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Title: CIL:36631, Paramecium multimicronucleatum, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist
Creator: Allen, Richard
Contributor: Allen, Richard
Date Created and/or Issued: 2021
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
Collection: Cell Image Library
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Description: Occasionally mitochondria of Paramecium become filled with cristae that display a wavy or helical pattern. In thin sections these cristae are viewed as curved arcs as well as cross sectioned rows in different parts of the organelle. Stacks of decorated tubules of the contractile vacuole system are also seen in this micrograph. Cristae of mitochondria bear F1F0 ATP synthases while the decorated tubules bear the related V1V0 V-ATPase proton pump. The helical arrayed F1F0 and V1V0 units may be responsible for forming the tubular nature of the cristae and the tubular decorated spongiome (for discussion of this hypothesis see Allen, Protoplasma 189:1-8, 1995). TEM taken on 5/6/82 by R. Allen with Hitachi HU11A operating at 75kV. Neg. 14,250X. Bar = 0.5µm.
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:36631, Paramecium multimicronucleatum, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0MS3RP5
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Identifier: ark:/20775/bb0826420j
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Subject: Vacuolar proton-transporting V-type ATPase complex assembly
Mitochondrial proton-transporting ATP synthase complex assembly
Cell by organism
Eukaryotic cell
Contractile vacuole
Integral to contractile vacuolar membrane
Ciliated Protist
Eukaryotic Protist
Mitochondrion
Paramecium multimicronucleatum

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