Schneider et al. monitored the incorporation of β-actin labeled with a green fluorescent protein (actin–GFP) into stereocilia from cultured neonate rat auditory cells. They observed that incorporation ...

We recently described in these pages the 17-amino-acid Lifeact peptide, which can be used to specifically label F-actin without adverse effects on actin dynamics 1. Although this marker has since ...

Cell division is the process of a cell splitting into two genetically identical daughter cells. The actin protein seen in this video is essential for successful cell division. While actin has several ...

Actin proteins group together to form a network of thin filaments that spread throughout a cell. This actin network is dynamic, meaning that the filaments can either grow or shrink to fit the ...

RNA interference, or RNAi, is all the rage these days. According to the Web of Science database (ISI, Philadelphia), the number of articles on the topic jumped from nine in 1998 to 229 in 2002. Why ...

As an example (Fig. 1b), lifetime-based information in images of an Arabidopsis thaliana root–hypocotyl junction expressing an actin fluorescent marker 5 and labeled with propidium iodide shows ...