✦ LIBER ✦
Demonstration by heavy-meromyosin of actin microfilaments in extracted cress (Lepidium sativumL.) root statocytes
✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Hensel
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 676 KB
- Volume
- 173
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0032-0935
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✦ Synopsis
When statocytes of cress root-caps were incubated in an extraction medium containing phalloidin, bundles of microfilaments (6.6 +/- 2.4 nm in diameter) were found in the cortical cytoplasm. The inclusion of heavy-meromyosin in this medium demonstrated an arrowhead pattern on the filaments indicative of the presence of actin.