Article
Real-time observation of Ca2+-induced basal body reorientation in Chlamydomonas.
Cell motility and the cytoskeleton - 1 Jan 1998
Hayashi M, Yagi T, Yoshimura K, Kamiya R
Abstract excerpt
The two basal bodies of Chlamydomonas are connected by a bridge, the distal fiber, that contains a Ca2+-binding protein, centrin. Although various fibrous structures in many organisms containing centrin or similar proteins have been shown to contract at Ca2+ concentrations >10(-7)-10(-6) M, the c...
Topics
- Animals
- Calcium
- Calcium Chloride
- Calcium-Binding Proteins
- Chlamydomonas
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone
- Contractile Proteins
- Flagella
- Microscopy, Electron
- Microtubules
- Mutation