ArticleThe Journal of cell biology1987
Movement of the actin filament bundle in Mytilus sperm: a new mechanism is proposed.
Article in The Journal of cell biology, 1987. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Order, disorder, and perturbations in actin-aldolase rafts.Biophysical journal · 2003Article
- F-actin bundles are derivatives of microvilli: What does this tell us about how bundles might form?The Journal of cell biology · 2000Review
- F actin bundles in Drosophila bristles. I. Two filament cross-links are involved in bundling.The Journal of cell biology · 1995Article
- Morphological changes in liposomes caused by polymerization of encapsulated actin and spontaneous formation of actin bundles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1992Article
- Motility of bile canaliculi in the living animal: implications for bile flow.The Journal of cell biology · 1991Article
- Actin filaments, stereocilia, and hair cells of the bird cochlea. V. How the staircase pattern of stereociliary lengths is generated.The Journal of cell biology · 1988Article
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Abstract
An actin filament bundle approximately 2-5 microns in length is present in the sperm of the blue mussel, Mytilus. In unfired sperm this bundle extends from the midpiece through a canal in the center of the nucleus to terminate on the membrane limiting the inside of the cone-shaped acrosomal vacuole. The bundle is composed of 45-65 actin filaments which are hexagonally packed and regularly cross-bridged together to form an actin paracrystal so well ordered that it has six nearly equal faces. Upon induction of the acrosomal reaction, a needle-like process is formed in a few seconds. Within this process is the actin filament bundle which appears unchanged in filament number and packing as determined by optical diffraction methods. Using fluorescein-conjugated phalloidin we were able to establish that the bundle does not change length but instead is projected anteriorly out of the midpiece and nuclear canal like an arrow. Existing mechanisms to explain this extension cannot apply. Specifically, the bundle does not increase in length (no polymerization), does not change its organization (no change in actin twist), does not change filament number (no filament sliding), and cannot move by myosin (wrong polarity). Thus we are forced to look elsewhere for a mechanism and have postulated that at least a component of this movement, or cell elongation, is the interaction of the actin filament bundle with the plasma membrane.
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