ArticleProtoplasma1993
Statoliths pull on microfilaments: experiments under microgravity.
Article in Protoplasma, 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interactome of miRNAs and transcriptome of human umbilical cord endothelial cells exposed to short-term simulated microgravity.NPJ microgravity · 2020Article
- In Memoriam: Zygmunt Hejnowicz (1929-2016).Plant signaling & behavior · 2017Article
- The impact of microgravity and hypergravity on endothelial cells.BioMed research international · 2015Review
- Ground-based facilities for simulation of microgravity: organism-specific recommendations for their use, and recommended terminology.Astrobiology · 2013Review
- Rhizoids and protonemata of characean algae: model cells for research on polarized growth and plant gravity sensing.Protoplasma · 2006Review
- How to activate a plant gravireceptor. Early mechanisms of gravity sensing studied in characean rhizoids during parabolic flights.Plant physiology · 2005Article
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- Association of spectrin-like proteins with the actin-organized aggregate of endoplasmic reticulum in the Spitzenkörper of gravitropically tip-growing plant cells.Plant physiology · 2001Article
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- Centrifugation causes adaptation of microfilaments: studies on the transport of statoliths in gravity sensing Chara rhizoids.Protoplasma · 1993Article
- Complex physiological and molecular processes underlying root gravitropism.Plant molecular biologyReview
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Abstract
Previous videomicroscopy of Chara rhizoids during parabolic flights of rockets showed that the weightless statoliths moved basipetally. A hypothesis was offered that the removal of gravity force disturbed the initial balance between this force and the basipetally acting forces generated in a dynamic interaction of statoliths with microfilaments (MFs). The prediction of this hypothesis that the statoliths would not be displaced basipetally during the microgravity phase (MG-phase) after disorganizing the MFs was tested by videomicroscopy of a rhizoid treated with cytochalasin D (CD) immediately before the flight. The prediction was fully supported by the flight experiment. Additionally, by chemical fixation of many rhizoids at the end of the MG-phase it was shown that all rhizoids treated with CD before the flight had statoliths at the same location. i.e., sedimented an the apical cell wall, while all untreated rhizoids had statoliths considerably displaced basipetally from their normal position. Thus, a dynamical interaction involving shearing forces between MFs and statoliths appears highly probable.
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