| Title |
Intercellular communication and tissue growth: IX. Junctional membrane structure of hybrids between communication-competent and communication-incompetent cells
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|---|---|
| Published in |
The Journal of Membrane Biology, December 1977
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| DOI | 10.1007/bf01870292 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
W. J. Larsen, R. Azarnia, W. R. Loewenstein |
| Abstract |
The structure of the membrane junctions of the hybrid cell system, examined in the companion paper in respect to competence for communication through cell-to-cell membrane channels, is here examined by freeze-fracture electron microscopy. The junctions of the channel-competent parent cell and of the channel-competent hybrid cells present aggregates of intramembranous particles typical of "gap junction"; those of the channel-incompetent parent cell and channel-incompetent segregant hybrid cells do not. Competence for junctional communication and for gap junction formation are genetically related. The junctions of the intermediate hybrid cells with incomplete channel-competence (characterized by cell-to-cell transfer of small inorganic ions but not of fluorescein), present special intramembranous fibrillar structures instead of discrete gap-junctional particles. The possibility that these structures may constitute coupling elements with subnormal permeability is discussed in terms of incomplete dominance of the genetic determinants of gap junction. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 6 | 86% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 3 | 43% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 29% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 14% |
| Professor | 1 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 57% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 14% |
| Psychology | 1 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 14% |
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