18 July 2025
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This study presents biochemical tools that allow components of the cell's inner scaffold or cytoskeleton called vimentin intermediate filaments to be rapidly manipulated inside the cell, as a whole or in specific regions, by means of chemicals or light (optogenetics). This approach enables study of the relationship between vimentin and other cell structures
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- Image from work by Milena Pasolli & Joyce C.M. Meiring, and colleagues
- Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Journal of Cell Biology, July 2025
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