CIL:40267

Time lapse movie of a porcine kidney LLCPK1 cell stably expressing photoactivable GFP-tubulin. Fluorescence was activated at prophase in a vertical strip perpendicular to the spindle orientation. Microtubules in the activated strip show a variety of motions both toward and away from spindle poles. This contrasts with the exclusively poleward motion of spindle microtubules seen at metaphase (and illustrated in the grouped movie CIL:40266). The time series of images used to prpeare this movie is included in the group of images. See Fig 1A in: NP Ferenz and P Wadsworth 2007. Prophase microtubule arrays undergo flux-like behavior in mammalian cells. Mol Biol Cell 18:3993-4002