Protein key to cell motility has implications for stopping cancer metastasis

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 13:31 in Biology & Nature

A Penn team describes how a key cell-movement protein called IRSp53 is regulated in a resting and active state, and what this means for cancer-cell metastasis. They characterized how IRSp53 connects to the cell-motility machinery by starting the formation of cell filopodia.

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