20 November 2023
Gather Round
The immune system's B cells recognise their foe (antigens) with receptors (also known as immunoglobulin or antibody) on their cell surface. Here, super resolution microscopy combined with 4D image analysis reveals how these receptors on the cell surface localise into clusters as ridges and finger-like projections called microvilli to aid recognition of their targets
Read the published research paper here
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- Video adapted from work by Deniz Saltukoglu and colleagues
- Department of Molecular Immunology, Biology III, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in The EMBO Journal, January 2023
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