Flagellar elongation and shortening in chlamydomonas. II. Re-utilization of flagellar proteins.
Flagellar elongation and shortening in chlamydomonas. II. Re-utilization of flagellar proteins.
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DOI:
10.1083/jcb.47.3.777
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发表时间:
1970-12
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
Rosenbaum, J L
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作者:
Coyne, B;Rosenbaum, J L
TILE JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY±VOLUME 47. 1970. pages 777-781 777 approximately equal length, whereupon the two flagella elongate together by deceleratory kinetics. In the absence of protein synthesis, the pattern of events is similar to that occurring in uninhibited long-zero cells: The intact flagellum still shortens and the amputated flagellum elongates, and when they reach the same length they elongate together. Of particular interest here was the observation that in the absence of protein synthesis the total length of new flagellum formed in the long-zero cells was considerably greater than that formed in inhibited cells with both flagella removed. This result suggested that the additional flagellar growth in cycloheximide-inhibited longzero cells might be occurring by re-utilization of flagellar proteins from the shortening flagellum. If this were so, then, for long-zero cells in the presence of cycloheximide, the greater the initial length of the intact flagellum, the greater should be the flagellar length subsequently attained by regeneration. Moreover, for each additional micron of intact flagellum initially present in a longzero cell, there should be one-half micron added to the final length of each flagellum if, in fact, the flagellar precursor protein is being divided equally between the two flagella. Measurements reported here of the final flagellar lengths of single cells for a variety of initial lengths of the intact flagellum of long-zero cells in the presence of cycloheximide are in excellent agreement with this prediction, and support the conclusion that flagellar proteins from the shortening flagellum are re-utilized for the subsequent flagellar regeneration.