Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Probing cytoskeletal modulation of passive and active intracellular dynamics using nanobody-functionalized quantum dots

  • Eugene A. Katrukha,
  • Marina Mikhaylova,
  • Hugo X. van Brakel,
  • Paul M. van Bergen en Henegouwen,
  • Anna Akhmanova,
  • Casper C. Hoogenraad,
  • Lukas C. Kapitein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14772
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Methods to probe transport dynamics within cells can shed insight into the nature of the cytoplasm. Here the authors develop a method to functionalize and deliver quantum dots intracellularly to show how the cytoskeleton influences non-equilibrium intracellular transport dynamics.