2012 Small World In Motion Competition

CAR fish fibroblast transfected with mCherry-Actin and GFP-Vasp

Dr. Maria Nemethova

Affiliation
IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Technique
Epifluorescence
Magnifaction
100

This video illustrates the polymerization of actin, a protein which drives cell movements. Actin acts like the “scaffold” of a cell, so understanding how it forms is important is to basic cellular research and can help answer further questions on how cells form.