The endogenous difference in the rates of acropetal and basipetal cytoplasmic streaming inChara rhizoids is enhanced by gravity |
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Authors: | Z Hejnowicz Brigitte Buchen A Sievers |
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Institution: | (1) Botanical Institute, University of Bonn, Venusbergweg 22, D-5300 Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany;(2) Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, Silesian University, ul. Jagiellonsky 28, P-40-032 Katowice, Poland |
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Abstract: | Summary Measurements of cytoplasmic streaming inChara rhizoids were made by a streak-photography method combined with dark-field illumination. The velocity of cytoplasmic streaming in the acropetal direction was faster than in the basipetal direction. The difference in the streaming velocities in both morphological directions was apparently due to endogenous forces. In addition to this, a small difference attributable to gravity was superimposed if the rhizoid was oriented parallel to the gravity vector. The difference in the endogenous forces underlying the oppositely directed streams may be as high as about 12-fold the force imposed by gravity but, on average, it is about 5-fold the gravity force. In the normal vertical position of the rhizoid, this endogenously generated difference is enhanced by the gravity effect. In contrast to the variability of streaming rate due to endogenous forces, the effect of the gravity force is relatively uniform. The difference between acropetal and basipetal streaming velocities is perpetuated over the whole range of lowered velocities after treatment with cytochalasin B. After prolonged incubation in cytochalasin B, the basipetal streaming stops earlier than the acropetal streaming. A difference in the length of filaments on both sides of the streaming machinery in rhizoids is proposed as the structural basis for the difference in velocities. |
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Keywords: | Chara rhizoid CB action Cytoplasmic streaming Gravity Polarity |
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