J M Vasiliev

TL;DR: The results of the experiments show that many changes of phenotype induced in cells by microtubule-depolymerizing agents can be mimicked by the inhibition of motor proteins, and therefore microtubules functions in maintaining of the cell shape and polarity are mediated by motor proteins rather than by being provided by rigidity of tubulin polymer itself.

TL;DR: It is suggested that cell transition to transformed phenotype involves shift of an equilibrium between the reactions induced by the two groups of membrane-bound ligands: those attached and those not attached to the substratum.

TL;DR: It is suggested that cell migration from the grooves can be regarded as a result of differences in the attachment of cells to surfaces with various geometrical configurations.

TL;DR: Microtubules depolymerized by colcemid, and/or intermediate filaments undergoing perinuclear collapse in the presence of this drug, are essential not only for the restriction of pseudopodial activity to one particular zone of the cell edge but also for the development of maximal activity in this zone.

TL;DR: Morphology and distribution of cell-substrate contacts and their association with microfilament bundles in normal and RSV-transformed quail fibroblasts (16Q line) were studied by indirect immunofluorescence to suppose that dot contacts represent initial structures which can undergo maturation transforming them into dash contacts.