Chapter 4
vl.bwh.harvard.edu/
The World Wide Web Virtual Library of Cell Biology, which includes links for many topics relevant to the cytoskeleton.
heuserlab.wustl.edu/images.html
Heuser laboratory image gallery, includes video clips of Dictyostelium "snacking" and Listeria "rocketing". Plus a collection of beautiful EM's, including many images of cytoskeletal structures such as microvilli, muscle molecular motors, and axonemes.
Chapter 6
iccbweb.med.harvard.edu/mitchisonlab
Light-hearted website with useful links to other sites on actin-based motility and kinetochores.
expmed.bwh.harvard.edu/main/menu2.html
Detailed information from several groups at Harvard Medical School with many graphics and pictures on actin cross-linking proteins, actin dynamics, actin severing and capping proteins, mechanics of and signaling to the actin cytoskeleton.
research.biology.arizona.edu/myosin/
Home page of Bruce Patterson's group with information on the basic workings of the myosin motor and the analysis of mutants. Pictures and movies of the myosin molecule are also available.
www.unc.edu/depts/salmlab/mafia/mafiamovies.html
Home page of Ted Salmon's group with many beautiful images and movies of cytoskeletal dynamics, including sequences of cytokinesis.
pubweb.nwu.edu/~yoshifk/fukui.html
A site with movies of labeled actin dynamics in Dictyostelium during locomotion and cytokinesis.
npbsn41.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/
Michel Ferenczi's laboratory home page, which uses time-resolved x-ray diffraction to study the changes during muscle contraction.
www.ks.uiuc.edu/research/titinIg/
Summary of the structure of the giant titin molecule and an animated model of how its globular domains unfold sequentially under stress.
www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/1049155.shl
Animated movie of a myosin head moving along actin filament.
www.bio.unipd.it/~telethon/MuscleNET.html
A site hosted by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Italy and the University of Padua. Provides access to the human muscle gene map and to detailed information on molecular genetics of muscle and information on neuromuscular diseases.
www.leeds.ac.uk/bms/index.htm
Look for research on muscle development, titin, and myosin, including a live video of a walking myosin V molecule!
www.unc.edu/depts/salmlab/
A rich collection of pictures, movies, experimental protocols, and web links on microtubules from the Salmon laboratory.
www.proweb.org/kinesin/KinesinTree.html
Clickable map of kinesin motor domains with tables and links to other sites.
www.microscopy.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/mitosis/mitosis.html
A collection of images of mitosis in onion tip cells.
www.life.umd.edu/cbmg/faculty/wolniak/wolniakmitosis.html
A primer on mitosis describing stages and with associated microscopic images from plant cells.
www.bio.ph.kcl.ac.uk
The Biophysics group at Kings College London display detailed computer models of the ciliary axoneme.
www.wsu.edu:8080/~omoto/
Charlotte Omoto's home page contains videos of reactivated Chlamydomonas flagella, wild-type and various mutants.
Chapter 16
genprotec.mbl.edu/start
Database of the E. coli genomeand proteome. Chemotaxis proteins are listed under Cell processes/chemotaxis motility.
www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/levin/index.htm
Dennis Bray's group web site, with data on biochemical reactions of chemotaxis and several downloadable computer simulations.
Chapter 18
zk.bwh.harvard.edu/projects/polymer/actin_chapter/
Basic information on actin filaments from Paul Janmey and colleagues, together with a specialized account of their biophysical properties.
Chapter 20
www.biology.ucsc.edu/people/sullivan/index.html
Web site of William Sullivan's laboratory at Santa Cruz, concerning early development of Drosophila with an emphasis on the cytoskeleton.