Emery and colleagues show that during collective migration of Drosophila border cells, the Rab11 small GTPase regulates Rac activity throughout the cell cluster. They propose that Rab11 activates the actin-binding protein Moesin at the cell cortex, which allows the spatial restriction of Rac activity to the leading cell of the group.
- Damien Ramel
- Xiaobo Wang
- Gregory Emery