Lecture outline 17
10/05/01 

The cytoskeleton

• components
• microfilaments
• intermediate filaments
• microtubules
• relation to synapse and neurons
• cell shape
• cytoplasmic streaming
• vesicular transport
• ACh receptor localization 

Cytoplasmic streaming in an onion cell (Douglas Kline, Cell Biology, Kent State)
http://dept.kent.edu/projects/cell/video/video3rm.html
Animation of kinesin (Steve Berg, Winona State University)
http://bio.winona.msus.edu/berg/ANIMTNS/Kinesin.htm
Microtubules sliding along kinesin (Vale lab, UCSF)
http://cmp.ucsf.edu/valelab/IMAGES/mov-tstmovie2.flt.mov
Animated model for kinesin motion (Vale lab, UCSF) 
http://cmp.ucsf.edu/valelab/newsnat.html