#hemidesmosome

You can see a lot by looking - a little bit of fluorescence microscopy to brighten your day. #microscopy #phdlife @academicchatter

Back in the lab post COVID and Dr Lee Troughton has been on the confocal microscope grabbing some cool pics of corneal epithelial keratinocytes assembling cell to matrix adhesions.

Most of these images are of hemidesomosome proteins (integrin b4, collagen XVII, BPAG1e) or laminin 332. Hemidesmosomes are the points of attachment for where sheets of epithelia attach to the non-cellular…