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Endocytic vesicles move at the tips of actin tails in cultured mast cells

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Figure 1: Tails of F-actin move through live RBL cells.
Figure 2: Actin tails propel pinosomes.

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This work was supported by the Schweizerische Krebsliga and the Swiss National Science Foundation, by a European Commission grant and by the Max Planck Society. C.J.M. was the recipient of an EMBO short-term fellowship. We thank T. Soldati and T. Lang for comments on the manuscript.

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    Christien J. Merrifield & Stephen E. Moss

  2. Department of Pathology, Centre Medical Universitaire, Rue Michel-Servet 1, Geneva, CH-1211, Switzerland

    Christoph Ballestrem & Beat A. Imhof

  3. Max Planck Institute für Medizinische Forschung, Jahnstrasse 29, Heidelberg, 69120 , Germany

    Günter Giese, Ilse Wunderlich & Wolfhard Almers

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Merrifield, C., Moss, S., Ballestrem, C. et al. Endocytic vesicles move at the tips of actin tails in cultured mast cells . Nat Cell Biol 1, 72–74 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/9048

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