Structural interaction of cytoskeletal components
Open Access
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 90 (1), 222-235
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.90.1.222
Abstract
Three-dimensional cytoskeletal organization of detergent-treated epithelial African green monkey kidney cells (BSC-1) and chick embryo fibroblasts was studied in whole-mount preparations visualized in a high voltage electron microscope. Stereo images are generated at both low and high magnification to reveal both overall cytoskeletal morphology and details of the structural continuity of different filament types. By the use of an improved extraction procedure in combination with heavy meromyosin subfragment 1 decoration of actin filaments, several new features of filament organization are revealed that suggest that the cytoskeleton is a highly interconnected structural unit.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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