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ArticleWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine

Eukaryotic chemotaxis.

Wouter-Jan Rappel, William F Loomis

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Article in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Emergent eukaryotic directional sensing via receptor degradation and diffusion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients.Annual review of biophysics · 2022
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  12. A secreted protein is an endogenous chemorepellant in Dictyostelium discoideum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012
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  16. How geometry and internal bias affect the accuracy of eukaryotic gradient sensing.Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics · 2011
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  17. Gradient sensing in defined chemotactic fields.Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro · 2010
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  18. Excitable behavior in amoeboid chemotaxis.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine
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  19. Signaling pathways that control cell migration: models and analysis.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Wouter-Jan RappelDepartments of Physics and Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
William F LoomisDepartments of Physics and Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Funding

Project 5P01GM078586 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI RAPPEL, WOUTER-JAN · 2007 to 2016
$11.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM078586
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During eukaryotic chemotaxis, external chemical gradients guide the crawling motion of cells. This process plays an important role in a large variety of biological systems and has wide ranging medical implications. New experimental techniques including confocal microscopy and microfluidics have advanced our understanding of chemotaxis while numerical modeling efforts are beginning to offer critical insights. In this short review, we survey the current experimental status of the field by dividing chemotaxis into three distinct "modules": directional sensing, polarity and motility. For each module, we attempt to point out potential new directions of research and discuss how modeling studies interact with experimental investigations.

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ChemotaxisModels, BiologicalCell PolarityCytoskeletonDictyosteliumactincAMPDictyosteliummodelingmotilityneutrophilspseudopod

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PMID20648241
PMCPMC2906236

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