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Yuki Maekawa

@gatohamu.bsky.social
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PhD student quietly investigating cell biology and cell migration.

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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A beautiful spotlight on our recent work on the polarity maintenance in bleb-based motility in metastatic cancer cells by @vickysanzmoreno.bsky.social and Dipanwita Das is published in Developmental Cell.
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Yuki Maekawa @gatohamu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Ankita Jha @ankita13jha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Excited to share our new paper, now published in Nature Cell Biology! 🎉 We asked a fundamental question in cell biology: How do cells maintain polarity while migrating? Especially how do cancer cells navigate confined spaces? www.nature.com/articles/s41556-026-01981-1
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CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to polarize cytoskeletal signalling modules driving bleb-based migration - Nature Cell Biology
Jha et al. show that the transmembrane protein CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to maintain an EGFR–PI3K–Rac gradient during bleb-based cell migration.
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Yuki Maekawa @gatohamu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Found a fascinating paper. Importin-β1 functions as a chromatin sensor to position the contractile ring for cytokinesis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Importin-β1 functions as a chromatin sensor to position the contractile ring for cytokinesis
This study by Brancheriau et al. reveals a mechanism that cells use to sense chromosome position to properly divide. This pathway may be more dominant in cells with higher ploidy, such as cancer cells...
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Yuki Maekawa @gatohamu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is my first paper. A brief introduction of myself.
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Yuki Maekawa @gatohamu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Bleb expansion requires transient membrane invaginations that sequester curvature-preferring proteins | PNAS
Bleb-based cell migration involves rapid plasma membrane expansion driven by intracellular pressure. How the membrane reorganizes its curvature and...
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