Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Nance-Horan Syndrome-like 1 protein negatively regulates Scar/WAVE-Arp2/3 activity and inhibits lamellipodia stability and cell migration

  • Ah-Lai Law,
  • Shamsinar Jalal,
  • Tommy Pallett,
  • Fuad Mosis,
  • Ahmad Guni,
  • Simon Brayford,
  • Lawrence Yolland,
  • Stefania Marcotti,
  • James A. Levitt,
  • Simon P. Poland,
  • Maia Rowe-Sampson,
  • Anett Jandke,
  • Robert Köchl,
  • Giordano Pula,
  • Simon M. Ameer-Beg,
  • Brian Marc Stramer,
  • Matthias Krause

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25916-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Cell migration is essential for many physiological processes. Its deregulation causes cancer metastasis and it is not well understood how it is tightly controlled. We identify NHSL1 as a negative regulator of actin nucleating Scar/WAVE-Arp2/3 complexes, cell protrusion stability, and cell migration.