So You Think You Can Cell Dance

A migrating amoeba exhibiting:

1). macropinocytosis;
2). contractile vacuole contractions; and
3). lamellipodium extension.

The cell is illuminated with a fluorescent cytoplasmic protein and displayed approximately 30X faster than normal.

A shorter version of this video without the music and annotations was originally published on-line as supplementary material by:

Company of Biologists Copyright © 1999 in:

DA Kaiser, VK Vinson, DB Murphy and TD Pollard, Profilin is predominantly associated with monomeric actin in Acanthamoeba, Journal of Cell Science, Vol 112, Issue 21 3779-3790, 1999.

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD and Structural Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists and
reproduced / adapted with permission in 2009.

http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/112/21/3779

Category:

Education

Tags:

• So
• You
• Think
• Can
• Cell
• Dance
• amoeba
• ameba
• fluorescent
• protein
• profilin
• phagocytosis
• lamellipodium
• contractile
• vacuole
• migration
• amoebastome

[Funkykitsune]

It's microscopic and yet it still dances better than I do

[TheGrotesqueReality]

So dancing has evolved before music....makes sence!