Nature of the Packing of Ribosomes within Chromatoid Bodies
- 8 April 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 152 (3719), 214-216
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.152.3719.214
Abstract
Optical Fourier transformns, made of electron mnicrographs of the crystalline array of ribonucleoprotein known as chromatoid bodies of Entamoeba invadens, have been interpreted as the transforms of a helix of 12 nodes in five turns. A model shows that this helix may be built of spheres 180 angstroms in diameter, placed at a radius of 150 angstroms. The optical transform of the model is very similar to the transform of the original electron micrograph.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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