{"title":"Coumarin-induced disturbances of morphological development and cell wall formation in Trichophyton mentagrophytes.","authors":"G Dall'Olio, G L Vannini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When Trichophyton mentagrophytes thalli are placed on a medium containing 300 microgram/ml of coumarin, their growth rate is drastically reduced and the newly formed mycelium consists of curled and branched hyphae showing subapical bulges and swollen tips. Under the electron microscope, the most relevant abnormalities concern the cell walls which are often thickened by aberrantly shaped zones that are usually smeared unevenly over the surface of the \"primary\" wall instead of being deposited in discrete ridges. An ultracytochemical analysis suggests that the irregular thickenings are formed of chitin. Arguments suitable to explain the phenomena observed are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 3","pages":"390-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11635394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The fine structure of myotendinous and myo-epithelial junctions in the guinea pig tongue (author's transl)].","authors":"U Demmel, U Schewe, P Böck, K Gorgas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The insertion of muscle fibers in the subepithelial connective tissue layer of the guinea pig tongue was studied light and electron microscopically. Fibers of the tractus verticalis approach the epithelium penetrating the lamina propria, both the reticular and papillar layer. Terminating muscle fibers split up and form branching finger-like cytoplasmic processes. The myotendinous junctions of such terminal processes fine structurally correspond to myotendinous junctions generally observed in skeletal or smooth muscles. The entire brush-like formation, however, is more far-reaching and highly differentiated. Filament bundles (spine-like profiles) originate from the plasmalemma and extend to the lamina densa of the basal lamina, especially in those regions where actin filaments are attached to the plasmalemma. Microfibrils (10 to 12 nm diameter) reach the lamina densa of the basal lamina. They form bundles which are continuous with fibrotubular strands of elaunin fibers and elastic fiber microfibrils. Furthermore, microfibrils are interwoven with collagen fibrils.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 3","pages":"460-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11634272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The size and number of intramembrane particles in cells of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas capsulata studied by freeze-fracture electron microscopy.","authors":"J Golecki, G Drews, R Bühler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By freeze-fracture electron microscopy, particles have been observed on the protoplasmic leaflet (PF face) of cytoplasmic and intracytoplasmic membranes of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas capsulata. The particles are present under all culture conditions of chemotrophically and phototrophically grown cells. However, the number of particles per microM2 increased significantly when the formation of the photosynthetic apparatus in the membrane is induced. Intracytoplasmic membranes, where the bulk of photosynthetic activity is localized, always have a higher density of particles than cytoplasmic membranes. Under all conditions particles with a diameter of 9.5 nm dominate. The frequency of particles with diameters greater or smaller than 9.5 nm changed with culture conditions. A comparison of biochemical and electron microscopic data have lead us to the conclusion that the particles, formed under conditions which allow the synthesis of the photosynthetic apparatus, are composed of photochemical reaction centers and antenna light-harvesting bacteriochlorophyll I (B 875)-protein complexes. The total molecular weight of these particles is calculated to be 500,000.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 3","pages":"381-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11635393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dependence of intracellular alkali-ion concentrations of 3T3 and SV 40-3T3 cells on growth density.","authors":"M Ernst, G Adam","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intracellular contents of potassium and of sodium are determined for 3T3 and SV 40-3T3 cells in dependence of growth density. In parallel, total cell volume and volume of intracellular water is determined for these cells suspended in physiological buffer. Intracellular potassium concentration thus evaluated for suspended 3T3 cells exhibits a sharp decrease at cellular growth densities which lead to density dependent inhibition of cell proliferation. In the case of SV 40-3T3 cells, this drop of potassium concentration with increasing cellular growth density is not observed, which correlates well with the absence of cell density dependent inhibition of cell growth in the transformed cell line. These results support the notion that processes of stimulation of quiescent 3T3 cells or of cell density dependent inhibition of their proliferation are mediated by processes including changes of potassium transport characteristics leading to increase or decrease respectively of their intracellular potassium concentration. Furthermore, these and other results suggest, that a difference between normal and transformed cells most relevant to their different proliferation behaviour might reside in different transport characteristics for potassium of the plasma membranes of these cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 3","pages":"450-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11434718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualization of the interphase chromosomes of Ornithogalum virens and Muntiacus muntjak.","authors":"D B Brown, S M Stack, J B Mitchell, J S Bedford","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A technique for visualizing \"interphase chromosomes\" was applied to nuclei of the angio-spermous plant, Ornithogalum virens (2 n = 6), and the male mammal, Muntiacus munjak (2 n = 7), in an attempt to correlate the numbers of \"chromosomes\" visible during interphase with the respective diploid chromosome numbers. The alterations in chromosome structure observed during G1, S, and G2 periods were comparable to those previously reported in Allium cepa and Chinese hamster (CHO line) cells [33], but for technical reasons it was only possible to make accurate counts of interphase chromosomes in the G1 nuclei of O. virens. In addition, from our observations of interphase chromosomes that were pulse-labelled with tritiated thymidine and a parallel study of premature chromosome condensation (PCC) using pulse-labelled M.muntjak cells, we conclude that, although chromatin decondensation may be required for DNA synthesis, extreme chromatin decondensation can occur in the absence of DNA synthesis. Generally a morphological description of alterations in chromatin during interphase only roughly parallels the G1, S, and G2 phases defined by autoradiography following incorporation of tritiated thymidine. We suggest that both methods are valid through different ways of describing interphase.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 3","pages":"398-412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11635395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lipoprotein secretion by rat liver Golgi apparatus. Lipoprotein particles and lipase activity.","authors":"K A Hess, D J Morré, W D Merritt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lipoprotein particles of the size range of very low density lipoproteins in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, peripheral elements of the Golgi apparatus, and secretory vesicles of the immature Golgi apparatus face are 55 to 80 nm in diameter. Particles in mature secretory vesicles are smaller (45 nm). Concomitant with the change in particle size, the lumina of mature vesicles increase in electron density. A technique to fractionate immature and mature secretory vesicles was based on precipitation of a cupric-ferrocyanide complex (Hatchett's brown) through the action of a NADH-ferricyanide oxido-reductase resistant to glutaraldehyde which is characteristic of the membranes of mature secretory vesicles and of the plasma membrane of liver. Mature secretory vesicle fractions so isolated were enriched in cholesterol and depleted in triglycerides relative to immature vesicles on a phospholipid basis. Lipase activity was present in secretory vesicle fractions of the Golgi apparatus as shown by biochemical analysis and by cytochemistry. Cytochemical studies showed lipase to be present in both mature and immature vesicles but most evident in immature vesicles. The findings suggest that some very low density lipoprotein particles are converted to particles of smaller diameter during transit through Golgi apparatus. A lipase-mediated hydrolysis of triglycerides may relate to the transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 3","pages":"431-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11434717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microtubule reassembly-interactions between microtubules and pore complexes, endoplasmic reticulum and 100 A filaments in tumour cells in vitro.","authors":"J Chemnitz, K Salmberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>100 A filaments and annulate lamellae were often observed in the vicinity of vinblastine-induced paracrystals in tumour cells treated with nocodazole. There was often a direct continuity between 100 A filaments and paracrystals. The assembly of microtubules was examined in nocodazole-treated cells with special attention to possible initiating sites. We found an apparent association of microtubules with pore like structures associated with the endoplasmic reticulum. A complex system of 100 A filaments, microtubules and endoplasmic reticulum was observed. The significance of these results is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 2","pages":"320-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11773506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D J Morré, E L Vigil, C Frantz, H Goldenberg, F L Crane
{"title":"Cytochemical demonstration of glutaraldehyde-resistant NADH-ferricyanide oxido-reductase activities in rat-liver plasma membranes and Golgi apparatus.","authors":"D J Morré, E L Vigil, C Frantz, H Goldenberg, F L Crane","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>NADH-ferricyanide reductase activity was demonstrated in rat liver endomembranes by cytochemical procedures. The activity observed in plasma membrane and mature portions of the Golgi apparatus resisted fixation in 0.1% glutaraldehyde, a characteristic which permitted differentiation of the NADH-ferricyanide reductase of plasma membranes and mature Golgi apparatus elements from those of mitochondria, microbodies, endoplasmic reticulum and nuclear envelope. With the latter membranes, activity could be demonstrated only with unfixed material or following brief glutaraldehyde fixation and was greatest with broken cells or isolated fractions due to problems of penetration of reagents. Biochemical studies paralleled cytochemical findings with respect to glutaraldehyde fixation and sensitivity to other metabolic inhibitors. The findings provide evidence that a NADH-ferricyanide reductase may be among the membrane constituents conserved and/or modified during flow differentiation of membranes. The basis for a method to evaluate plasma membrane contamination of endoplasmic reticulum fractions and to differentiate among mature and immature secretory vesicles of the Golgi apparatus is also indicated.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 2","pages":"213-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11930166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ornithine decarboxylase activity in rat liver during phalloidin poisoning.","authors":"P Antony, H Schimassek","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rat liver ornithine decarboxylase activity was measured during phalloidin poisoning of 17 day-old rats, adult rats, and adult rats protected against phalloidin toxicity by pretreatment with somatotropin. The results show: 1. In adult rats, after a short period of activation, ornithine decarboxylase activity decreases to basal levels after phalloidin administration and remains so until death. 2. In somatotropin-pretreated rats, the enzyme activity increases with a peak 4 hours after injection of somatotropin but then drops rapidly to control levels. All rats survive poisoning. In somatotropin-pretreated rats that has also been given the ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor, 1,3-diaminopropane, phalloidin poisoning causes a decrease in the enzyme activity to basal levels and death of all animals. 3. In 17 day-old rats, ornithine decarboxylase activity decreased initially after phalloidin poisoning but then returned to unpoisoned levels. All rats survived poisoning, even those pretreated with 1,3-diaminopropane.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 2","pages":"244-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11930168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modified desmosomes in cultured epithelial cells.","authors":"H Zerban, W W Franke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Junctional complexes are described in various cultured cells of epithelial origin and morphology which show structural features different from those of both typical maculae adhaerentes and fasciae adhaerentes. Established rat kangaroo kidney-derived cell lines (PtK1 and PtK2) and secondary cultures of cells derived from lactating bovine mammary gland epithelium (BMGE) have been studied in particular detail. Several types of modified desmosomes are described which are characterized by altered dimensions and spacings of the individual desmosomal units, variations in intercellular gap width, less distinct submembranous coats and midline structures (dense strata) of the intercellular space, and lack of attachment of typical tonofibril-like bundles of tonofilaments. The observations suggest that progressive changes in junction morphology from desmosome-like to that of a more intermediate junction frequently occur during in vitro culturing of epithelial cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":75770,"journal":{"name":"Cytobiologie","volume":"18 2","pages":"360-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11773508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}