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Image shows (actin polymerization at) free barbed ends and F-actin in the lamellipodium of a migrating primary murine embryonic fibroblast. Cell has been mildly permeabilized using saponin during a 2min incubation in cytoskeleton buffer containing X-rhodamine labeled G-actin. Intracellular X-rhodamine actin polymerized into filaments at the very leading edge of the lamellipodium, resulting in the narrow red band along the tip of the lamelipodium. Lamellipodial F-actin was labeled with Alexa488-phalloidin using glutaraldehyde fixation subsequently to the X-rhodamine actin incubation. The micrograph visualizes that the actin monomer incorporation into the lamellipodial actin filament structure is restricted to the front of the lamellipodium. This enables a directed extension of the branched actin network towards the plasmamembrane, which pushes the membrane forward thereby creating cell protrusion. Wide field epifluorescence image taken on using a 100X 1.49 NA lens, Semrock DA/FI/TR/Cy5-4x4M-B Sedat filter set, and an Orca II with 500 ms exposure. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Thieverssen, Ingo; Waterman, Clare M. (2021). CIL:7429, Mus musculus, fibroblast, primary cell line cell. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0TX3DDP
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