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- Title
Actin in Action: Imaging Approaches to Study Cytoskeleton Structure and Function.
- Authors
McKayed, Katey K.; Simpson, Jeremy C.
- Abstract
The cytoskeleton plays several fundamental roles in the cell, including organizing the spatial arrangement of subcellular organelles, regulating cell dynamics and motility, providing a platform for interaction with neighboring cells, and ultimately defining overall cell shape. Fluorescence imaging has proved to be vital in furthering our understanding of the cytoskeleton, and is now a mainstay technique used widely by cell biologists. In this review we provide an introduction to various imaging modalities used to study focal adhesions and the actin cytoskeleton, and using specific examples we highlight a number of recent studies in animal cells that have advanced our knowledge of cytoskeletal behavior.
- Subjects
ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON; ORGANELLES; CELL morphology; BIOLOGISTS; CELL adhesion
- Publication
Cells (2073-4409), 2013, Vol 2, Issue 4, p715
- ISSN
2073-4409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cells2040715