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Three-dimensional visualization of basal body structures and some cytoskeletal components in the apical zone of tracheal ciliated cells
Authors:T Arima  Y Shibata  T Yamamoto
Abstract:The ciliated cells of tracheal epithelium were mechanically fragmented to remove the cytoplasmic soluble contents, and the apical zone was examined to clarify the three-dimensional structures of basal body and cytoskeletal filaments using freeze-fracture-etch approaches. The basal body was connected to the apical plasma membrane by definite laminae, formerly called alar sheets. The distal one-half of the basal foot was composed of several smooth-surfaced 12-nm fibrils. Intermediate filament networks extended to the lower half plane of the basal body, and enmeshed the basal body tightly by tiny 5- to 8-nm fibrils. Actin core bundles of microvilli also had tiny crosslinking fibrils. Some actin filaments were seen to run horizontally at the upper half plane of the basal body. Tracheal cilated cells also had circular actin filament bundles just inside the zonula adherens as many other epithelial cells. These cytoskeletal networks which enmeshed both basal bodies and core filaments of microvilli may function as a coordinator of ciliary beating.
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