title: The machinery of cell crawling.
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.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Stossel
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D000818:Animals; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D003593:Cytoplasm; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D000199:Actins