Fig. 1: Immunofluorescence images of mouse Swiss 3T3 cells stained with anti-actin antibody (027AAN01).
Actin and Tubulin, as the major cytoskeleton structures, are crucial components of a plethora of processes in cell biology. Both are very much involved in stabilizing the cell shape, and especially in cell movements (e.g. cell migration) and intracellular movements and transport mechanisms.
Thus visualizing Actin and Tubulin in fixed or living cells and detecting them in biological samples (e.g. in Western Blots) belongs to basic experimental set-ups in Cell Biology.
A broad range of tools is available for all kind of experimental levels, in this post we’ll take a look at some of these you can use from Western Blot to Live Cell Imaging.
tebu-bio, a pan-European company specialized in providing innovative reagents and laboratory services in Life Sciences, has signed a distribution deal with Illumina®, Inc. to distribute the company’s Epicentre® brand. Until this year, tebu-bio had exclusive rights to distribute Epicentre® products in France alone, however this new deal will allow customers throughout Europe to purchase from tebu-bio. While Illumina’s primary business is in maintaining their dominant position in the sequencing machine market, this Epicentre® brand includes a collection of innovative and unique kits and enzymes used in molecular biology. Many of these enzymes are used in the preparation of DNASeq and RNASeq libraries to be sequenced on Illumina machines..jpg)