Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34308422›Full record

ReviewFaculty reviews2021

How adherens junctions move cells during collective migration.

Shafali Gupta, Alpha S Yap

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Review in Faculty reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Contractile forces direct the chiral swirling of minimal cell collectives.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Collective migration modes in development, tissue repair and cancer.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  5. E-Cadherin: A conductor of cellular signaling.Current opinion in cell biology · 2025
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  14. International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  15. A myosin chaperone, UNC-45A, is a novel regulator of intestinal epithelial barrier integrity and repair.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shafali GuptaDivision of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4072.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5309-4229
Alpha S YapDivision of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4072.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1038-8956
University of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this review, we consider how the association between adherens junctions and the actomyosin cytoskeleton influences collective cell movement. We focus on recent findings which reveal different ways for adherens junctions to promote the locomotion of cells within tissues: through lamellipodia and junctional contraction. These contributions reflect how classic cadherins establish sites of cortical actin assembly and how adherens junctions couple to contractile actomyosin, respectively. The diverse interplay between cadherin adhesion and the cytoskeleton thus provides different ways for adherens junctions to support epithelial locomotion.

Indexed as

adherens junctionscadherinsCollective cell migrationcytoskeletonepitheliaintercalation

Identifiers

PMID34308422
PMCPMC8265563
OpenAlexW3169591201

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