Replacement of endoplasm with artificial media in plasmodial strands of Physarum polycephalum. Effects on contractility and morphology.
Replacement of endoplasm with artificial media in plasmodial strands of Physarum polycephalum. Effects on contractility and morphology.
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多头绒泡菌疟原虫链中的内质被人工培养基取代。
DOI:
10.1016/0014-4827(78)90064-2
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
K. G. Olenhusen
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作者:
Tetsuo Ueda;K. G. Olenhusen
The endoplasm in a plasmodial strand ofPhysarum polycephalumwas translocated with pressure and replaced with artificial media by pushing the endoplasm into other regions of the vein. Effects of injected chemicals were studied by measuring the oscillating tension force of the strands as well as their morphological response to this experimental procedure. The results can be summarized as follows.1.1. Cross sections of the strands show that nearly all of the endoplasm was replaced with injected media.2.2. The oscillatory contraction of the strand continued after replacing the endoplasm with oil or air. However, the amplitude of the tension force became smaller for about 5–10 min after the injection.3.3. An internal application of an aqueous solution (30 mM KCl, 3 mM MgCl2, 1 mM CaCl2, 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.1) arrested the oscillatory contraction and also caused a decrease of the tension force level. An addition of ATP to this solution induced oscillatory contraction, the optimal ATP concentration being 0.2 mM. Injection of a high ATP concentration led to a collapse of the ectoplasmic tube.4.4. The minimal requirement of injected Ca2+for contraction activity as well as for protoplasmic streaming was determined to be 2 × 10−7M, when the free Ca2+level was maintained by CaEGTA buffer.Effects of ATP and Ca2+on the contractility can be compared with those of ATPase activity of extracted actomyosin fromPhysarum polycephalum.Our results indicate that the ectoplasmic tube of a plasmodial strand is responsible for the contraction activity and that the chemicals injected as aqueous solutions have access more directly to the contractile system than those applied from outside the vein.