Figures
Filopodia filled with bundled actin filaments.
Filopodia and lamellipodia are actin-rich protrusions important for cell motility. This electron micrograph shows exaggerated filopodia with club-like shape induced by formin mDia2 in cultured cells. These filopodia are filled with bundled actin filaments which were born in and converged from the lamellipodial network (see Yang et al., page e317).
Image Credit: Image by Lubov Czech, Tatyana Svitkina, and Changsong Yang using Adobe Photoshop software
Citation: (2007) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 5(11) November 2007. PLoS Biol 5(11): ev05.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v05.i11
Published: November 27, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 Czech et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Filopodia and lamellipodia are actin-rich protrusions important for cell motility. This electron micrograph shows exaggerated filopodia with club-like shape induced by formin mDia2 in cultured cells. These filopodia are filled with bundled actin filaments which were born in and converged from the lamellipodial network (see Yang et al., page e317).
Image Credit: Image by Lubov Czech, Tatyana Svitkina, and Changsong Yang using Adobe Photoshop software