Mass determination of the unit cell of the innermost chorionic layer in Drosophilidae by scanning transmission electron microscopy.

Autor: Papassideri IS; Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Kouponia, Athens, 15701, Greece., Leonard KR, Mills D, Margaritis LH
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of structural biology [J Struct Biol] 1999 Oct; Vol. 127 (3), pp. 258-62.
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4159
Abstrakt: The innermost chorionic layer (ICL) in eggshells of Drosophila melanogaster is a naturally occurring patchwork of thin three-dimensional crystalline plates located between the inner endochorion and the vitelline envelope. The mass-per-unit area of the ICL has been measured from scanning transmission electron microscope images of isolated unstained material and it was possible to distinguish up to four layers with the majority of the crystalline sheets being one to three layers thick. Taking into account the unit cell areas for the different crystals, we have estimated the mean ICL subunit sizes to be 36 kDa for Drosophila melanogaster, 35 kDa for Drosophila auraria, and 33 kDa for Drosophila teissieri. The results suggest that the three different Drosophilidae species have very similar average subunit masses.
(Copyright 1999 Academic Press.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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