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Description

The retrograde flow of microtubules oriented perpendicular to the leading edge in the lamellipodium is coupled to the movement of immediately adjacent lamellum f-actin speckles. Primary cultures of newt (Taricha granulosa) lung epithelial cells weremicroinjected with X-rhodamine actin and Cy2 tubulin in coinjection. Dual-wavelength time-lapse FSM was performed on a spinning disk confocal microscope system. Light from a 50-mW Krypton-Argon ion laser (Melles Griot, OmniChrome) was delivered by a single-mode fiber optic (Point Source) to a Yokogawa spinning disk confocal scan-head (Ultra-View; PerkinElmer) on an inverted microscope (TE300 Quantum; Nikon). Excitation wavelength was selected by a filter-wheel apparatus (Sutter Instruments Co.) containing excitation filters for 488 and 568 nm (Chroma) and an opaque disk used as an excitation shutter. Emission was selected by multiple bandpass dichromatic mirror and emission filter (Chroma). Images were collected by a 100x 1.4NA Plan-Apo DIC objective lens (Nikon) and captured with an Orca 2 camera (Hamamatsu). Microscope functions were controlled by MetaMorph software (Universal Imaging). One set of sequential images of the specimen using 488 nm light for Cy2 tubulin and 568 nm light for X-rhodamine f-actin was collected in the ventral focal plane at 10s intervals for 30–60 min. Images were processed as follows: (1) background subtraction; (2) 3 x3 low pass filter; (3) unsharp mask filter; (4) color coding MT images green and f-actin images red; and (5) color combining into 24-bit RGB images. Video corresponds to Fig 3A and video 4 in J Cell Biol, 158:31-37, 2002

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Taricha granulosa
Cell Type
epithelial cell of lung
Cellular Component
actin cytoskeleton
microtubule cytoskeleton
Attribution
Names
Wendy C. Salmon
Michael C. Adams
Clare M. Waterman-Storer
Published
J Cell Biol, 158:31-37, 2002
Pubmed
12105180
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL12297
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil12297
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Imaging
Image Type
recorded image
Image Mode
spinning disk confocal microscopy
fluorescent speckle microscopy
Parameters Imaged
fluorescence emission
Source of Contrast
distribution of a specific protein
Visualization Methods
X-Rhodamine
Cy2
Processing History
background subtraction, 3X3 low pass filter, unsharp mask
Data Qualifiers
processed data
suitable for spatial measurements
Sample Preparation
Methods
living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell
dispersed cells in vitro
Dimensions
Spatial Axis Image Size Pixel Size
X 130px 0.077µm
Y 285px 0.077µm
Channel Wavelength
1 488, 568nm
Time 10 seconds 15 min 10sec