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The movie sequence shows microtubules in an LLC-PK1-alpha cell in mitosis. The cell is shown from before nuclear envelope breakdown through cytokinesis. (MOV 19442 kb)
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Wadsworth, P., Rusan, N., Tulu, U. et al. Stable expression of fluorescently tagged proteins for studies of mitosis in mammalian cells. Nat Methods 2, 981–987 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1205-981
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