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Title: CIL:39799, Tetrahymena pyriformis, 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: A partially filled contractile vacuole is connected to two regions of spongiome tubules. The extra CV membrane is acquired from these spongiomes. Presumably some of these spongiome tubules are decorated with pegs which in Paramecium are known to be V-type proton pumps. A spent vacuole lies nearby and has a filamentous area in which membrane tubulation and vesiculation is taking place. A similar filamentous array does not appear to be present in the spongiome region of the CV or along the CV membrane itself. TEM taken on 4/21/78 by R. Allen with Hitachi HU11A operating at 60kV. Neg. 9,200X. Bar = 0.5µm. The negative was printed to paper and the image was scanned to Photoshop. This digitized image is available for qualitative analysis. There is a high resolution version of this image in the library (CIL:39799) which is available for quantitative analysis. Additional information available at (http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/allen/).
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:39799, Tetrahymena pyriformis, 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/J0RF5TCH
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb3454502x
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Contractile vacuole organization
Cell by organism
Contractile vacuolar membrane
Contractile vacuole pore
Eukaryotic cell
Eukaryotic Protist
Intrinsic to contractile vacuolar membrane
Contractile vacuole
Ciliated Protist
Proton-transporting V-type ATPase complex
Food vacuole
Tetrahymena pyriformis
Cell Image Library Group ID: 10786

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