Part I Imaging the Cytoskeleton in Live and Fixed Cells
1. Long-Term Live Cell Imaging of Cell Migration: Effects of Pathogenic Fungi on Human Epithelial Cell Migration Torsten Wöllert and George M. Langford
2. Live-Cell Imaging of Mitochondria and the Actin Cytoskeleton in Budding Yeast Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria, Theresa C. Swayne, Istvan R. Boldogh, and Liza A. Pon
3. Imaging of the Actin Cytoskeleton and Mitochondria in Fixed Budding Yeast Cells Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria, Theresa C. Swayne, Istvan R. Boldogh and Liza A. Pon
4. Imaging of the Cytoskeleton Using Live and Fixed Drosophila Tissue Culture Cells Derek A. Applewhite, Christine A. Davis, Eric R. Griffis, and Omar A. Quintero
5. Imaging Cytoskeleton Components by Electron Microscopy Tatyana Svitkina
6. Purification and Localization of Intraflagellar Transport Particles and Polypeptides Roger D. Sloboda
7. Fluorescence Imaging of the Cytoskeleton in Plant Roots Julia Dyachok, Ana Paez-Garcia, Cheol-Min Yoo, Karuppaiah Palanichelvam, and Elison B. Blancaflor
8. Microtubules in Plant Cells: Strategies and Methods for Immunofluorescence, Transmission Electron Microscopy, and Live Cell Imaging Katherine Celler, Miki Fujita, Eiko Kawamura, Chris Ambrose, Klaus Herburger, Andreas Holzinger, and Geoffrey O. Wasteneys
Part II Cytoskeleton Dynamics
9. Basic Methods to Visualize Actin Filaments In Vitro Using Fluorescence Microscopy for Observation of Filament Severing and Bundling Shoichiro Ono
10. An In Vitro Model System to Test Mechano-Microbiological Interactions Between Bacteria and Host Cells Luís Carlos Santos, Emilia Laura Munteanu, and Nicolas Biais
11. Reconstitution of a Minimal Actin Cortex by Coupling Actin Filaments to Reconstituted Membranes Sven K. Vogel
12. Use of Nanobodies to Localize Endogenous Cytoskeletal Proteins and to Determine Their Contribution to Cancer Cell Invasion by Using an ECM Degradation Assay Isabel Van Audenhove and Jan Gettemans
13. Actin-Dynamics in Plant Cells: The Function of Actin Perturbing Substances: Jasplakinolide, Chondramides, Phalloidin, Cytochalasins, and Latrunculins Andreas Holzinger and Kathrin Blaas
Part III Cell and Organelle Motility
14. Quantitative Motion Analysis in Two and Three Dimensions Deborah J. Wessels, Daniel F. Lusche, Spencer Kuhl, Amanda Scherer, Edward Voss, and David R. Soll
15. Measurement of Cell Motility Using Microgrooved Substrates James H-C. Wang, Guangyi Zhao, and Bin Li
16. The Study of Cell Motility by Cell Traction Force Microscopy (CTFM) James H-C. Wang, Guangyi Zhao, Bin Li
17. Melanosome Motility in Fish Retinal Pigment Epithelial (RPE) Cells Christina King-Smith
18. Analysis of Stem Cell Motility In Vivo Based on Immunodetection of Planarian Neoblasts and Tracing of BrdU-Labeled Cells After Partial Irradiation Junichi Tasaki, Chihiro Uchiyama-Tasaki, and Labib Rouhana
19. Chemotaxis: Under Agarose Assay Derrick Brazill
Part IV Genetic and Proteomic Protocols
20. Functional Analysis of Actin-Binding Proteins in the Central Nervous System of Drosophila Qi He and Christopher Roblodowski
21. Proteomic Analysis of Cytoskeleton Proteins in Fish Michael Gotesman, Simon Menanteau-Ledouble, Mansour El-Matbouli
22. Using a Hand-Held Gene Gun for Genetic Transformation of Tetrahymena Thermophila Michael Gotesman and Selwyn A. Williams
23.Proteomic Tools for the Analysis of Cytoskeleton Proteins Michael Scarpati, Mary Ellen Heavner, Eliza Wiech and Shaneen Singh
24. Homology Modeling Procedures for Cytoskeletal Proteins of Tetrahymena and Other Ciliated Protists Giovanni Pagano, Linda Hufnagel, and Roberta King
The third edition of this volume focuses on experimental models that are useful for investigating various aspects of cytoskeleton structure and function. Animal, plant, protist, and fungal models highlight twenty-four chapters that provide detailed protocols for live and fixed-cell imaging, dynamics of cytoskeleton components, cell and organelle motility, and genetics and proteomics. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, protocols in each chapter are up-to-date menus organized in a useful step-by-step format appropriate for novice and established investigators. Each chapter is equipped with a valuable notes section that provides a troubleshooting guide and helpful, and often unpublished, technical information aimed at ensuring success with implementation of the protocols.
Authoritative and thorough, Cytoskeleton Methods and Protocols, Third Edition helps researchers expand their understanding of cytoskeleton structure and function.