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  • 101
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984) 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 304-305 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 305-314 
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    Keywords: cell surface motility ; axopodia ; reticulopodia ; Allogromia ; Echinosphaerium (Actinosphaerium) nucleofilum ; surf-riding ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: The mechanism responsible for the energy-dependent movement of membrane components (ie, surface motility) is unknown. Recently a potentially unifying model, termed “surf-riding” [Hewitt, 1979] or “surf-boarding” [Berlin and Oliver, 1982], has been proposed to explain surface motility. Using phase-contrast light microscopy and membrane surface markers (polystyrene microspheres), we have tested the surf-riding/surf-boarding hypothesis on two protozoan systems: the axopodia of the heliozoan Echinosphaerium nucleofilum and the reticulopodial networks of the allogromiid foraminiferans Allogromia laticollaris and Allogromia sp, strain NF. Our evidence indicates that surface motility, as displayed by these organisms, does not occur by a surf-riding/surf-boarding mechanism. Previouś observations on surface motility associated with the Chlamydomonas flagellum indicate that this system is also incompatible with the surf-boarding/surf-riding hypothesis.
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  • 104
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 403-404 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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  • 105
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 103-119 
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    Keywords: cilia ; metachrony ; serum immunoglobulins ; IgM ; Mytilus edulis ; cystic fibrosis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Human IgM and a bovine, IgM-enriched serum fraction isolated from normal adult serum at concentrations of 0.25-1 mg/ml protein induced a pronounced increase in the metachronal wavelength of the lateral (L) cilia of the sea mussel Mytilus edulis without altering their beat frequency. This change in activity was indistinguishable from that induced by 50% adult human or bovine serum. At protein concentrations ranging from 1-9 mg/ml, human IgG or a bovine, IgG-enriched serum fraction had no or little effect on the activity of the L cilia. Similarly, neither monomeric (8S) human IgM (0.25 mg/ml) nor monospecific pentameric IgM (1 mg/ml) isolated from Waldenström's macroglobulinemia patients altered the metachrony of the L cilia. Indirect immunofluorescence demonstrated that both bovine and human IgM became attached almost exclusively to the L cilia, while very little bovine or human IgG was found to associate with these cilia.The results of this study suggest that serum IgM specifically binds to the L cilia of Mytilus in an antigen-antibody manner and agglutinates adjacent cilia into blocks or bundles, thereby increasing the coupling between cilia. As a result, the wavelength of the metachronal coordination is increased. The origin of these ciliary antibodies and their significance to ciliary bioassays used to monitor serum for the detection of cystic fibrosis are discussed.
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  • 106
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    Keywords: microtubule ; tubulin ; MAPs ; calcium ; mitosis ; unfertilized sea urchin egg ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Cytoplasmic tubulin purified from unfertilized sea urchin eggs self-assembles in the absence of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) [Suprenant and Rebhun, 1983; Detrich and Wilson, 1983] with a critical concentration for polymerization of 0.8 mg/ml at 15-18°C, a value well below the 3 mg/ml tubulin present in these eggs [Pfeffer et al, 1976]. Studies of the calcium sensitivity of unfertilized S. purpuratus (sea urchin) egg tubulin were initiated to help understand how this tubulin is maintained unassembled in the unfertilized egg. Egg microtubules, assembled at physiological temperatures (15-18°C) were depolymerized by a 100-fold lower free calcium concentration than egg microtubules assembled at the higher temperatures (25-37°C) generally used to assemble mammalian brain microtubules. The initial rate of egg microtubule assembly was much more sensitive to calcium than was microtubule depolymerization at steady state at 37°C. However, both processes were sensitive to near physiological free calcium of free calcium for depolymerization than microtubules assembled at 18°C from egg tubulin alone. While calcium regulatory MAPs have not yet been found in sea urchin eggs, the fact that brain MAPs interact with egg tubulin and regulate both its critical concentration for polymerization [Suprenant and Rebhun, 1983] and its calcium sensitivty, suggests that such regulatory molecules exist. These results suggest that sea urchin egg tubulin assembly in vivo could be controlled by variations in interacellular calcium levels acting in concert with urchin egg proteins similar in function to brain MAPs.
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  • 107
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    Keywords: fast axonal transport ; mitochondria ; membrane receptors ; cytoskeleton ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: In living tissue, membrane-bound organelles, including mitochondria, move along parallel cytoplasmic pathways. Motion is directed and tends to be confined to a single path. Deviations from this single path motion are rare. When present, however, they tend to occur at points of intersection of cytoskeletal linear elements (LE). Such intersections are relatively uncommon in intact axons and extruded axoplasm. However, we have found that such intersections can be produced in extruded preparations by shear forces directed tangential to the axoplasmic surface.We have studied the detailed behavior of mitochondria in extruded squid axoplasm. Special attention was directed to the relationship between mitochondrial shape changes and orientation of cytoskeletal LE. The most striking of these changes in shape is branching. In this process, the mitochondrion transiently assumes a triradial (three-ended) shape. This appearance may be maintained for seconds to minutes before the normal cylindrical shape is resumed by absorption of either the newly formed end or, more commonly, one of the original ends. The frequency of branching appears to be dependent on the degree of cytoskeletal organization. It becomes more common as the number of apparent intersections between cytoskeletal LE increases. Further, the formation of new ends seems to occur along paths defined by cytoskeletal elements.These observations suggest that the mitochondrial membrane is multivalent. That is, it contains multiple sites capable of interacting with the axonal force generation apparatus. Furthermore, LE in the cytoskeleton may indicate the paths along which these interactions are permissible.
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  • 108
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984) 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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  • 109
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 77-87 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: Chlamydomonas ; flagella ; cell surface ; adhesion ; glycoproteins ; iodination ; lactoperoxidase ; Iodogen ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: The Chlamydomonas flagellar surface exhibits interesting adhesive properties that are associated with flagellar surface motility. This dynamic surface property can be exhibited as the binding and movement of small polystyrene microspheres or as the interaction of the flagellar surface with a solid substrate followed by whole cell locomotion, termed “gliding.” In order to identify flagellar surface proteins that mediate substrate interaction during flagellar surface motility, two immobilized iodination systems were employed that mimic the conditions for flagellar surface motility: small polystyrene microspheres derivatized with lactoperoxidase, and large glass beads derivatized with Iodogen. Use of these iodination conditions resulted in preferential iodination of a high-molecular-weight glycoprotein with apparent molecular weight of 300,000-350,000. These results suggest this glycoprotein as a major candidate for the surface-exposed adhesive component that directly interacts with the substrate and couples the substrate to a system of force transduction presumed to be located within the flagellum.
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  • 110
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 129-135 
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    Keywords: amoeboid motion ; chemoattractants ; chemotaxis ; Dictyostelium ; filopodia ; folic acid ; pterins ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Living vegetative D. discoideum amoebae were studied to determine whether their filopodia respond to folic acid, a chemoattractant for these cells. Exponentially growing amoebae (ca. 10 μm diameter) exhibit 5-30 μm long filopodia; at stationary phase, aggregation competent amoebae have numerous multibranched filopodia up to 100 μm long. Folic acid was observed to stimulate production, elongation, and branching of filopodia with its effects progressively changing as the amoebae approach aggregation. Filopodial construction was also found to be dependent upon Mg2+ levels. The significance of these results is discussed with respect to progressive changes within the vegetative phase as well as to the mechanisms of amoeboid movement, pseudopodial activity, and chemotaxis.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 169-181 
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    Keywords: cytoskeleton ; motility ; cell spreading ; epithelial cells ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Reorganization of intermediate filaments during cell spreading is examined by immunofluorescence, electron microscopy, and time-lapse video microscopy. A juxtanuclear cap, believed to correspond to the intermediate filament distribution center, was observed to be spatially related to the organization of the intermediate filament network as cells spread. A keratin cap was observed, which appeared spontaneously in motile PtK1 cells. Cap formation may be a consequence of retraction of intermediate filaments from the cytoplasm as cells move. The position of this juxtanuclear cap is related to the direction of movement, located on the side of the nucleus near the advancing edge of the cell. As the cell spreads, the cap disappears as the keratin filament network returns to the cytoplasm. Evidence presented here is consistent with the hypothesis that the distribution center mediates keratin filament organization during cell shape change.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984) 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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  • 113
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    Keywords: fibroblast ; permeabilized cell model ; Ca2+-dependent contraction ; calmodulin ; phosphorylation ; myosin light chain ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Human lung fibroblast MRC-5 cells treated with Triton X-100 (MRC-5 cell models) were able to contract in the presence of MgATP and Ca2+ of more than 1 μM. Immunofluorescence microscopy with antibodies to actin and myosin 20,000-dalton (20 Kd) light chain revealed that stress fibers were prominent in MRC-5 cell models. Use of a fluorescent actin probe, 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazole-phallacidin permitted visualization of contraction of the stress fibers in the presence of MgATP and Ca2+. Of the proteins in MRC-5 cell models, only a myosin 20 Kd light chain was phosphorylated in a Ca2+-dependent manner. This Ca2+-dependent phosphorylation of the 20 Kd light chain closely corresponded with the contraction of MRC-5 cell models: 1) Both phosphorylation of the 20 Kd light chain and contraction of MRC-5 cell models were inhibited by calmodulin antagonists such as N-(6-aminohexyl)5-chloro-1-napthalene sulfonamide. 2) The threshold Ca2+ concentration for phosphorylation of the 20 Kd light chain was similar to that for contraction of MRC-5 cell models. Both were lowered by exogenous calmodulin in a concentration-dependent manner. 3) The 20 Kd light chain was thiophosphorylated by incubation of MRC-5 cell models with an ATP analogue, adenosine 5′-0-(3-thiotriphosphate) only in the presence of Ca2+. After this treatment, MRC-5 cell models lost the Ca2+-dependence for contraction. These results indicate that Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation of myosin 20 Kd light chain is required for contraction of MRC-5 cell models.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 443-468 
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    Keywords: actin ; microfilaments ; HMM ; phagocytosis ; cytochalasin ; Paramecium ; fluorescence microscopy ; electron microscopy ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Using heavy meromyosin (HMM) or the fragment S1 of myosin as probes for actin microfilaments, we studied their organization in Paramecium both by fluorescence and electron microscopy.In interphasic cells, HMM decorates (a) most prominently the periphery of nascent and young food vacuoles and their route during the early phase of their intracellular transit; (b) a thin meshwork radiating from the gullet throughout the cytoplasm; (c) a small area beneath the pore of contractile vacuoles and beneath the cytoproct when open to release food residues. Most of these HMM-decorated structures are in close contact with microtubular arrays. All HMM decoration disappears in dividing cells and in cytochalasin-treated cells. In vivo, the drug immediately blocks food vacuole formation but does not affect cytokinesis, cyclosis, contractile vacuole pulsation, defecation, or nuclear movements.The data show that, as in the cells of other organisms, actin microfilaments form defined arrays that undergo physiologically controlled cycles of assembly/disassembly. These arrays contribute (at least in the phagocytotic process) to diverse types of movement: constriction, membrane fusion, and migration of food vacuoles. However, aside from their massive concentration along the phagocytotic tractus, actin microfilaments are neither major structural components of Paramecium cytoplasm nor the only cytoskeletal components ensuring motility or contractility processes.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 371-385 
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    Keywords: microtubules ; dynein ; tubulin ; cilia and flagella ; microtubule associated proteins ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Dynein, obtained from axonemes of Chlamydomonas, binds by both its A and B ends to microtubules assembled from twice cycled (2 ×) and purified (6S) brain tubulin as well as to microtubules in native spindles, thereby inducing microtubule crossbridging. The two ends of the dynein arm exhibit distinct binding characteristics for the different microtubule preparations. Greater than 99% of the dynein arms are bound exclusively by their B ends to microtubules assembled from 6S tubulin in the presence of dynein and decorated to saturation. In contrast, greater than 80% of the dynein arms are bound by both their A and B ends to and, therefore, crossbridge 6S microtubules that are only partially dynein decorated. Binding of the A end of the dynein arm to saturated 6S microtubules can be enhanced by destabilizing the binding of the B end upon addition of ATP and vanadate. These observations suggest that Chlamydomonas dynein arms can bind by their A ends to microtubules assembled from 6S tubulin only when the B ends of the arms either are not bound or are bound but do not occupy all available dynein binding sites. Dynein exhibits a slight preference for binding by its A end to microtubules assembled from 2 × tubulin and containing microtubule associated proteins (MAPs). Approximately 90% of the dynein arms crossbridge adjacent 2 × microtubles that are only partially decorated. But as saturation of these microtubules with dynein is approached, the majority of the arms are bound solely by their A ends, while a smaller percentage are bound by their B ends or by both their A and B ends. These studies indicate that the type of microtubule as well as the degree of saturation of the microtubule with dynein can determine whether microtubule crossbridging occurs.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 405-416 
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    Keywords: cardiac muscle ; myofibril ; cell spreading ; Z bands ; alpha-actinin ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Cardiac myocytes were isolated from 5-6-day-old chick embryos and allowed to spread in culture. The distribution of alpha-actinin in the cells was followed for five days in culture by exposing permeabilized cells to rhodamine-labeled alpha-actinin and also by injecting the labeled alpha-actinin into living myocytes. In addition to labeling the Z bands of sarcomeres, the added alpha-actinin also labeled small particles that were usually arranged periodically in linear arrays with a spacing between particles of 0.3-2.0 μm. Actin was localized between the particles of alpha-actinin by means of fluorescein-labeled heavy meromyosin. The punctate localization of alpha-actinin was prominent in pseudopods, behind ruffles, and at the periphery of spreading cells. Long rows of particles of alpha-actinin were often parallel to one another with the alpha-actinin particles in register. These linear arrays appeared to merge laterally to form strands with broader concentrations of alpha-actinin. Other linear arrays were parallel to myofibrils in the cell and some extended outward from the ends of myofibrils. We conclude that during spreading of cardiac myocytes, myofibrils form at the cell periphery behind the extending margins of the cell, and that the aggregates of alpha-actinin found in these areas are nascent Z bands in the forming myofibrils.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984) 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984) 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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  • 119
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 4 (1984), S. 431-441 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: dynein ; chromatophores ; permeabilization ; melanosomes ; motility ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Teleost chromatophores are filled with individual pigment granules that rapidly aggregate to the cell center or become dispersed throughout the cytoplasm in response to environmental stimuli. Microtubules appear to be required for pigment aggregation (movement toward the cell center), and recent findings have suggested that a dynein-like ATPase may participate in force production. Based on previous studies, however, it has been argued that pigment aggregation does not require energy directly, a view that supports the involvement of an elastic component in granule movement. To examine this point further, we have reinvestigated the energy requirements for pigment aggregation using both intact cells and detergent-permeabilized cell models of Fundulus melanophores. Poisons of oxidative phosphorylation, namely, 2,4 dinitrophenol and NaCN, reversibly inhibit melanosome aggregation in response to adrenaline. Inhibition of movement results directly from depletion of intracellular ATP, since pigment translocation can be reactivated in permeabilized cells by the addition of exogenous ATP to the lysis buffer. Non-hydrolyzable analogues, including β,γ-imidoadenosine-5′-triphosphate (AMPPNP), β,γ-methylene adenosine-5′-triphosphate (AMPPCP), and ATPγS, will not substitute for ATP in reactivation of movement. Similarly, other nucleotides such as ADP, AMP, GTP, CTP, and ITP, have limited ability to support melanosome aggregation in metabolically poisoned cells subjected to detergent lysis. ATP itself has no effect on intact cells. These results indicate that melanosome aggregation is ATP-dependent and energy-driven, and are consistent with a role for a force-transducing ATPase in particle movement.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 261-269 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: membrane proteins ; lateral organization ; chloroplast, chlorophyll ; phosphorylation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Freeze-fracture electron microscopy has revealed that different size classes of intramembrane particles of chloroplast membranes are nonrandomly distributed between appressed grana and nonappressed stroma membrane regions. It is now generally assumed that thylakoid membranes contain five major functional complexes, each of which can give rise to an intramembrane particle of a defined size. These are the photosystem II complex, the photosystem I complex, the cytochrome f/b6 complex, the chlorophyll a/b light-harvesting complex, and the CF0-CF1 ATP synthetase complex. By mapping the distribution of the different categories of intramembrane particles, information on the lateral organization of functional membrane units of thylakoid membranes can be determined. In this review, we present a brief summary of the evidence supporting the correlation of specific categories of intramembrane particles with known biochemical entities. In addition, we discuss studies showing that ions and phosphorylation of the membrane adhesion factor, the chlorophyll a/b light-harvesting, complex, can affect the lateral organization of chloroplast membrane components and thereby regulate membrane function.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 271-285 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: photosystem development ; chloroplast structure ; chloroplast function ; photosynthetic unit ; gene expression ; regulation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: The light environment during plant growth determines the structural and functional properties of higher plant chloroplasts, thus revealing a dynamically regulated developmental system. Pisum sativum plants growing under intermittent illumination showed chloroplasts with fully functional photosystem (PS) II and PSI reaction centers that lacked the peripheral chlorophyll (Chi) a/b and Chl a light-harvesting complexes (LHC), respectively. The results suggest a light flux differential threshold regulation in the biosynthesis of the photosystem core and peripheral antenna complexes. Sun-adapted species and plants growing under far-red-depleted illumination showed grana stacks composed of few (3-5) thylakoids connected with long intergrana (stroma) thylakoids. They had a PSII/PSI reaction center ratio in the range 1.3-1.9. Shade-adapted species and plants growing under far-red-enrichcd illumination showed large grana stacks composed of several thylakoids, often extending across the entire chloroplast body, and short intergrana stroma thylakoids. They had a higher PSII/PSI reaction center ratio, in the range of 2.2-4.0. Thus, the relative extent of grana and stroma thylakoid formation corresponds with the relative amounts of PSII and PSI in the chloroplast, respectively. The structural and functional adaptation of the photosynthetic membrane system in response to the quality of illumination involves mainly a control on the rate of PSII and PSI complex biosynthesis.
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  • 122
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: reaction center ; Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides ; ubiquinone ; herbicide activity ; herbicide resistance ; herbicide specificity ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: A select group of herbicides that inhibit photosystem II also act at the acceptor side of the reaction center (RC) from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides, with much the same relative specificity as in plants. These include the triazines and some phenolic compounds. The proposal that herbicides inhibit the electron transfer from the primary quinone (QA) to the secondary quinone (QB) by competing for the secondary quinone binding site - the B-site -  [5], is tested here with terbutryn, the most potent of the triazines. Competition between terbutryn and ubiquinone (Q-10) was observed using the kinetics of the back-reaction as a measure of inhibition. The model includes binding equilibria before and after flash activation. The binding constants for the preflash (dark) equilibria, for reaction centers in 0.14% lauryl dimethylamine-N-oxide (LDAO), were KiD = 0.8 μM terbutryn, KqD = 2 μM Q-10; both are detergent-concentration dependent. After flash activation, binding equilibrium is not fully restored on the time scale of the back-reaction because terbutryn unbinds slowly. This gives rise to biphasic decay kinetics from which koff for terbutryn was estimated to be 3 sec-1. Titrations of the rate of the slow back reaction indicated that the post-flash equilibrium is less sensitive to inhibitor, in a manner that is independent of the much stronger binding of the semiquinone, QB-, and indicative of a direct effect of the redox state of QA on the affinity of the B-site for ligands. However, the effects on KiL and KqD could not be separated: either KiL 〉 KiD or KqD 〈 KqD. Some triazine-resistant mutants have been isolated and are described. All appear to be herbicide binding site mutants. Whole cells and photosynthetic membrane vesicles (chromatophores) exhibit a 10-50-fold increase in resistance to triazines due, in large part, to an increase in the rate of unbinding (koff). The modifications of the binding site appear to diminish the affinity of the B-site for ubiquinone as well as terbutryn. It is concluded that bacterial RCs are a useful model for the study of herbicide activity and specificity.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 287-295 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: Trypanosoma brucei ; variable surface glycoprotein ; gene duplication ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: The variable surface glycoprotein (VSG) genes of Trypanosoma brucei have been classified into two groups depending upon whether or not duplication of the genes is observed when they are expressed. We report here the observation of duplication apparently linked to espression of the ILTaT 1.3 gene in the ETaR 1 trypanosome stock. In the ILTaR 1 stock, expression of the ILTaT 1.3 VSG did not involve a new duplication, but instead activation of a preexisting gene copy that had been apparently generated earlier by a duplication event analogous to that directly observed in the ETaR 1 trypanosomes. The results suggest that the well-characterised gene duplications found with other VSG genes are common to all VSG genes but are not directly responsible for controlling expression. All currently available data can be accomodated by a model that assumes that gene duplication and replacement occurs independently of antigenic switching.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984) 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 297-306 
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    Keywords: Plasmodium knowlesi ; variant antigen ; schizont-infected erythrocyte ; detergents ; radioiodination ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Four detergents have been compared for identification of the Plasmodium knowlesi variant antigen on infected erythrocytes by immunoprecipitation analysis. Erythrocytes infected with late trophozoite and schizont forms of cloned asexual parasites were labeled by lactoperoxidase-catalyzed radioiodination and extracted either with the anionic detergents sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) or cholate, the neutral detergent Triton X-100, or the zwitterion 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)di-methylammonio]-1-propane sulfonate (CHAPS). After addition of Triton X-100 to SDS and cholate extracts, parallel immunoprecipitations of the four extracts were performed using rhesus monkey antisera of defined agglutinability. Identical results were obtained with clone Pkl(A+ ), which has 125I-variant antigens of Mr 210,000 and 190,000, and with clone Pkl(B+)l+, which hasvariant antigens of Mr 200,000-205,000. SDS yielded maximal levels of immunoprecipitated 125I-variant antigens. Variant-specific immunoprecipitation was detected in some experiments with Triton X-100 and cholic acid but with significantly lower recovery than with SDS. CHAPS extraction did not yield the variant antigens on immunoprecipitation. The variant antigens could also be identified in Triton X-100-insoluble material by subsequent extraction with SDS, indicating that failure to recover these proteins in the Triton X-100-soluble fraction is due to failure of this detergent to extract the variant antigens rather than to degradation during extraction. We suggest that the 125I-variant antigens either have a structure that renders them intrinsically insoluble in Triton X-100, cholate, or CHAPS, or that they are associated in some way with host cell membrane components that also resist solubilization by these detergents.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 319-330 
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    Keywords: phosphomannosyl receptor ; detergent dissociation ; mannose 6-phosphate ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We have reported previously the isolation and partial characterization of a 215-kilodalton (Kd) phosphomannosyl binding protein from bovine liver membranes [3,9]. In the present studies evidence is presented that the binding protein is an aggregate. Four N-terminal amino acids were detected, and the complex could be dissociated into subunits.Bovine liver membranes were extracted with the detergent, Zwittergent, in the presence of protease inhibitors. The extract was subjected to affinity chromatography on phosphomannan-Sepharose 4B, and proteins with apparent Mr values of 215 and 57 Kd were eluted with mannose 6-phosphate. As reported previously, extraction with Triton X-100 yielded only the higher molecular weight material. When the binding protein was incubated at 4°C in the presence of Zwittergent TM 3-14 the 215-Kd form slowly dissociated into smaller subunits; after two months, the major species had an apparent Mr of 57 Kd. The subunits derived from the binding protein were recognized by antiserum raised against purified binding protein. Dissociation of the binding protein by Zwittergent was enhanced by incubation at 37°C, the presence of dithiothreitol, and low pH values. The subunit mixture enriched in the 57-Kd subunit had a lowered ability to bind ligands containing the phosphomannosyl recognition marker. Binding was partially restored (〉48% of the initial value) when dissociated receptor was back exchanged with Triton X-100.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 307-317 
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    Keywords: secretory component ; bile ; IgA ; immunoblot ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Secretory component is a receptor for polymeric immunoglobulins on epithelial cells and hepatocytes that facilitates transport of polymeric immunoglobulins into external secretions. Little is known about the transcellular migration of secretory component-polymeric IgA complexes or the membrane forms of secretory component. We therefore examined rat bile and liver membranes to identify and compare the various molecular species of secretory component. Bile or liver membrane proteins were electrophoresed in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels and electrophoretically transferred to nitrocellulose membranes. Protein profiles on blots were probed with antisecretory, component antiserum, and the immunoreactive bands were visualized by indirect immunoperoxidase staining. Bile collected in the presence of proteolytic inhibitors showed an immunoreactive doublet band (Mr = 82,000 and 78,000) in the molecular weight range of free secretory component. By contrast, free secretory component in bile collected in the absence of proteolytic inhibitors and purified by affinity chromatography migrated as a single protein with an Mr = 70,000. Both components of the free secretory component doublet bound dimeric IgA when blots were probed with human dimeric IgA. Crude liver membranes prepared in the presence of proteolytic inhibitors showed two immunoreactive secretory component-containing bands, Mr = 107,000 and 99,000, whereas membranes prepared without proteolytic inhibitors showed two smaller immunoreactive bands; one of these proteolytically severed proteins comigrated with the 82,000-dalton free secretory component in bile. These results indicate that membrane forms of secretory component are present in rat liver. The observations that the membrane secretory component is larger than biliary free secretory component and yields biliary SC-like forms of secretory component upon proteolysis support the hypothesis that free secretory component in bile is a proteolytic product of larger liver membrane-associated secretory component.
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    Keywords: leucine binding protein ; protein secretion ; proteolysis ; degradation ; site-directed mutagenesis ; membrane potential ; processing ; periplasmic proteins ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The leucine-specific binding protein (LS-BP), a periplasmic component of the Escherichia coli high-affinity leucine transport system, is initially synthesized in a precursor form with a 23 amino acid N-terminal leader sequence that is removed during secretion of the protein into the periplasm. Using in vitro mutagenesis, deletion mutants of the LS-BP gene have been constructed with altered or missing amino acid sequences in the C-terminal portion of the protein. These altered binding proteins exhibited normal processing and secretion but were rapidly degraded in the periplasmic space. In the presence of an uncoupler of the transmembrane potential (CCCP) the precursor forms accumulated in the membrane and were protected from degradation. The altered binding proteins also were secreted by spheroplasts of E coli, after which they were easily detected.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 345-356 
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    Keywords: bacterial protein secretion ; transmembrane potential ; secondary structure prediction ; protein folding ; electric field ; domain formation ; binding proteins ; periplasmic ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The synthesis and processing of the periplasmic components of the leucine transport system of E coli have been studied to determine the role played by transmembrane potential in protein secretion. Both the leucine-isoleucine-valine binding protein and the leucine-specific binding protein are synthesized as precursors with 23 amino acid N-terminal leader sequences. The processing of these precursors is sensitive to the transmembrane potential. Since the amino acid sequence and the crystal structure have been determined for the leucine-isoleucine-valine binding protein, it and the closely related leucine-specific binding protein represent convenient models in which to examine the mechanism of protein secretion in E coli. A model for secretion has been proposed, suggesting a role for transmembrane potential. In this model, the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the precursor is assumed to form a hairpin of two helices. The membrane potential may orient this structure to make it accessible to processing. In addition, the model suggests that a negatively charged, folded domain of the secretory protein may electrophorese toward the trans-positive side of the membrane, thus providing an additional role for the transmembrane potential.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 25 (1984) 
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    Keywords: PEP: Sugar Phosphotransferase ; protein kinase ; phosphohistidine ; enzyme IIsugar ; factor IIIsugar ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Phosphoproteins produced by the incubation of crude extracts of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli with either [32P]phosphoenolpyruvate or [γ32P]ATP have been resolved and detected using sodium dodecyl sulphate poly-acrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. Simple techniques were found such that distinctions could be made between phosphoproteins containing acid-labile or stable phosphoamino acids and between N1-P-histidine and N3-P-histidine. Phosphoproteins were found to be primarily formed from phosphoenolpyruvate, but because of an efficient phosphoexchange, ATP also led to the formation of the major phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphoproteins. These proteins had the following apparent subunit molecular weights: 65,000, 65,000, 62,000, 48,000, 40,000, 33,000, 25,000, 20,000, 14,000, 13,000, 9,000, 8,000. Major ATP-dependent phosphoproteins were detected with apparent subunit molecular weights of 75,000, 46,000, 30,000, and 15,000. Other minor phosphoproteins were detected. The phosphorylation of the 48,000- and 25,000-MW proteins by phos-phoenolpyruvate was independent of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phospho-transferase system (PTS). The PTS phosphoproteins were identified as enzyme I (soluble; MW = 65,000); enzyme IIN-acetylglucosamine (membrane bound; MW = 65,000); enzyme IImannitol (membrane bound; MW = 62,000); IIIfructose (soluble; MW = 40,000); IIImannose (partially membrane associated; MW = 33,000); IIIglucose (soluble; MW = 20,000); IIIglucitol (soluble; MW = 13-14,000); HPr (soluble; MW = 9,000); FPr (fructose induced HPr-like protein (soluble; MW = 8,000). HPr and FPr are phosphorylated on the N-1 position of a histidyl residue while all the others appear to be phosphorylated on an N-3 position of a histidyl residue. These studies identify some previously unknown proteins of the PTS and show the phosphorylation of others, which although previously known, had not been shown to be phosphoproteins.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 25 (1984), S. 161-182 
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    Keywords: electrophoresis ; NEPHGE ; leukemia ; differentiation ; nuclear proteins ; G-CSF ; flourescence-activated cell sorting ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: In response to a differentiation factor (G-CSF) the myelomonocytic leukemia cell line (WEHI-3B(D+) differentiates to form mature macrophages and neutrophils. The effect of G-CSF on WEHI-3B(D+) differentiation was augmented by low concentrations (5 ng/ml) of actinomycin D. Quantitative binding of an antineutrophil serum was used to segregate the differentiated cells from the leukemic blast cells. Molecular markers of later myeloid differentiation were detected in myelocytes and macrophages purified from differentiating WEHI-3B(D+ ) cells. To study the initial molecular processes associated with the initiation of WEHI-3B(D+) cells to differentiation, the protein changes were analyzed using gel electrophoresis. Quantitative analysis of the fluorographs from the two-dimensional (2D) electrophorograms of the 35S-labeled proteins revealed major changes in the biosynthetic rates for 16 proteins within 5 hr: The biosynthesis of six proteins was increased and another ten proteins were synthesized at a reduced rate. Two of the proteins (17K and 36K daltons) were located in the nucleus. Pulse-chase experiments indicated that protein turnover for these proteins was rapid but the degradation of four proteins was suppressed. At least six of the proteins (16K to 120K daltons) were acidic and were associated with the cytoplasm. Electrophoretic analysis of the 35S-labeled proteins indicated that a 35K protein induced by G-CSF was found in high abundance only in purified cells of intermediate differentiation (eg, myelocytes). Other proteins (eg, a very high molecular weight protein, and a 16K dalton protein) were obviously late markers of differentiated neutrophils or macrophages.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 25 (1984), S. 183-196 
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    Keywords: glycosaminoglycans ; murine tumors ; host-tumor cell interactions ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Three types of murine tumors, B-16 melanoma, A-10 carcinoma, and S-180 sarcoma, were shown to contain elevated glycosaminoglycan (GAG) concentrations in vivo as compared to normal muscle or subcutaneous tissue. Hyaluronate was especially concentrated in the A-10 carcinoma, which contained approximately six times more hyaluronate than subcutaneous tissue and 18 times more than muscle. In all three tumors, chondroitin sulfates, especially chondroitin-4-sulfate, were present in higher concentrations than in the. normal tissues. In culture, however, all three tumor cell lines produced less than 5% as much GAG as mouse fibroblasts, when measured by incorporation of [3H] acetate or by chemical analysis. Varying the culture passage number or the medium composition, ie, glucose, serum, and insulin concentrations, had little effect on GAG synthesis by the tumor cells. The low GAG levels in the tumor cell cultures were not due to hyaluronidase activity in their media. In an attempt to mimic possible host-tumor cell interactions that could account for the elevated GAG levels in vivo, tumor cells were cocultured with fibroblasts, but no stimulation above the amount made by the tumor cells alone plus that by the fibroblasts alone was observed. Conditioned media from the tumor cells, either dialyzed or not against fresh complete medium, had no effect on fibroblast GAG synthesis. Tumor extracts, however, were found to stimulate synthesis of hyaluronate by fibroblasts. Stimulation by extracts of A-10 carcinoma was greater than and additive to that of serum. The above results strongly suggest that GAG production in these tumors is in pail regulated by host-tumor interactions.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984) 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 25 (1984), S. 197-212 
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    Keywords: calmodulin ; dynein ; ATPase ; anion ; solubilization ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The basal ATPase activity of 30S dynein, whether obtained by extraction of ciliary axonemes with a high (0.5 M NaCl) or low (1 mM Tris-0.1 mM EDTA) ionic strength buffer is increased by NaCl, NaNO3, and Na acetate, with NaNO3 causing the largest increase. The calmodulin-activated ATPase activity of 30S dynein is also increased by addition of NaCl, NaNO3, or Na acetate, but the effects are less pronounced than on basal activity, so that the calmodulin activation ratio (CAR) decreases to 1.0 as salt concentration increases to 0.2 M. These salts also reduce the CAR of 14S dynein ATPase to 1.0 but by strongly inhibiting the calmodulin-activated ATPase activity and only slightly inhibiting the basal activity. Sodium fluoride differs both quantitatively and qualitatively from the other three salts studied. It inhibits the ATPase activity of both 14S and 30S dyneins at concentrations below 5 mM and, by a stronger inhibition of the calmodulin-activated ATPase activities, reduces the CAR to 1.0. Na acetate does not inhibit axonemal ATPase, nor does it interfere with the drop in turbidity caused by ATP and extracts very little protein from the axonemes. NaCl and, especially, NaNO3, cause a slow decrease in A350 of an axonemal suspension and an inhibition of the turbidity response to ATP. NaF, at concentrations comparable to those that inhibit the ATPase activities of the solubilized dyneins, also inhibits axonemal ATPase activity and the turbidity response. Pretreatment of demembranated axonemes with a buffer containing 0.25 M sodium acetate for 5 min followed by extraction for 5 min with a buffer containing 0.5 M NaCl and resolution of the extracted dynein on a sucrose density gradient generally yields a 30S dynein that is activated by calmodulin in a heterogeneous manner, ie, the “light” 30S dynein ATPase fractions are more activated than the “heavy” 30S dynein fractions. These results demonstrate specific anion effects on the basal and calmodulin-activated dynein ATPase activities, on the extractability of proteins from the axoneme, and on the turbidity response of demembranated axonemes to ATP. They also provide a method that frequently yields 30S dynein fractions with ATPase activities that are activated over twofold by added calmodulin.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 117-125 
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    Keywords: gene expression ; amelogenins ; cDNA ; type II cells ; pulmonary surfactant ; ameloblasts ; epithelial differentiation ; regional mesenchymal specificity ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: One of the major problems in developmental biology concerns how differential gene activity is regionally controlled. One approach to this problem is the use of mesenchyme specification of epithelial-specific gene expression, such as, during tooth morphogenesis or lung morphogenesis. In the example of tooth morphogenesis, dental papilla ectomcsenchyme induces de novo gene expression as assayed by detection of amelogenin transcripts, or immunodetection of amelogenin poly-peptidcs within ameloblast cells. This process does not require serum supplementation or exogenous factors during epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in vitro. In contrast, lung morphogenesis requires hormones to mediate mesenchyme-derived influences upon type II epithelial cell differentiation and the production of pulmonary surfactant (eg, neutral and phospholipids, surfactant proteins). Glucocorticoids are required to stimulate the release of fetal pneumonocyte factor (FPF) from fibroblasts which, in turn, enhance the production of pulmonary surfactant. Thy-roxin appears to regulate the relative responsiveness of progenitor type II cells to steroid-stimulated release of FPF. This review will highlight key concepts associated with these developing organ systems and emphasize the problem of regional controls which regulate epithelial cell-specific gene activity.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 127-133 
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    Keywords: radioimmunoassay ; superior cervical ganglion ; heparin sulfate ; transsynaptic regulation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The effect of neonatal deafferentation on the expression of a neuronal cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HeS-PG) was investigated in the developing rat superior cervical ganglion. Two monoclonal antibodies, one directed against the core protein of HeS-PG, and one to a determinant associated with a heparan sulfate side-chain, were used to monitor postnatal increases of HeS-PG by ra-dioiminunoassay. Following neonatal deafferentation by section of the cervical sympathetic trunk, total protein per ganglion was slightly reduced at survival times of 7, 14, and 30 days. Expression of the core protein determinant on HeS-PG was not altered in deafferented ganglia. In contrast, levels of side-chain determinant were significantly reduced at 14 and 30 days. These results suggest that processing of HeS-PG side-chains by principal ganglionic neurons is partially regulated by transsynaptic influences during development. Transsynaptic regulation of neuronal development may be a more general process than was believed previously, with effects not limited to molecules associated with synaptic development.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 135-146 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 83-93 
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    Keywords: DNA binding protein ; polyoma virus ; moddle-T ; retroviruses ; oncogenes ; transforming proteins ; SV40 large-T ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Cellular oncogenes and their activated and retrovirus-coded counterparts play an important role in cellular regulation. Here the relationship between such oncogenes and the genes coding for the transforming proteins of the papovaviruses, polyoma viruses, and simian virus 40 (SV40) is discussed. It is concluded that polyoma virus may transform established cells by a mechanism involving activation of a cellular oncogene product, whereas SV40 may transform by a mechanism involving a previously little studied cytoplasmic form of the transforming protein.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 147-156 
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    Keywords: VIP ; oligodeoxynucleotides ; mRNAs ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: To understand the regulation of the production of peptide hormones, it is vital to elucidate their biosynthetic pathways. We chose to study a major regulatory peptide, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), a peptide possessing both neurotransmitter and neurohormone actions. To identify the specific peptide mRNA we are using, as hybridization probes, radiolabeled synthetic oligodcoxynucleotides with sequence complementary to the predicted peptide mRNA sequence. Employing this approach, we identified and partially purified a ∼ 1600-base long mRNA containing VIP related sequences which can be translated in vitro into VIP-immunoreactive polypeptides. Such mRNA was detected in normal VIP producing tissue (rat brain), as well as in a tumor producing VIP (human buccal tumor). This mRNA differs in size from a known VIP-mRNA identified in human neuro-blastoma cells, suggesting the possibility of different VIP-mRNAs in different cell types.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 35-45 
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    Keywords: desmosome ; immunological analysis ; immunoblotting ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: A panel of monoclonal antibodies and conventional antisera directed against desmosomal proteins from bovine muzzle epidermis was used Io identify immunologically related proteins from two other bovine stratified squamous epithelia, cornea and esophagus. Desmosome-enriched tissue fractions were prepared from epidermis, cornea, and esophagus. These tissue extracts were electrophoresed on sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gels, blotted onto nitrocellulose paper, and labeled using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique. Labeling with the conventional antisera demonstrates that each of the previously characterized epidermal desmosomal proteins or protein families has an immunologically cross-reacting counterpart in cornea and esophagus. However, chemical differences between homologous desmosomal proteins in these three tissues have also been detected. The corresponding proteins in the different tissues have similar but not always identical apparent molecular weights. Moreover, tissue-restricted antigenic determinants were detected in two of the desmosomal protein families using four monoclonal antibodies, each of which recognizes a distinct antigenic determinant.
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    Keywords: proteoglycan ; core Protein N terminus ; carbamylation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: A ternary complex of hyaluronic acid-binding region and link protein bound to hyaluronic acid was isolated from limit clostripain digests of proteoglycan aggregates isolated from the Swarm rat chondrosarcoma. Under these conditions, the hyaluronic acid-binding region has a molecular weight of ≅ 65,000 (HA-BR65). N-terminal amino acids in the complex were selectively l4C-carbamylated. The resulting derivatized HA-BR65 was isolated, and tryptic peptide maps were prepared and developed on two-dimensional TLC sheets. A single, labeled peptide was obtained which gave a Mr by ≅ 8,000 by SDS-PAGE. Chymotrypsin digestion of the ternary complex reduced the molecular weight of HA-BR65 to a polypeptide of ≅ 55,000 (HA-BR55) which still retains the same N-terminal tryptic peptide. Partial digestion of proteoglycan aggregates with clostripain generated a series of larger intermediates with the hyaluronic acid-binding region. Direct SDS-PAGE analysis revealed one major intermediate with Mr ≅ 109,000 (HA-BR109) as well as HA-BR65. After chondroitinase digestion, two additional prominent intermediates were observed on a SDS-PAGE gel at Mr ≅ 120,000 (HA-BR120) and ≅ 140,000 (HA-BR140). All the intermediates were recognized by a monoclonal antibody specific for the hyaluronic acid-binding region, and all of them contained the same N-terminal tryptic peptide. The results indicate that the N terminus of the core protein is at the hyaluronic acid-binding end of the proteoglycan and that the chondroitin sulfate chains are first present on the core protein in a region between 109,000 and 120,000 molecular weight away from the N terminus.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 261-278 
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    Notes: Biosynthesis of cartilage proteoglycan was examined in a model system of cultured chondrocytes from a transplantable rat chondrosarcoma. Extensive modification with the addition of chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycan, N-linkcd oligosac-charide, and O-linked oliogosaccharide is required to convert a newly synthesized core protein precursor into a proteoglycan. Kinetic analyses revealed the presence of a large pool of core protein precursor (t1/2 ∼ 90 min) awaiting completion into proteoglycan. The large t1/2 of this pool allowed kinetic labeling experiments with a variety of radioactive precursors to distinguish between early biosynthetic events associated primarily with the rough endoplasmic reticulum from late events associated primarily with the Golgi apparatus. The results of a series of experiments indicated that the addition of N-linked oligosaccharide chains occurs early in the biosynthetic process in association with the rough endoplasmic reticulum, whereas the initiation and completion of O-linked oligosaccharides occurs much later, at about the same time as chondroitin sulfate synthesis. This also indicated that keratan sulfate chains, when present in the completed molecule, are added in the Golgi apparatus, as they are probably built on oligosaccharide primers closely related to the O-oligosaccharide chains. Furthermore, when 3H-glucose was used as the precursor, the entry of label into xylose, the linkage sugar between the core protein and the chondroitin sulfate chain, was found to occur within 5 min of the entry of label into galactose and galactosamine in the remainder of the chondroitin sulfate chain. This indicated that the initiation and completion of the chondroitin sulfate chain occurs late in the pathway probably entirely in the Golgi apparatus. Thus, proteoglycan synthesis can be described as occurring in two stages in this system, translation and N-glycosylation of a core protein precursor which has a long half-life in the rough endoplasmic reticulum, followed by extensive rapid modification in the Golgi complex in which the majority of glycosaminoglycan and oligosaccharide chains are added to the core protein precursor with subsequent rapid secretion into the extracellular matrix.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 1-23 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 225-302 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 91-117 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 1-89 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 119-164 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 91-102 
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    Keywords: malaria ; inbred mice ; genetic control of resistance ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Strain variation in the level of resistance to malaria was investigated in inbred mice after infection with Plasmodium chabaudi. Following intraperitoneal infection with the typing dose of parasitized erythrocytes, mice of 11 inbred strains could be separated using survival time as the criterium into resistant and susceptible groups. Genetic analysis of F1 hybrid and backcross progeny derived from one of the most resistant (B10.A) and from the most susceptible (A/J) strains as parents suggested that host resistance in this strain combination was genetically controlled by a dominant, non-H-2-linked, autosomal gene or closely linked genes. Analysis of the mechanisms of resistance to P chabaudi showed (1) phenotypic expression of the resistance gene was apparent within 6 days of infection as a significant difference between resistant and susceptible mice in the level of parasitemia; (2) the level of host NK cell activity was not related to the level of host resistance to malaria; (3) compared with susceptible A/J mice, resistant B1O.A hosts had an augmented erythropoietic response during the course of malaria as well as during phenylhydrazine-induced anemia and (4) treatment with BCG or P acnes resulted in an equal degree of protection, measured by parasitemia and survival, in both resistant and susceptible mice.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 207-216 
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    Keywords: alpha-helical analysis ; fumarate reductase ; membrane protein structure ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: By a recombinant DNA approach we have prepared Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membranes that are highly enriched in the terminal electron transfer enzyme fumarate reductase. This enzyme is composed of four nonidentical subunits in equal molar ratio. A 69,000-dalton covalent flavin-containing subunit and a 27,000-dalton nonheme iron-containing subunit make up a membrane extrinsic catalytic domain. Two very hydrophobic subunits of 15,000 and 13,000 daltons make up the hydrophobic membrane anchor domain. Electron microscopy of negatively stained membranes shows a characteristic knob-and-stalk-type structure composed of the catalytic domain. The anchor polypeptides have been analyzed for hydrophobic segments and α-helical content and a model for their organization within the lipid bilayer is presented. The results reviewed in this paper suggest a model for the fumarate reductase complex in the cytoplasmic membrane
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 197-206 
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    Keywords: antithrombin III ; thrombin ; receptor-mediated endocytosis ; protease regulation ; hepatocyte receptors ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The in vivo clearance of antithrombin III-proteinase complexes occurs via a specific and saturable pathway located on hepatocytes. We now report studies of the catabolism of antithrombin III-proteinase complexes in vitro using rat hepatocytes in primary culture. Antithrombin III-thrombin and trypsin complexes were prepared and purified to homogeneity. Ligand uptake by hepatocytes was concentration, temperature, and time dependent. Initial rate studies were performed to characterize the maximum rate of uptake, V, and apparent Michaelis constant Kapp. These studies yielded a V of 12.8 fmol/mg cell protein/min and a Kapp of 144 nM for antithrombin-trypsin complexes. Competition experiments with antithrombin III, antithrombin III-proteinase complexes, α2-macroglobulin-methylamine, asialoorosomucoid and the neoglycoproteins, fucosyl-bovine serum albumin (BSA), N-acetylglucosammyl-BSA, and mannosyl-BSA indicated that only antithrombin III-proteinase complexes were recognized by the hepatocyte receptor. Uptake studies were performed at 37°C with 125I-antithrombin III-trypsin and analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in conjunction with autoradiography. These studies demonstrate time-dependent uptake and degradation of the ligand to low molecular weight peptides. In addition, there was a time-dependent accumulation of a high molecular weight complex of ligand and a cellular protein. This complex disappeared when gels were performed under reducing conditions.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 217-228 
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    Keywords: linker mutagenesis ; outer membrane ; lambda receptor ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: In order to identify sequences involved in the localization of LamB, an outer membrane protein from E coli K12, mutagenesis by linker insertion has been performed on a lamB gene copy carried on a plasmid devised for this purpose. An analysis of the first set of 16 clones constructed by this technique shows that, in these clones, the lamB protein is altered either by frameshift mutations leading to abnormal COOH terminal (usually premature termination) or by in-phase deletions or small insertions. Except for two in-phase linker insertions, which only slightly changed the behavior of the protein, the modified proteins are either toxic to cell growth or unstable. In all cases examined so far, the modified proteins were in the outer membrane. We suggest that toxicity is due to incorrect folding, which leads to disruption of the outer membrane. The nature of the genetic alterations leads to the hypothesis that the first 183 amino acids of the LamB mature protein contain, together with the signal sequence, all the instructions needed for proper localization.
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    Keywords: cytochrome oxidase ; subunit V ; nuclear genes ; assembly ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; pet mutants ; mitochondria ; biogenesis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: A nuclear pet mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is defective in the structural gene for subunit V of cytochrome c oxidase has been identified and used to clone the subunit V gene (COX5) by complementation. This mutant, E4-238 [24], and its revertant, JM110, produce variant forms of subunit V. In comparison to the wild-type polypeptide (Mr = 12,500), the polypeptides from E4-238 and JM110 have apparent molecular weights of 9,500 and 13,500, respectively. These mutations directly alter the subunit V structural gene rather than a gene required for posttranslational processing or modification of subunit V because they are cis-acting in diploid cells; that is, both parental forms of subunit V are produced in heteroallelic diploids formed from crosses between the mutant, revertant, and wild type. Several plasmids containing the COX5 gene were isolated by transformation of JM28, a derivative of E4-238, with DNA from a yeast nuclear DNA library in the vector YEp13. One plasmid, YEp13-511, with a DNA insert of 4.8 kilobases, was characterized in detail. It restores respiratory competency and cytochrome oxidase activity in JM28, encodes a new form of subunit V that is functionally assembled into mitochondria, and is capable of selecting mRNA for subunit V. The availability of mutants altered in the structural gene for subunit V (COX5) and of the COX5 gene on a plasmid, together with the demonstration that plasmid-encoded subunit V is able to assemble into a functional holocytochrome c oxidase, enables molecular genetic studies of subunit V assembly into mitochondria and holocytochrome c oxidase.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 25 (1984) 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 373-384 
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    Keywords: dyneins ; calmodulin ; cilia ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Cilia from the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis were demembranated and then extracted for 5 min with a buffer containing 0.5 M NaCl. The briefly extracted axonemal pellet was then reextracted for about 20 hr. The soluble material obtained from each extraction was resolved into 14S and 30S dynein ATPases by sedimentation on sucrose density gradients and tested for sensitivity to added calmodulin. The 14S dynein obtained by a 5-min extraction was generally insensitive to added calmodulin, whereas that obtained by 20-hr extraction of the 5-min extracted axonemes was activated by calmodulin, the activation being much larger in the “light” 14S fractions than in the “heavy” fractions. The 30S dynein ATPase obtained by a 5-min extraction was generally activated over 1.6-fold by added calmodulin, whereas that obtained by the subsequent long extraction was usually activated only 1.3-fold. After further purification of the 5-min extracted 30S dynein and of the 5-min to 20-hr-extracted 14S dynein on DEAE-Sephacel, these dyneins retained much of their calmodulin activatability. The ATPase activity of both 14S and 30S dyneins was inhibited more strongly by erythro-9-[3-(2-hydroxynonyl)] adenine and by vanadate in the presence of added calmodulin than in its absence. These data suggest that the only ATPase activity present in the fractions studied is that of the dyneins and demonstrate that both the 14S and 30S dynein ATPases may be obtained in forms mat are activated by added calmodulin as well as in forms that are insensitive to added calmodulin.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 24 (1984), S. 395-403 
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    Keywords: lysine N6-hydroxylase ; Aerobacter aerogenes 62-1 ; hydroxamate ; siderophore ; glutamine stimulation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Glutamine may serve as an activator and/or regulator of the N6-hydroxylase (E.C. 1.14.99) of Aerobacter aerogenes 62-1. Activation and stabilization of N6-hydroxylase activity was observed both in vivo and in vitro. Growth in a glutamine-supplemented medium resulted in (1) maximum N6-hydroxylase activity at an earlier stage of growth and (2) higher N6-hydroxylase activity and continued aerobactin synthesis into stationary phase. Storage of P2 in the presence of L-glutamine (1 mM) significantly increased the lifetime of the labile N6-hydroxylase activity. Inclusion of L-glutamine in the incubation mixture typically resulted in a 2-3-fold activation of the hydroxylase activity. The stimulatory effect of glutamine was independent of and additive to the enhancement of N6-hydroxylation by the active component(s) in the supernatant, S2 fraction. Glutamic acid-γ-semihydrazide activated slightly in the absence of glutamine but activation of the system by glutamine was decreased by this compound. Azaserine was shown to be an uncompetitive inhibitor with respect to lysine and this inhibition was not reversed by glutamine.
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    Keywords: N-substituted p-benzoquinone imines ; Trypanosoma brucei brucei ; trypanocidal drugs ; Hansch approach ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: It has previously been found that naphthoquinones can potentiate the rate of hydrogen peroxide production by mitochondrial preparations of Trypanosoma brucei brucei and that organisms treated with naphthoquinones are more susceptible to lysis, especially in the presence of compounds such as heme, which promote the homolytic cleavage of hydrogen peroxide. We have evaluated the lytic effect of various N-substituted p-benzoquinone imines both in vitro and in vivo and have attempted to correlate their structure with trypanocidal activity using the Hansch approach. While none of the compounds tested proved to be active in vivo, all caused the lysis of trypanosomes in vitro. The parameters that correlated best with trypanocidal activity were the conditional redox potential, the lipophilicity of the substituent attached to the nitrogen atom and the number of active hydrogens on the quinoncid ring. These findings suggest two possible modes of action, which may in fact be related. Conjugate nucleophilic addition and/or oxidative damage could be responsible for lysis of the parasites. These same compounds were previously found to be active against the ascitic sarcoma 180 in mice. The strong correlation between antineoplastic activity in vivo and trypanocidal activity in vitro suggests a similar mode of action in both cases. Further studies aimed at developing a quinonelike compound that will be active against trypanosomes in vivo are now in progress.
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    Keywords: mRNA levels ; regulation of biosynthesis ; light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex ; chloroplast ; ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase ; oxygenase ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The photoregulation of chloroplast development in pea leaves has been studied by reference to three polypeptides and their mRNAs. The polypeptides were the large subunit (LSU) and the small subunit (SSU) of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carbox-ylase/oxygenase (RUBISCO), and the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCP). The polypeptides were assayed by a sensitive radioimmune assay, and the mRNAs were assayed by hybridization to cloned DNA probes. LSU, LSU mRNA, and LHCP mRNA were detectable in etiolated seedlings but LHCP, SSU, and SSU mRNA were at or below the limit of detection. During the first 48 hr of de-etiolation under continuous white light, the mRNAs for LSU, SSU, and LHCP increased in concentration per apical bud by about 40-fold, at least 200-fold, and about 25-fold, respectively, while the total RNA content per apical bud increased only 3.5-fold. In the same period, the LSU, SSU, and LHCP contents per bud increased at least 60-, 100-, and 200-fold, respectively. The LHCP increased steadily in concentration during de-etiolation, whereas the accumulation LSU, SSU, and SSU mRNA showed a 24-hr lag. The accumulation of SSU, SSU mRNA, and LHCP mRNA showed classical red/far-red reversibility, indicating the involvement of phytochrome in the regulatory mechanism. LSU and LSU mRNA were induced equally well by red and far-red light. The LHCP failed to accumulate except under continuous illumination. These results indicate that the accumulation of SSU is controlled largely through the steady-state level of its mRNA, which is in turn almost totally dependent on light as an inducer and on phytochrome as one of the photoreceptors. The accumulation of LSU is largely but not totally determined by the level of its mRNA, which appears to be under strong photoregulation, which has yet to be shown to involve phytochrome. Phytochrome is involved in the regulation of LHCP mRNA levels but substantial levels of the mRNA also occur in the dark. LHCP accumulation is not primarily governed by the levels of LHCP mRNA but by posttranslational stabilization in which chlorophyll synthesis plays a necessary but not sufficient role.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 25 (1984), S. 31-43 
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    Keywords: intercellular adhesion ; Dictyostelium discoideum ; discoidin I ; antibodies ; antidiscoidin I Fab fragments ; in vitro reaggregation ; morphogenesis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Antibodies against pure discoidin I have been used as a tool to ascertain the role of this lectin in aggregation of Dictyostelium discoideum. Discoidin I is widely expressed over the cell surface of aggregation-competent AX-2 cells, as ascertained by indirect immunofluorescence with specific (antidiscoidin I) antibodies. Univalent antidiscoidin I antibodies (Fab fragments) inhibit the aggregation-specific intercellular adhesion of D discoideum AX-2 cells in an in vitro assay. This inhibition depends on antibody concentration and cell density; a 50% inhibition of cell aggregation was obtained at antidiscoidin I Fab concentration of 4.5 mg/ml and 1 × 106 cells/ml. Aggregation and morphogenesis on solid support is also effectively inhibited when AX-2 cells are starved in the presence of antidiscoidin I Fab fragments. The inhibition of morphogenesis is also dose dependent and more effective than in the in vitro assay. No inhibition of aggregation either in the in vitro assay or on morphogenesis on solid support was observed with preimmune Fab fragments at any of the concentrations tested (up to 9.6 mg/ml).
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 25 (1984), S. 131-137 
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    Keywords: Hymenolepis diminuta ; tapeworm ; plasma membrane ; brush border ; membrane-bound enzyme ; alkaline phosphatase ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The specific activities of the alkaline phosphatase (APase), type I phosphodiesterase and 5′-nucleotidase activities associated with the brush-border plasma membrane of the tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta, decrease significantly as the tapeworm grows and matures. Kinetic analyses of the APase activity associated with membrane preparations from whole 6-, 12-, and 18-d-old H diminuta, and individual pieces of 18-d-old H diminuta cut into ten pieces of equal length, failed to demonstrate qualitative changes in the APase activity. Therefore, the decreased specific activities are apparently due to changes in the ratios of enzymatically active to enzymatically inactive membrane proteins (ie, quantitative changes in the membrane proteins) which occur as the tapeworm grows.
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 165-211 
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 26 (1984), S. 181-195 
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    Keywords: thrombin ; growth factors ; receptor occupancy ; growth control ; cell cycle ; wound healing ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: To determine the role of thrombin high-affinity receptor occupancy and enzymic activity in thrombin initiation of cell proliferation, we have utilized thrombin derivatives which separate these functions. We previously showed that enzymically active γ-thrombin stimulates ion fluxes without binding to high-affinity sites, whereas proteolytically inhibited DIP-α-thrombin which binds to high-affinity receptors does not. Since neither derivative initiates DNA synthesis by itself, this suggested that two separate sequences of events might be necessary for a complete initiation signal. We now report that the combination of DIP-α-thrombin and γ-thrombin initiate DNA synthesis and cell proliferation to levels approaching the maximal initiation by native α-thrombin. This combinatory effect is dose-dependent for both γ-thrombin and DIP-α-thrombin in the same concentration range as α-thrombin alone. Thus, these same concentrations of α-thrombin alone may be required to initiate each sequence of events. The combinatory stimulation could be achieved even if the derivatives were added individually up to 8 hr apart. Moreover, preincubation with either derivative shortened the lag period for initiation of DNA synthesis by native α-thrombin. These results indicate that both receptor occupancy and enzymic activity are necessary for thrombin initiation of cell proliferation and that each action initiates a sequence of early events which moves the cell forward toward entry into a proliferative cycle.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984) 
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 137-145 
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    Notes: The occurrence of a sequential bone remodeling activity, similar to what is observed in human bone, is demonstrated in rat trabecular bone at the level of the secondary spongiosa. A complete dynamic histomorphometric analysis of the remodeling activity, using undecalcified sections and double fluorescent labels, has consequently been performed in young adults (220 g, 8 weeks old) and in more mature animals (320 g, 12 weeks old). The results showed that, despite a similar trabecular bone volume, younger animals had a five times higher bone formation rate and five times more osteoclasts than more mature animals. The higher bone formation rate was due in part to a threefold higher extent of double-labeled trabecular bone surface and in part to a 1.5-fold faster mineralization rate. These results therefore demonstrate a marked slowing down of bone turnover during skeletal maturation in the rat. The values obtained in this study have been compared with measurements made in other parts of the skeleton in the same species (Vignery and Baron 1978, 1980b; Tran Van et al., 1982a) or in humans. This comparison indicated that 12-week-old rats had a turnover rate very similar to values observed in iliac crest trabecular bone in adult humans. The rat is therefore a good experimental animal for the study of trabecular bone remodeling but since large variations occur during skeletal maturation, care should be taken in the selection of an age group relevant to the type of questions being asked.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 185-196 
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    Notes: Multinucleated cells were observed to account for more than 17% of all cells in the periodontal ligament (PDL) of 20-month-old mice. The number of nuclei contained in sections of these cells ranged from 2 to 17, with over 50% of the multinucleated cells containing four or more nuclei within the plane of section. The multinucleated cells contained several cytoplasmic features resembling those previously described by the authors as characteristic of PDL fibroblasts. The multinucleated cells did not resemble osteoclasts or foreign body giant cells. It is suggested that fibroblasts develop a tendency to fuse and form multinucleated cells in the aged PDL. Similar cells were not observed in the PDL of young (5-week-old) mice or in the tail tendon at any age.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 175-183 
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    Notes: The aim of this investigation was to establish the degree of denervation produced by inferior alveolar nerve section and to provide histological evidence for the presence of pulpal nerve fibres supplying the teeth which do not travel with the inferior alveolar nerve. Four adult cats were used. Each stage of the experiment was carried out under general anesthesia. The left inferior alveolar nerve was exposed and sectioned near the mandibular foramen. After 56 hours and 7 days, respectively, the jaw opening reflex to electrical stimulation of each lower canine was tested. Recordings were made from the left canine during electrical stimulation of the ipsilateral inferior alveolar nerve central and peripheral to the site of section as well as from the ipsilateral and contralateral inferior alveolar nerve during electrical stimulation of the left canine. Recordings were also made from the lingual nerve. After the recordings were completed two animals were perfused 56 hours after inferior alveolar nerve section, two more 7 days after section. Ultrathin sections of the apices of the lower canine teeth were examined in the electron microscope and each nerve fibre photographed. Each axon was examined to determine whether it was degenerating or normal.A jaw-opening reflex could not be elicited by stimulation of the left canine either 2 or 7 days after nerve section, whereas a normal response was evoked by stimulation of the right, control canine. At 2 days small responses could be recorded from the left canine teeth during stimulation of the left inferior alveolar nerve peripheral to the point of section. In one 2-day animal, responses could be recorded in the lingual nerve during stimulation. No pulpal fibres could be recorded in the inferior alveolar nerve central to the point of section nor from the contralateral inferior alveolar nerve. No pulpal fibres supplying the left canine could be recorded in any of the nerves examined at 7 days.Extensive degeneration was seen histologically even at 2 days. The canine pulp on the operated side contained only 31%, in one animal, and 26% in the other, of the number of axons of normal appearance that were present on the control side. At 7 days the number of remaining normal axons on the operated side were 5% and 13% of the numbers on the control side. All the axons of normal appearance were nonmyelinated.It is possible that the remaining axons represent fibres carried by the lingual nerve or some other alternative pathway that could not be detected electro-physiologically. Alternatively they may be a collateral innervation from adjacent tissues.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 215-222 
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    Notes: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of ethanol consumption on compensatory ovarian hypertrophy (COH) which occurs follwoing unilateral ovariectomy. Holtzman rats, 40 days old, were either unilaterally ovariectomized or sham-ovariectomized. The rats were then placed into subgroups which would receive either an ad libitum chow and water diet, a liquid diet, or a liquid diet containing 5% ethanol. The animals were maintained on their respective diets for 11 days. The rats were killed at 51 days of age, and the ovaries and uteri were removed, weighed, and prepared for histological investigation. The results showed that uteri from ethanol-fed animals failed to develop epithelial glands and exhibited a condensed stroma in comparison to uteri from animals fed ad libitum or pair-fed to ethanol-fed rats. Also, rats that were fed ad libitum had a COH of 82 ± 16% and rats that were pair-fed a liquid diet had 114 ± 28% COH; rats that were fed the liquid diet containing ethanol did not experience compensatory ovarian hypertrophy (-3 ± 10%). Histologically, the ovaries of rats fed ad libitum showed large numbers of corpora lutea and only a few mature ova. The histology of ovaries from pair-fed animals was similar to those from animals fed ad libitum. In contrast, the ovaries from the animals fed the ethanol diet had nearly twice as many mature ova but only one-fourth as many corpora lutea as the number seen in ovaries from the other groups. The data show that ethanol consumption inhibits COH by suppressing ovulation and the subsequent luteal formation.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 233-242 
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    Notes: Insulin, glucagon, somatostain, and pancreatic polypeptide (PP) were localized in the pancreas of the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, by light and transmission electeron microscopic (TEM) immunocytochemistry. Colloidal gold-protein A was used for TEM localization and the peroxidase containing A cells and the insulin-positive B cells were the most numerous cell types. The somatostatin-containing D cells made up about 15% of the endocrine cells. PP-positive F cells were a minor cell type. The only topographic arrangement of the cells within the endocrine-rich areas that was apparent was the peripheral localization of the D and F cells. Cells of a specific cell type were sometimes grouped together. At the elctron microscopic (EM) level, the gold particles (indicating the pesence of hormone) were localized nearly exclusively over the secretory grnules of the ractive cells. The α-granules were the largest found and were predominantly electron dense with a moderately electron-dense periphery. PP-containing granules were the smallest. The somatostatin-reactive δ-granules were round and moderately electron opaque. The β-granules were heterogeneous in appearance. The morphognomy of the secretory granules of the major endocrine cell types is qualitatively similar to that of mammals. Wheter or not the quantitative and/or associative differences contribute to the marked metabolic differences between reptiles and mammals, remains to be determined.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 279-281 
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    Notes: A lobar notational system for the identification of airways in the mammalian lung is presented. This system was developed to identify uniquely the location of morphometric and deposition data within a lobe as well as within the lung, and to provide for easy and efficient data reduction. In addition, this notational system can be used to identify main stems like those found in the monopodial lung, and incorporates identification of terminal bronchioles in the airway identifier. The lobar notational system is composed of a two-character lobe code, followed by a third character identifying the branching structure as monopodial or symmetric. The fourth digit identifies the relative position of a branch within the lobe. Subsequent digits identify the airway's relative location within the branching.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 349-355 
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    Notes: Incubation of skin in 2 N sodium bromide allows separation of dermal and epidermal layers leaving an intact basal lamina covering the dermal portion. Examination of the surface of the dermis by SEM shows cells migrating through the basal lamina. By scanning and transmission electron microscopy, these cells have the characteristics of lymphocytes. The migrating lymphocytes produce a sequence of basal lamina deformations including dome formation, effacement of corrugations, and central fenestrations with hole formation allowing lymphocyte passage. Following passage there is reestablishment of a relatively smooth basal lamina in the crater base, effacement of the crater rim, and finally reformation of basal lamina corrugations. This deformability of the basal lamina supports the hypothesis that basal lamina is thixotropic. This study is the first demonstration in three dimensions of lymphocyte traffic across the basal lamina, an important component of skinassociated lymphoid tissue (SALT).
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 401-409 
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    Notes: We studied the parietal pleura of six sheep to obtain information on pleura structure, blood supply, and lymphatic drainage. In the strict sense, the parietal pleura is composed of a single layer of mesothelial cells and a uniform layer of loose, irregular connective tissue (about 23 μm in width) subjacent to the mesothelial cells. The parietal pleural blood vessels are 10-15 μm from the pleural space. Tracer substances put in the pleural space are removed at specific locations. Colloidal carbon and chick red blood cells are cleared by teh parietal pleural lymphatics located over the intercostal spaces at the caudal end of the thoracic wall and over the lateral sides of the pericardial sac. In these areas the mesothelial cells have specialized openings, the stomata, that directly communicate with the underlying lymphatic lacunae. Cells and particulate matter in the pleural space are cleared only by the parietal pleural lymphatics. Compared to the visceral pleura, we believe the thinness of the parietal pleura, the closeness of its blood vessels to the pleural space, and its specialized lymphatic clearance pathways, together indicate that the parietal pleura plays a major role in pleural liquid and protein dynamics in sheep.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 283-289 
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    Notes: This study used acrylic resin as an intravascular marker to demonstrate functional myocardial capillaries after fixation by perfusion. Eight rat hearts were excised and allowed to function as isolated organs perfused with oxygenated Krebs-Henseleit buffer (37o 10 kPa) for 10 min. Four were fixed by perfusion (4 min) with 2.5% glutaraldehyde at the same temperature and pressure and then immersion fixed (24 hr). The other four hearts were perfused with 0.2% procaine HCl for 30 sec just prior to similar fixation. Polymerizing low viscosity acrylic resin was injected at 10 kPa pressure into the fixed vascular beds and allowed to cure, then transmural blocks of left ventricular myocardium were prepared for scanning electron microscopy. Total initial coronary flow of fixative after procaine treatment was significantly increased, while in untreated hearts the initial fixative flow rate was closely similar to that of oxygenated buffer. The pattern of capillary perfusion was assessed, and the percentage of capillary profiles filled by acrylic resin were calculated. Following procaine treatment, 95.2% of capillaries appeared functional, whereas without procaine arrest, only 62.0% of capillaries allowed the passage of resin. This study indicates that perfusion fixation with glutaraldehyde stabilizes myocardial structure so that the proportion of functional capillary pathways remains closely similar to that in the beating heart and so that such functional capillaries can be identified in morphological preparations by using a low viscosity intraluminal resin marker.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 329-335 
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    Notes: Vascularization in the tail musculature, which contains red and white muscle fibers, of the prometamorphic anuran tadpole was analyzed quantitatively by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The sample was fixed in glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide; this was followed by freeze-fracturing in liquid nitrogen. As good ultrastructural preservation and reliable identification of capillaries were given by this technique, various morphometric parmeters, cross-sectional capillary area in particular, could be measured exactly.In red muscle fiber that had a small cross-sectional area (2,060.1 μm2), high capillary density (1,283.5 capillaries/mm2) and a large cross-sectional capillary area (96.4 μm2) was found. Although white fiber (9,372.2 μm2) was 4.6 times greater than red fiber in cross-sectional fiber area, capillary density (95.8 cappilaries/mm2) and cross-sectional fiber area, capillary area (29.5 μm2) were 13.4 times and 3.3 times smaller than those of red fiber, respectively. From these morphometric values the following parameters were evaluated; (1) capillary/muscle fiber number ratio of red muscle fiber (2.64) was 3.0 times greater than that of white fiber (0.89); and (2) total cross-sectional capillary araa per crosssectional area of one muscle fiber was 44.0 times greater for red fiber (1.235.4 μm2/104 μm2) than for white fiber (28.1 üm2/104 μm2). Comparison of the latter parameter between the different fiber types may reflect the differences of real blood supply to them; i.e., red fiber was supplied a 44.0-times richer blood flow than white fiber.Advantages of morphometric study by SEM, and the relationship between obtained parameters for vascularization and blood supply to the different muscle fiber types, are discussed.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 515-520 
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    Notes: The vole, Microtus agrestis, was chosen for this study of mast cells during early pregnancy because this species does not show spontaneous estrous cycles. Mast cell numbers in the uterus are known to vary during the estrous cycle in some species (rat, cow, Syrian hamster). Mast cell changes during early pregnancy in the vole could not reflect hormonal changes which had occurred during a preceding estrous cycle. Mast cells in the uterus (myometrium, endometrium, and mesometrial triangle) and ear skin were examined at 0 hours (virgin, estrus) and at 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours postcoitum (p.c.). The stain used was 0.06% toluidine blue in 0.12 M Michaelis's veronal acetatehydrochloric acid buffer at pH 4.5. The number of mast of cells observed in the uterus was not significantly affected when the nondehydrating fixative used routinely (Helly's solution) was substituted by a dehydrating fixative (Carnoy's solution without chloroform). The number of mast cells in the myometrium decreased from 0 to 72 hours p.c. and increased from 72 to 96 hours p.c. There was no significant variation in mast cell numbers in the endometrium. The number of mast cells in ear skin and in the mesometrial triangle decreased from 0 to 48 hours p.c. An increase occurred from 48 to 96 hours p.c. in ear skin and from 72 to 96 hours p.c. in the mesometrium.
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    Notes: Secretory compoenets of the salamander olfactory mucosa, sustentacular cells (SC), and Bowman's glands (BG), were examined histologically and histochemically. In the aquatic larval salamander, SC in sensory grooves contained secretory granules; the submucosa contained a single layer of homogeneous, ductless glands. In the land-dwelling adult salamander, SC spanning a flat epithelial sheet contained vesicles. Subjacent to the epithelium in both dorsal and ventral mucosae lay BG whose ducts opened at the surface of the epithelium. In the ventral mucosa, two additional layers of olfactory glands (OG) lying below the BG were identified; ducts were not observed in association with the OG. The β-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol caused depletion of secretory granules from BG and OG of larval, young, and adult salamanders but had no discernible effect on SC. Histochemical techniques (Alcianblue at pH 2.5 and pH 1.0, high-iron diamine, and the periodic acid-Schiff reaction) demonstrated that SC contained neutral, acidic, and small amounts of sulfated mucopolysaccharides (MPS). BG and OG contained only neutral MPS. In contrast, glands under adjacent respiratory epithelium contained both acidic and sulfated MPS. Unilateral olfactory nerve section (ONX) caused changes in the histochemical reactivity of acidic and sulfated MPS in SC on the ipsilateral and later on the contralateral side. Neutral MPS staining became enhanced first in the OG that lay under the BG, then in BG cells, and later in the deepest OG layer. Ipsilateral changes preceded contralateral ones. At 24 days post-ONX, some acinar cells in the deep OG contained acidic but not sulfated MPS.
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    Notes: We have described an extramedullary myelopoietic tissue located in the wall of the yolk sac. This myelopoietic site is absent at hatch and it produces only granulocytic and monocytic cells during the regression of the yolk sac from 2 to 7 weeks of age. The granulocytic and monocytic cells are located in two distinct zones. The monocytic cells migrate close to the lumen of the yolk sac where they may fuse and form giant cells. There are no mature granulocytes present. Cell migration has not been observed. Therefore, the fate and function of the young granulocytic cells are unknown. In this extramedullary myelopoietic tissue, the absence of erythrocyte and thrombocyte formation may indirectly suggest that these cells develop together in sinuses that are lacking in the wall of the yolk sac.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 265-270 
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    Notes: Variations of the vertebral column were considered to be those deviations from the norm which were still compatible with normal life and not pathological. The incidence of these variations is described as seen radiographically in a group of normal human fetuses.Ossification centers for the costal processes of cervical vertebra 7 were found to be common (19%), being present in approximately one-fifth of the total number of fetuses studied. They were mostly present as bilateral centers (15%), but because of the cross-sectional nature of the study, it could not be determined whether these centers would have developed into actual cervical ribs. Far less common were the presence of lumbar ribs (1%). Ossification of the vertebral centra was found to be confusing with no clearly defined pattern being evident. In particular, there was a suggestion that some of the vertebral centra might well develop at least initially from bilateral centers. There was also evidence that the vertebral body was the product of four centers and this was supported by other literature. No variations were found which suggested that the vertebra develops from two somite levels, and this appears to be in conflict with the commonly accepted resegmentation theory.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 291-311 
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 319-327 
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    Notes: Guinea pig polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), rich in glycogen granules, were collected from sodium-caseinate-induced eritoneal exudate. When these cells were incubated with rickettsiae, many microogranisms were phagocytized within 30 minutes at 35o C and vacuoles up to 5 μm in diameter containing glycogen granules were present. Contained within these vaculoes were phagocytized extracellular material and a dense, lysosomelike substance that was acid phosphatase positive. These vacuoles, which were interpreted to be autophagosomes, were absent from PMNs that had not been stimulated with microorganisms. The number of rickettsiae in the PMN did not appear to be related to the number of autophagosomes. About 8% and 80% of thin-sectioned profiles of PMNs contained these vacuoles after 30 minutes and 4 hours incubation, respectively. After 4 hours, the PMNs contained multiple autophagosomes. Almost all of the glycogen granules were in autophagosomes in some of the cells. In some PMNs, discontinuous membranes encirlced some glycogen. When PMNs were initally incubated with thorium dioxide and ferritin, and extensively washed prior to incubation with rickettsiae, glycogen was found surrounded by flattened secondary lysosmes containing the dense tracers. Some autophagosomes also contained the electron-dense tracers. These results suggest that rickettisae induce the rapid formation of glycogen-containing autophagosomes in guinea pig peritoneal PMNs in vitro.
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    The @Anatomical Record 208 (1984), S. 337-347 
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    Notes: The distribution of anionic groups of acid mucopolysaccharides on the surface of glomerular constituents of a brwon hagfish, Paramyxine atami Dean, has been studied morphologically. The ionized anionic groups of acid mucopolysaccharides were labeled on fixed tissues by stainig with cationic cacodylate iron colloid (Fe-Cac) at pH 4.0. The glomerular permeability to cationic and anionic macromolecules was observed morphologically in the kidney of the animal injected native anionic ferritin (NF) or cationized ferritin (CF) into the dorsal aorta.Histochemical staining of tissues with Fe-Cac (pH 4.0) revealed the ionized anionic groups of acid mucopolysaccharides on both luminal and abluminal surfaces of endothelial cells, within the glomerular basement membrane (GBM), and on the visceral epithelial cell surface facing the urinary space. The CF molecules introduced into the dorsal aorta easily passed through the fenestrae of the capillary endothelial cell layer and the thick fibrillar GBM, reaching the urinary space to be adsorbed to the visceral epithelial cell surface or taken up by these visceral epithelial cell. On the other hand, NF hardly passed through the capillary wall. These results show that the nonosmoregulating mesonephric glomerulus of the brown hagfish has a working anionic barrier system. The function of its glomerulus is compared to that of the mammalian metanephric glomerulus.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 153-163 
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    Notes: Extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of cats were grafted heterotopically or orthotopically, and either with or without prior denervation. The autografted muscles were studied at times from 4 to 518 days after grafting. Muscle weight, fiber cross-sectional area, and ultrastructural, histochemical, and biochemical characteristics of regenerating muscle fibers were determined. Prior denervation reduced the mass of muscle at the time of grafting, but had no significant effect on the characteristics of the regenerating muscles. Orthotopic and heterotopic autografts achieved similar recovery of structure. Mean fiber area reached control values. Differentiation into fiber types occurred, but compared to control muscles, autografts had fewer Type I and Type IIA fibers. Electron microscopic analysis of regenerating muscle fibers revealed centrally located nuclei, but otherwise normal ultrastructure. The bimodal distribution of Z-band width was consistent with differentiation into fiber types. Mean data of some morphological variables did not stabilize.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 197-208 
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    Notes: Regional differences in the proximal part of mouse epididymis were reported to provide a morphological baseline for studies on functional zonation of this part that is critical in sperm maturation.Macroscopical, histological, ultrastructural, and histochemical observations permitted us to subdivide this part into five segments, characterized by epithelial height, nuclear position, cytological and histochemical features of principal cells. Segment I corresponded to the initial segment previously described in rodents. Segment II differed from segment I by endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and dictyosomes aspect in principal cells, apical alkaline phosphatase and Ca2+-dependent ATPase activities. Segment III was characterized by spermatozoa package, high content of cells in multivesicular bodies, mitochondria shape, complex interdigitating membranes, and strong periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive cell border. Segments IV and V presented the same cytological features but differed by their esterase activity. In the principal cells of each segment, dense spherical concretions were scattered in ER caveolae.Cells with apical nuclei were classified into two groups. The cells of the first group presented the same morphological and histochemical features as the adjacent principal cells and were scattered in the five segments (“apical cells”). The cells of the second group differed from the others by their goblet shape, a dense cytoplasm, and a high mitochondria succinate-D activity. They presented different cytological and histochemical features depending on their localization in segments I (“narrow cells”), II (“prominent cells”), or III, IV, V (“mitochondria goblet-cells”).The possible relationships between epithelium structure and epididymal functions were herein discussed.
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    Notes: In the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, the mucosa of the major airways from the blowholes through the rostral portion of the larynx is lined with parakeratotic, pigmented, stratified squamous epithelium. Scattered enlarged connective tissue papillae of the lamina propria of the nasal vestibules and the palatopharyngeal sphincter contain encapsulated nerve endings. Abundant papillae in the mucosa covering the epiglottic and arytenoid cartilages contain similar nerve endings. The remainder of the laryngeal cavity and laryngeal sac is lined by a variably pigmented, stratified squamous epithelium, which is not keratinized. At the laryngotracheal junction the lining changes to ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium which continues through the trachea and principal bronchi. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) indicates that this epithelium is typically mammalian, with approximately half of the surface cells bearing cilia and slender microvilli. The remaining cells are mucus producing and have thicker microvilli. The valvular mass regulating the external nares consists of irregular, dense white fibrous connective tissue with numerous adipose cells and is penetrated by skeletal muscle cords ranging from 2-4 mm in diameter. The septal mass between the blowholes is composed of irregular, dense white fibrous connective tissue containing large tendinous bundles, clusters of adipose cells, and several large arteries and thick-walled veins. The lamina propria of the nasal vestibules is irregular, dense white fibrous connective tissue. That of the larynx is not as dense and contains proportionately more elastic fibers. The laryngeal sac does not contain elastic laminae, but does have a tunica muscularis of skeletal muscle bundles. Within the trachea and principal bronchi, the lamina propria possesses laminae of longitudinally oriented elastic fibers and simple, branched tubuloalveolar mucous glands. The nasal, laryngeal, tracheal, and bronchial cartilages are hyaline with vascular channels.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 177-183 
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    Notes: Bielanski and Kaczmarski (1979) reported the presence of microtubules in the neck region of mature stallion spermatozoa. It was hypothesized that these microtubules are derived from the manchette (a microtubular organelle present during spermiogenesis). In order to test this hypothesis, testes from 15 mature stallions were collected, perfused with 2% phosphatebuffered glutaraldehyde, and prepared for transmission electron microscopy. Spermatozoa from the caudae epididymides of each stallion were prepared in a similar manner. Spermiogenesis was observed in general, and the presence of a microtubular manchette was established in this species, juxtapositioned posterior to the nuclear ring and extending distally into the cytoplasmic collar which surrounds the prospective midpiece. Interlocking arms between the microtubules of the manchette were observed in transverse sections at all levels within the cytoplasmic collar before, during, and after caudal migration of the nuclear ring. Consequent to caudal migration of the nuclear ring and the annulus, as well as adluminal movement of the spermatid, the cytoplasmic collar was transformed into the residual cytoplasm. Within the residual cytoplasm, the manchette remained as a microtubular organelle which undergoes degeneration. The mature spermatozoa from the caudae epididymides of these stallions lacked the microtubules reported by Bielanski and Kaczmarski. The occurrence of such microtubules in the neck region of stallion spermatozoa is probably an abnormality.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 231-249 
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    Notes: Palatal shelves from embryonic alligators, chicks, and mice were explanted at various stages of development and organ cultured in either chemically defined, serumless media or the same media supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum. Shelves from each vertebrate were either cultured singly or in contact, and heterologous combinations of palatal shelves from different animals were made: chick/mouse, chick/alligator, and mouse/alligator. Epithelial differentiation (particularly that of the medial shelf edge) was assayed by vital staining, histology, and scanning electron microscopy. In vitro medial edge epithelial differentiation, and consequently the mechanisms of palatal closure, were identical to those normally seen in vivo for each species, i.e., cobble-stoned migrating epithelia in the alligator, cell death and fusion in the mouse, and keratinisation and cleft palate in the chick. Differentiation was optimal in the chemically defined, serumless media and was independent of shelf contact in all three species. No heterologous combinations of palatal shelves closed with each other: Evidently, the modes of palatal closure in mice and alligators are sufficiently different to prevent them forming a chimeric palate, whilst neither is capable of inducing closure in a cocultured chick palatal shelf. These unified defined culture conditions make possible a large number of epithelial-mesenchymal recombination studies as well as specific inhibitor, teratogenic, and hormonal investigations.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 265-271 
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    Notes: The greatest length (GL) and the crown-rump (C-R) length were compared in 43 staged human embryos. It was found that point C, which overlies the middle of the midbrain, was sometimes difficult to locate and that point R is not precise. These disadvantages render the C-R measurement unsatisfactory. At 4 weeks (stage 13) the GL comes to exceed the C-R and continues to do so until about 7 weeks (stages 17-19). The maximum difference is approximately 1.5 mm. Thereafter, the two lengths are basically equal and coincide from about stages 18 and 19 onward. In a series of 100 embryos of stages 19-23, female embryos at stages 21 and 22 were found to be shorter (by a mean of 1 mm) than male embryos, but not at stages 19, 20, and 23. The greatest length, which is independent of fixed points, is much simpler to measure than the C-R length, and it is recommended that it be used instead. It is pointed out that Streeter had already made that substitution. The greatest length has the further advantage of being a practicable measurement from two postovulatory weeks (stage 6) throughout the remainder of the embryonic and also in the fetal period. The lower limbs are excluded from measurement.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 281-288 
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    Notes: Orthotopic transplants of whole extensor digitorum longus muscles were performed on six 4-6-week-old 129 ReJ mice. One hundred days posttransplantation, the animals were killed and the regenerated muscles were processed for electron microscopy. The grafts contained polygonal-shaped myofibers with persistent central nuclei, organized into discrete muscle fascicles. No central area of fatty infiltration or fibrosis was observed. The mean number of myofibers in a regenerating transplanted muscle, as determined from an ultrathin section taken from the graft's widest girth, was 631 (SEM = ± 59), a reduction of ∼ 32% from that found in age-matched control muscle (Ontell et al., 1983). By following the myofibers in spaced, serial ultrathin sections along their length, it was found that the branched, regenerating myofibers found in immature grafts of normal muscle (Ontell et al., 1982) persisted in stabilized, long-term transplanted muscle. The frequency of branching was determined by following each fiber found at the widest girths of four of the grafts in spaced, serial ultrathin sections (15-μm intervals) for ∼2% of the total length of the grafts. Over this distance, 6.6% of the fibers were involved in the branching phenomenon. The persistence of branched fibers in long-term grafts and the frequency with which the branching phenomenon was found to occur may have physiological consequences and should be investigated.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 297-299 
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    Notes: Nerves exhibiting substance P-like immunoreactivity were demonstrated in the human periosteum. A network of nerves showing substance P-like immunoreactivity was seen in the periosteum, while finer strands of immunoreactive nerve fibers were present immediately beneath the surface of the periosteum. Enkephalin-like immunoreactivity was also studied but could not be demonstrated.Substance P has previously been suggested to be involved in the mediation of the sensation of pain. The clinically observable marked pain sensitivity of periosteal tissue might be explained by the peptidergic nerves described in this paper.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 289-295 
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    Notes: The distribution of approaches of rough endoplasmic reticulum to the cell membrane within the supranuclear region of the secretory ameloblast of the rat incisor was quantitated using a Zeiss MOP-3. In ameloblasts cut in cross section, most of these approaches appear as circular profiles representing cross sections of elongated cisternae, which are aligned parallel to the long axis of the cell. Because of their position, orientation, and distribution of ribosomes, these approaches were consistent with the appearance of subsurface cisternae. Using cross-sectioned ameloblasts, the lengths of apposed plasma membranes either between or within rows of cells were measured from electron micrographs. Along these lengths, matched approaches of rough endoplasmic reticulum from opposite sides of the apposed plasma membranes were counted. Approaches from either side that were unmatched were also counted. Thirteen percent of the approaches were matched between rows of ameloblasts, and 13.5% of the approaches were matched within rows, demonstrating no significant difference between the two sites. Furthermore, mathematical analysis showed that the theoretical probability of two approaches coinciding is 17%. The experimental values are not statistically different from the theoretical probability, and it is concluded that the matching of rough endoplasmic reticulum approaches to the plasma membrane, or subsurface cisternae, occurs at random.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 311-321 
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    Notes: Biochemical analyses of Squalus testis indicates that key enzymes involved with androgen production increase progressively from immature regions containing spermatogonia to mature regions in the late spermatid stage of maturation (Canick et al., 1983). In an effort to identify cells possessing the cytological characteristics of steroid production and to determine the structural correlates of the observed functional changes, we have carried out an electron microscopic study of Squalus testis. This report demonstrates that Sertoli cells contain a well-developed agranular reticulum, mitochondria with tubulovesicular cristae, and numerous lipid droplets. Moreover, as germ cells mature, there is an increase in abundance of agranular reticulum in the adjacent Sertoli cells. By the time of spermatid elongation, this has reached dramatic proportions and fills the Sertoli cell as a mass of tubules. These results lead us to conclude that the Sertoli cell is responsible for secretion of the increasing amounts of androgen during the spermatogenetic cycle in Squalus.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 355-362 
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    Notes: Lamellar body ultrastructure was examined in cultured type II alveolar epithelial cells processed by a method of rapid freezing and freeze drying in the absence of both chemical fixation and solvent dehydration. This method of specimen preparation was chosen to optimize the retention of soluble substances within the type II cell. The use of cultured cell aggregates in which type II cells line the free surface facilitated the effectiveness of rapid freezing for the preservation of lamellar body fine structure.Lamellar bodies preserved by rapid freezing/freeze drying to optimize the in situ retention of intracellular components possess closely adherent concentric membranous lamellae. This supports the contention that the widely appreciated lamellar pattern of the pulmonary lamellar body represents the in vivo molecular organization of intracellular surfactant phospholipids.Lamellar bodies of frozen/frozen dried type II cells showed none of the often profound lipid extraction artifact produced by conventional processing. Instead they exhibited a substructure with noteworthy characteristics in common with lamellar bodies processed by resin dehydration lipid retention methods (Stratton, 1976). Importantly, the lamellae of frozen/frozen dried lamellar bodies were contiguous, with no interlamellar space, as is commonly observed in solvent-processed (extracted) specimens. The dimensions of lamellar components in frozen/frozen dried lamellar bodies were, however, different from published values for resin-dehydrated lipid-retained specimens. Lamellar width and the widths of component phospholipid head and fatty acid tail regions in frozen/frozen dried lamellar bodies were approximately 35% smaller than values reported for resin-dehydrated lamellar bodies. This difference was attributed to shrinkage of lamellar components as water was removed from the unfixed tissue during the freeze-drying process.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 331-336 
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    Notes: Subcutaneous autografts of ovarian tissue were made in unilaterally ovariectomized adult rats and were examined by light microscopy at various times after implantation. The implants were surrounded by a dense connective tissue capsule. They were well vascularized and contained follicles in varying stages of development as well as in different stages of atresia. Oocytes and fresh corpora lutea indicated that grafts ovulated in the presence of the in situ ovary but that the number of ovulations and their frequency were reduced when compared to normal ovaries or ovaries grafted in bilaterally castrated animals. Ovulation results in the formation of a cyst that contains follicular fluid, the oocyte, and cumulus in the ovarian stroma. Macrophages are associated with the oocyte-cumulus complex but are not prominent in association with the fluid in the cyst. It is suggested that follicular fluid is retained owing to inefficient resorption mechanisms and that this coupled with occasional ovulations results in the formation and maintenance of the large cysts.
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    The @Anatomical Record 209 (1984), S. 363-372 
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    Notes: Pituitary thyrotropes were identified throughout the year in the hibernating bat Myotis lucifugus lucifugus by means of light microscopic immunohistochemistry. These cells occupied a small proportion of the volume of the pars distalis (X = 1.36% in males; X = 1.52% in females) and exhibited a limited distribution pattern that was characteristic of all animals examined. Cells that were immunoreactive with an antiserum directed against the β subunit of thyroid-stimulating hormone were most numerous in the median rostral and ventral regions; they were scarce or absent in the dorsal portion of the gland and in the extreme lateral wings. No significant seasonal variations were observed in this cell population in females. In males, however, immunoreactive thyrotropes occupied a significantly larger proportion of the pars distalis in June following arousal from hibernation than at other times of year. No evidence of involution was observed in these anterior pituitary cells in either males or females during hibernation.
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