Movie 2

Epithelial cells expressing Tubulin:EGFP are shown in a wild-type and in shot null mutant embryos. Empty arrows indicate MTs growing into protrusions, white arrows indicate bending MTs, and arrowhead indicates a MT protruding at the lateral surface of a mutant epithelial cell.

The spectraplakin Short stop is an essential microtubule regulator involved in epithelial closure in Drosophila

Zsanett Takács, Ferenc Jankovics, Péter Vilmos, Péter Lénárt, Katja Röper, and Miklós Erdélyi

J Cell Sci 2017. 130:712-724; doi: 10.1242/jcs.193003