For example, resealed erythrocytes produced by dialysis are resistant to invasion and/or ring-stage growth up to ~20 hours post-entry18. Similarly, erythrocytes dialysed in the presence of the non-hydrolysable ATP ana- logue AMP-PNP were found to be unable to support either invasion, ...
As you know, sperm cells look a bit like tadpoles with long tails, orflagella, which they whip in order to swim to their destination and fertilize an egg cell. The sperm tail is made of tubulin and is an example of a microtubule filament used for cell locomotion. Another well-known moti...
The importance of membrane fluidity as a functional feature has been outlined in literature, for example, for motility and for T cell activation via antigen-presenting cells31,34. We demonstrated how the fluidity and the amount of immobile domains can be controlled by the degree of PDA surface ...
For example, resealed erythrocytes produced by dialysis are resistant to invasion and/or ring-stage growth up to ~20 hours post-entry18. Similarly, erythrocytes dialysed in the presence of the non-hydrolysable ATP ana- logue AMP-PNP were found to be unable to support either invasion, ...
Today, we know that lin-4 was just the first example of a large number of small RNAs, called microRNAs, which regulate the expression of various other proteins in a similar way. Victor Ambros, whose lab published that first story about lin-4, has been studying microRNAs (3, 4) and ...
Actin microfilaments form dense peripheral bands in the cell periphery and stress fibers in the central portions of endothelial cells.118 Actin microfilaments can change their orientation, distribution, and alignment based on the type of shear exposure. For example, in high laminar shear states, ...
For example, microtubule-disrupting agents such as colchicine or ethyl N-phenylcarbamate do not inhibit IAA-induced cell elongation in azuki bean epicotyls (Shibaoka, 1972; Shibaoka and Hogetsu, 1977). Moreover, treatment with the cellulose synthesis inhibitor, 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile, does not ...
(C) Example of Lifeact- GFP-visualization of F-actin in FTC-133 cells stable transfected with pLAGICT. (D) The μ-slide VI 0.4 ibiTreat slide assembled with medium containing flexible tubes prior to insertion into the late access and fixation unit. apoptotic or dead cells as judged by ...
Flipper-TR®probe is a fluorogenic probe that works by specifically targeting the plasma membrane of cells and reports membrane tension changes through its fluorescence lifetime output. It is the most advanced member of the Flipper probes family (seeCitation tabwith Refs. 1,2,3, and 4)....
We used electrical cell-substrate impedance sensing – a new method for continuous, real-time acquisition of impedance data that can be analyzed to discriminate resistance due to the cell-cell junction or to the cell-substratum distance and to model simultaneously the micromotion of the cells in ...