Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons

Ben T Larson; Wallace F Marshall

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.019

Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons

Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 26;34(4):R137-R140. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.019.

Authors

Ben T Larson¹, Wallace F Marshall²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: blarson@berkeley.edu.
² Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: wallace.ucsf@gmail.com.

PMID: 38412821
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.019

Abstract

Single cells are capable of remarkably sophisticated, sometimes animal-like, behaviors. New work demonstrates bioelectric control of motility through the differential regulation of appendage movements in a unicellular organism that walks across surfaces using leg-like bundles of cilia.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Cell Movement
Cilia* / physiology
Electrophysiological Phenomena
Movement
Neurons*