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Review
. 1994 Sep;271(3):54-5, 58-63.
doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0994-54.

The machinery of cell crawling

T P Stossel  1
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Review

The machinery of cell crawling

T P Stossel. Sci Am. 1994 Sep.

Abstract

When a cell crawls, part of its fluid cytoplasm briefly turns rigid. This transformation depends on the orderly assembly and disassembly of a protein scaffold.

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