Zusammenfassung
Der Bau des FlagellatenSynura petersenii und die Substruktur der Mastigonemen werden beschrieben. Coated vesicles finden sich in Verbindung mit Golgi-Zisternen, Cytolysosomen, ER-Elementen, jungen Schuppenvesikeln und dem Plasmalemma. 17 nm dicke Tubuli kommen im Lumen von Elementen des ER und des Golgi-Apparates vor. Die Kieselschuppen entstehen in besonderen Schuppenvesikeln, die zunÄchst dicht an periplastidÄren ER-Zisternen liegen und die Form einer ovalen, flachen Zisterne haben und sich dann unter der Beteiligung der periplastidÄren ER-Zisterne und vielleicht der Mikrotubuli zu einer exakten Gu\form für die Kieselschuppen umbilden. Die Schuppenmorphogenese ist also auf eine Morphogenese des Schuppenvesikels zurückzuführen.
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Cells of Synura petersenii were studied by electron microscopy. One flagellum is covered by little non-silicified scales and fitted with mastigonemes, whose middle piece mainly consists of two helically wound filaments with a diameter of 4.5 nm. They end in a longer and a smaller terminal fibril. The flagellar bases are fixed to the nucleus and the border of the flagellar pit by several elements of the flagellar root. From this root and from the border of the flagellar pit, microtubules extend along the plasmalemma and along the concave face of the plastids to the basal cell pole.
The plastids are enveloped by a periplastidal cisterna of the ER which often is in continuity with the nuclear envelope. Within these compartments there are bundles of tubules with a diameter of 17 nm. Such tubules are also found within peripheral parts of Golgi cisternae of the distal face of the dictyosome.
In the region of the dictyosome but also in other parts of the cell there are many coated vesicles. They seem to bud off the Golgi cisternae and fuse with cytolysosomes (which also may be derivatives of the Golgi apparatus), or with young “scale forming vesicles”, or with the ER, or with the plasmalemma.
The silicified scales cover the cell body and are formed in special vesicles. At first these vesicles are ovoid, flattened cisternae attached to peripheral parts of the periplastidal cisterna. They undergo a complicated formation process. The margins fold over, the periplastidal cisterna locally mushrooms out and pushes outward on the central part of the scale forming vesicle. This complex protuberance then remodels into a hollow cylinder which is connected with the underlying parts by a short hollow stalk. In this way the scale forming vesicle represents a true mould for the scale. The morphogenesis of the scale therefore is a consequence of the morphogenesis of these membranes. Local growth of the membranes and perhaps microtubules play a role in this process.
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Wir danken Herrn Dr. W.Koch, Göttingen, für die überlassung einerSynura-Kultur und für wichtige Hinweise sowie der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft für ihre Unterstützung.
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Schnep, E., DeichgrÄber, G. über die Feinstruktur vonSynura petersenii unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Morphogenese ihrer Kieselschuppen. Protoplasma 68, 85–106 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01247899
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