). Signaling pathways that result in cell migration are often useful in understanding how cancer cells metastasize. The researchers of Swaminathan et al., 2016 examine how adhesion site assembly occurs while Nader et al., 2016 focuses primarily on the adhesion turnover both are fundamental processes in cell migration. Integrins play a dominant role in nascent integrin-mediated adhesions (NAs) which are important in lamellipodium protrusion and generating traction at focal adhesion points involved in cell motility. Integrins have been extensively studied and are linked to wound healing as well as metastasis in cancer cells (Lawson et al., 2012). When extracellular signals, either chemical or physical, contact the cell surface it triggers a response that induces movement. If the signaling molecule is a growth factor (ex. Epidermal Growth Factor) it could activate a GTPase protein coupled receptor (GPCR). The next is a signal cascade often led by Rabs or Ras (small G-proteins) proteins tha t are powered by GTPase hydrolysis, which often recruits and activates Wiskott–Aldrich Syndrome protein (WASP) or Scar. Previous studies identified cancer cell that use Rab-coupling to control cell motility by regulating B-intgrins trafficking (Nader et al., 2016). WASP recruits Actin related protein 2 and 3 (Arp2/3) complex to the cell membrane and activates it