Ordered Patterns of Cell Shape and Orientational Correlationduring Spontaneous Cell Migration

摘要

BackgroundIn the absence of stimuli, most motile eukaryotic cells move by spontaneously coordinating cell deformation with cell movement in the absence of stimuli. Yet little is known about how cells change their own shape and how cells coordinate the deformation and movement. Here, we investigated the mechanism of spontaneous cell migration by using computational analyses.