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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cell Biol. 2017 Mar 8;27(7):505–514. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2017.02.005

Figure 3. Visualization of microtubule sliding in Drosophila neurons using photoconvertible tubulin.

Figure 3

(A) A spherical-shaped young neuron expressing photoconvertible EOS-tagged α-tubulin. (B) 400nm light is applied to a restricted area to photoconvert a subset of microtubules in the young neurons. (C) A subset of microtubules is photoconverted from green to red. (D) Red microtubule fragments are scattered throughout the cell body and in the newly formed neurites by microtubule-microtubule sliding, revealed by time-lapse movies.