{"title":"Spermiogenesis in the gall-midge Monarthropalpus buxi (Cecidomyiidae, Diptera)","authors":"B.Jazdowska Zagrodzinska , R. Dallai","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90022-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90022-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In <em>Monarthropalpus</em> spermiogenesis only two spermatids, orthogonally oriented, and a large residual cell are formed from each spermatocyte. The three cells are mutually connected through a cytoplasmic bridge. Later, the residual cell degenerates, Golgi systems are present in early spermatids; they never originate acrosomal vesicles and are eliminated with remnants of cytoplasm at the end of cell maturation. Mitochondria, always isolated, are localized in the postnuclear region in the early stage but, during spermiogenesis, they migrate anteriorly, in front of the nucleus. Microtubules are present during the whole spermiogenesis but they disappear at cell maturity. The aberrant axoneme of the motile spermatozoa is formed by a large number of microtubular doublets, each having only an outer dynein arm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 2","pages":"Pages 156-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90022-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53916227","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}
Károly Trombitás, Peter H.W.W. Baatsen, Gerald H. Pollack
{"title":"I-bands of striated muscle contain lateral struts","authors":"Károly Trombitás, Peter H.W.W. Baatsen, Gerald H. Pollack","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90055-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90055-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In electron micrographs of striated muscle, the I-band often shows a distinct cross-striation. The periodicity of this striation is near 40 nm and has been attributed to troponin, which is localized along the thin filament. However, the cross-striation is often so prominent as to be suggestive of physical structures running transversely across the I-band. We examined I-band ultrastructure using three independent methods: thin sections of chemically fixed specimens; freeze-fracture; and freeze-substitution. With all three methods we found transverse structures distributed throughout the I-band, many of which bridged the gap between neighboring filaments. Such structures were observed in each of the several species studied. In fish muscle in particular, which has a highly regular lattice, it was obvious that these structures gave rise to the observed periodicity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 13-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90055-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14392564","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}
Martin Kessel , E.Loren Buhle Jr. , Simone Cohen , Ueli Aebí
{"title":"The cell wall structure of a magnesium-dependent Halobacterium, Halobacterium volcanii CD-2, from the Dead Sea","authors":"Martin Kessel , E.Loren Buhle Jr. , Simone Cohen , Ueli Aebí","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90062-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90062-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cell wall preparations from the magnesium-dependent halophilic bacterium, <em>Halobacterium volcanii</em>, were studied by high-resolution electron microscopy complemented with image analysis and processing. For ultrastructural studies, specimens were prepared by a variety of methods, including negative staining, and metal shadowing after air-drying, freeze-drying, or freeze-fracturing and etching. All methods revealed the cell wall to be composed of a near-hexagonal lattice of unit cells having a center-to-center spacing of 15.5 nm. While negatively stained samples yielded two types of stain exclusion patterns, termed “honeycomb” and “rosette,” metal-shadowed specimens invariably revealed the unit cell to be composed of six protomers surrounding a central mass depression. This low-resolution unit cell morphology appears very similar to that of other bacterial cell wall S-layers studied to date.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 94-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90062-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14338791","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}
Hans Hebert , Elisabeth Skriver , Margareta Söderholm , Arvid B. Maunsbach
{"title":"Three-dimensional structure of renal Na,K-ATPase determined from two-dimensional membrane crystals of the p1 form","authors":"Hans Hebert , Elisabeth Skriver , Margareta Söderholm , Arvid B. Maunsbach","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90061-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90061-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electron microscopy and image processing were used to reconstruct a three-dimensional model of membrane-bound monomeric renal Na,K-ATPase from negatively stained two-dimensional crystals of the p1 type. Correlation methods were applied to obtain projection averages which were aligned by a phase difference minimization procedure. The self-consistency of the reconstruction process was high as determined by correlation between experimental projections and projections of the calculated model. The three-dimensional model of the Na,K-ATPase protomer in the p1 crystal form contains three characteristic domains, a protein dense ellipsoid, a small globular stain deficient domain, and a connecting low-contrast region. The latter is thought to correspond to the lipid-penetrating part of the Na,K-ATPase protomer. The location of this domain gives the protein an asymmetric distribution in the bilayer so that it is exposed primarily on one side proposed to correspond to the intracellular face.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 86-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90061-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13988178","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":"Ultrastructure of spinach thylakoids as seen in low-temperature and conventional embeddings","authors":"Claes Weibull , Per-Åke Alertsson","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90058-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90058-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Low-temperature embeddings of glutaraldehyde-fixed spinach chloroplasts were obtained by dehydrating the organelles with ethanol and infiltrating them with a Lowicryl resin at −35°C or below. Polymerization was achieved by uv light at the infiltration temperature. In uranyl acetate-stained sections of the embedded material the thylakoids appeared, when studied with the TEM, as broad, light bands separated by thin, dark strata. The central, structureless space, the lumen, present in osmium tetroxide-fixed specimens embedded at room temperature was not observed. However, in thylakoids of chloroplasts infiltrated with Lowicryl at 0 °C, a lumen appeared, consisting of an almost homogeneous dark layer or of a row of dark spots interspersed by light ones. Our results suggest that the width of the lumen in thylakoids of living cells is subelectron microscopical at least under certain physiological conditions, since low-temperature embedding favors a life-like preservation of cell structures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 55-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90058-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53917188","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":"Bending of 9 + “1” axonemes of flatworm spermatozoa in hypotonic media: An experimental study","authors":"Jean-Lou Justine , Xavier Mattei","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90056-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90056-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Spermatozoa of the monogenan <em>Amphibdella paronaperugiae</em> are fundamentally straight-shaped and made up of an anterior centriole followed by a 9 + “1” axoneme, associated with a filiform mitochondrion and nucleus. Observations were made of individuals in male phase, parasitic in the heart cavity of the torpedo-ray <em>Torpedo marmorata</em>, the blood of which is known to display a high osmolarity (900–1200 mOsm) primarily due to the presence of urea and sodium chloride. Spermatozoa were studied in ultrathin sections of whole parasites. When submitted to a low osmotic pressure, the spermatozoa of <em>Amphibdella</em> folded or coiled on themselves. Experiments were performed to induce these folds with media of varying osmolarity containing urea, sodium chloride, or both. Media of osmolarity higher than 600 mOsm did not induce folding; media of osmolarity about 300 mOsm induced folds. It is hypothesized that the folds of the spermatozoa are produced by folds of the 9 + “1” axoneme, related to water permeability of the sperm cell membrane. Several fixatives (glutaraldehyde in sodium cacodylate buffer, with addition of varying proportions of sucrose, sodium chloride, and urea) were tested; the osmolarity of the fixative was found to have no influence on sperm folds, probably because these folds are physiological phenomena induced only in living sperm cells, not in cells killed by the fixative.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 31-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90056-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53917138","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":"Changes in the distribution of intramembranous particles and filipin-sterol complexes during epididymal maturation of golden hamster spermatozoa","authors":"F. Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90057-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90057-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Golden hamster spermatozoa in various segments of the excurrent duct system were studied by freeze-fracture with and without filipin treatment. Two types of regular IMP (intramembranous particle) patterns temporarily appear on the plasma membrane covering the sperm head. One is a hexagonal arrangement seen in the acrosomal region, and the other is a linear arrangement near the posterior ring. Both patterns are seen in the spermatozoa from the corpus epididymidis. The FSC (filipin-sterol complex) density in the plasma membrane covering the acrosome increases from about 400 to 500 FSC/μm<sup>2</sup> during epididymal passage. In this region, the majority of the membrane sterols appears to reside on the outer leaflet of the lipid bilayer. When the spermatozoa reach the cauda epididymidis, FSCs in the outer acrosomal membrane virtually disappear from the apical segment, while they increase in the middle segment (250 FSC/μm<sup>2</sup>). These observations are discussed in relation to epididymal maturation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 39-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90057-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14338789","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}
J.R. Kuszak , C.A. Ennesser , J. Umlas , M.S. Macsai-Kaplan , R.S. Weinstein
{"title":"The ultrastructure of fiber cells in primate lenses: A model for studying membrane senescence","authors":"J.R. Kuszak , C.A. Ennesser , J. Umlas , M.S. Macsai-Kaplan , R.S. Weinstein","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90059-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90059-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We have compared the surface morphology of the youngest (cortical) fiber cells with that of the most senescent (nuclear) fiber cells in monkey and baboon crystalline lenses by stereo scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thick-section stereo transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Both the broad and the narrow faces of the most senescent fiber cells featured distinctive, polygonal areas (domains) of furrowed cell membrane. The domains ranged n size from 2.42 to 8.78 μm<sup>2</sup>. Stereopair SEM and TEM micrographs demonstrated precisely oriented microvilli measuring approximately 0.14 μm in diameter and ranging in length from 1.27 to 4.65 μm overlying each ridge in the domains. Formation of microvilli on senescent cells has been noted in other types of aging cells but they are precisely arranged and their function is unknown. Since every fiber cell remains in a fixed location (relative to other fiber cells) throughout life, the lens provides a unique model to study structure-function relationships of senescent microvilli <em>in situ</em>. The discovery of an age-related elaboration of numerous microvilli on senescent fiber cells of noncataractous lenses invalidates the currently accepted theory that close, parallel apposition of the broad faces of lens fiber cells is necessary for the lens to be transparent.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 60-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90059-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14338790","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}
Anne-Christine Edman , John M. Squire , Michael Sjöström
{"title":"Fine structure of the A-band in cryo-sections diversity of M-band structure in chicken breast muscle","authors":"Anne-Christine Edman , John M. Squire , Michael Sjöström","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90054-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90054-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electron micrographs of longitudinal ultrathin cryo-sections and plastic sections of chicken pectoralis muscle together with their average images have been used to study in detail the axial structure of the M-band. It was found that M-band structure could vary markedly in different fibres, even within the white part of the muscle. Strong M-band density (“M-bridges”) could be seen at M4 and M4′ in all fibres. On the other hand the density at M1 or M6 could vary systematically. Some fibres (probably fast) had M1 strong, M6 weak (a “3-line” M-band), and the Z-band was narrow. Other fibres, especially (but not exclusively) in the red part of the muscle and probably slow, had M6 strong, M1 weak (a “4-line” M-band), and the Z0band was broad. However, the majority of fibres ranged in structure between those two extremes and had a more or less “5-line” M-band with M1 and M6 both strong and a Z-band of intermediate width. Since they were such a constant feature, the M4 lines may be the sites of the primarily structural component of the M-band, whereas the different proteins at M1 and M6 may vary in quantity according to the physiological needs of the fibre. Finally, detailed analysis sometimes revealed substructure within the strong M-bridge lines. This substructure may represent additional unknown M-band proteins or may be an indication of the shape of single proteins at these positions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90054-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14337452","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":"La spermiogenèse de Myzostomum sp. (Procoelomata, Myzostomida)","authors":"Xavier Mattei, Bernard Marchand","doi":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90060-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0889-1605(88)90060-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The nucleus of the <em>Myzostomum</em> spermatid contains chromatin and protein granules. The single centriole gives rise to a 9 + 0 type flagellum and then migrates in the cytoplasm of the spermatid. A cytoplasmic canal is thus constituted toward which the mitochondria migrate. The nucleus becomes longer and 16 to 18 microtubules appear on its periphery, forming a rudimentary manchette. The cytoplasmic canal then opens along almost its whole length. The flagellum is thus in an extracellular position. The nuclear envelope breaks open, bringing the nuclear and cytoplasmic elements into direct contact. A nucleocytoplasmic derivative in which the chromatin is peripheral and the protein granules are in a central position is thus formed. The centriole, capped by a vesicle, undergoes a second forward migration which does not end until the distal extremity of the flagellum has gone past the posterior extremity of the nucleocytoplasmic derivative. The free-swimming part of the flagellum now constitutes the anterior portion of the spermatozoon. The vesicle attached to the centriole turns into a rod which protrudes at the front of the gamete. The microtubules of the manchette persist in the spermatozoon where they are arranged against the plasma membrane. The spermatozoon in propelled by two types of motion. The first, which is not very effective, causes a forward movement, with the flagellum in front. We suppose it is due to undulations which go from the centriole toward the extremity of the flagellum. The second, which is rapid and effective, produces a backward movement, with the flagellum behind. It appears to be due to the intervention of the microtubules which deform the nucleocytoplasmic derivative and transmit undulations to the flagellum, going from its distal extremity toward the centriole.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77743,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ultrastructure and molecular structure research","volume":"100 1","pages":"Pages 75-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0889-1605(88)90060-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53917219","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}