Cell Extrusion: Crowd Pushing and Sticky Neighbours

Alexis Villars; Romain Levayer

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.033

Cell Extrusion: Crowd Pushing and Sticky Neighbours

Curr Biol. 2020 Feb 24;30(4):R168-R171. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.033.

Authors

Alexis Villars¹, Romain Levayer²

Affiliations

¹ Institut Pasteur, Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, CNRS UMR 3738, Paris, France; Sorbonne Université, Collège Doctoral, F75005 Paris, France.
² Institut Pasteur, Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, CNRS UMR 3738, Paris, France. Electronic address: romain.levayer@pasteur.fr.

PMID: 32097644
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.033

Abstract

Cell extrusion is a highly coordinated process allowing the removal of an epithelial cell from the tissue layer without disrupting its integrity. Two new studies shed new light on the complexity of cell-cell coordination at play during cell extrusion.

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MeSH terms

Actin Cytoskeleton
Actomyosin*
Apoptosis
Epithelial Cells*

Substances

Actomyosin