Hands and feet: Closer than you think in epithelial migration

Abstract

Epithelial migration requires that substrate-based motility be coordinated with cell–cell adhesion. In this issue, Ozawa et al. (2020. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202006196) identify a central role for actin assembly at adherens junctions that contributes to both of these processes.