Vesicle movement along axons

1,742 views · Published 11 December 2017 · 0:06 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: Cell Press · 2017 · Science & Technology

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The video shows vesicles carrying the transferrin receptor, tagged with a red fluorescent protein, moving along the axons of neurons in culture. When the vesicles encounter an actin patch (labeled green with GFP), they reverse direction. 

To learn more, please see the paper [http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(17)31683-2] from Balasanyan et al., at Cell Reports.

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