Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

In vivo cell biological screening identifies an endocytic capture mechanism for T-tubule formation

  • Thomas E. Hall,
  • Nick Martel,
  • Nicholas Ariotti,
  • Zherui Xiong,
  • Harriet P. Lo,
  • Charles Ferguson,
  • James Rae,
  • Ye-Wheen Lim,
  • Robert G. Parton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17486-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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It is unclear how the T-tubule structure of skeletal muscle, which regulates coordinated muscle contraction, forms. Here, the authors develop a four-dimensional quantitative model for T-tubule formation in zebrafish, based on live imaging, proposing a dynamic endocytic capture model.