Formation of bundles of microfilaments during spreading of fibroblasts on the substrate |
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Authors: | E. E. Bragina Ju. M. Vasiliev I. M. Gelfand |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Experimental and Clinical Oncology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of USSR, and Moscow State University, Moscow M-478, USSR |
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Abstract: | Electron microscopy was used to study the sites of formation of bundles of parallel microfilaments in the early stages of spreading of normal mouse embryo fibroblasts on the substrate. Bundles of microfilaments were not found in suspended cells. Contact of the surface of spherical cells with the substrate was not sufficient for the formation of bundles: these bundles were not seen near the under surface of cells that were already attached to the substrate but had not yet developed cytoplasmic outgrowths at their periphery. Peripheral cytoplasmic outgrowths (microspikes and lamellar processes) attached to the substrate were found to be the only sites of localization of the first bundles of microfilaments seen in the spreading cells. It is suggested that surface and/or cytoplasm of the newly-formed peripheral cytoplasmic outgrowth may have some special properties necessary for the initiation of the development of microfilament bundles. |
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