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We thank S. Uebel and the core facility of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry for peptide synthesis and labeling, and S. Cremer and S. Wedlich for helpful comments on the manuscript. We obtained latrunculin A from P. Crews (University of California Santa Cruz). This study was supported by funds from the Max Planck Society (R.W.-S.), German Research Foundation SI1323/1-1 (M.S.) and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Z.W.).
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Julia Riedl, Alvaro H Crevenna, Jerry Haochen Yu & Roland Wedlich-Soldner - Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried, 82152, Germany
Kai Kessenbrock & Dieter Jenne - Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Independent Junior Research Group Axonal Growth and Regeneration, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried, 82152, Germany
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Michal Bista & Tad A Holak - Department of Anatomy and The Biomedical Sciences Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, 94143, California, USA
Zena Werb - Department of Molecular Medicine, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried, 82152, Germany
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Supplementary Movie 1
Actin dynamics in a mouse embryonic fibroblast. Images were acquired at 9 s/frame and are played back at 10 frames/s. Time stamp in minutes and seconds. (MOV 1655 kb)
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Actin dynamics in a chemotactic mouse dendritic cell. Images were acquired at 3 s/frame and are played back at 10 frames/s. Time stamp in minutes and seconds. (MOV 3004 kb)
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Dynamics of filopodia in a hippocampal neuron. Images were acquired at 2 s/frame and are played back at 10 frames/s. Time stamp in minutes and seconds. (MOV 820 kb)
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Cortical actin dynamics in the cell body of a hippocampal neuron. Images were acquired at 2 s/frame and are played back at 10 frames/s. Time stamp in minutes and seconds. (MOV 3804 kb)
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Cytokinetic ring formation during mitosis of MDCK cells. Images were acquired at 2 min/frame and are played back with 10 frames/s. Time stamp in hours and minutes. (MOV 238 kb)
Supplementary Movie 6
Spreading of a primary human neutrophil on a cover petri dish coated with immune complexes. Images were acquired at 1 s/frame and are played back at 10 frames/s. Time stamp in minutes and seconds. (MOV 1832 kb)
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Riedl, J., Crevenna, A., Kessenbrock, K. et al. Lifeact: a versatile marker to visualize F-actin.Nat Methods 5, 605–607 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1220
- Received: 26 March 2008
- Accepted: 16 May 2008
- Published: 08 June 2008
- Issue Date: July 2008
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1220