EGFR-induced cytoskeletal changes drive complex cell behaviors: The tip of the iceberg.

Sci Signal

Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research, Harvard Medical School, 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.

Published: January 2018

Cytoskeletal networks are dramatically reorganized upon EGF stimulation to enable complex cell behaviors such as cell-cell communication, migration and invasion, and cell division. In this issue of , Roth and Pike use proteomic methods to identify several effectors of EGF responses. The findings show the interdependent nature of growth factor signaling and the cytoskeleton and identify potential new therapeutic targets for treating cancer and other growth factor-driven diseases.

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