Image of the week - Focal Adhesions by Shiverwarp
2016-05-20 Welcome to another HPA image of the week! This week's image was brought to us by citizen scientists in Project Discovery, and specifically by Shiverwarp who found this image while playing Project Discovery in EVE online. The protein stained in Fig 1. is an image of Coronin, actin binding protein, 2B (CORO2B) found in the focal adhesions and at the plasma membrane of the cell. This sample shows U-251 MG human glioblastoma astrocytoma (brain) cells. Focal adhesions are transmembrane groups of protein that allow the cell to "grab" the surrounding environment...Read more |