A modified liquid-mosaic model of plasma membrane structure

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 328-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. K. Rybal'chenko
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Mosaic Model

Interpretation of yeast plasma membrane structure

Micron (1969) ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bullivant
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Yeast Plasma Membrane

Duchenne dystrophy: alteration in muscle plasma membrane structure

Science ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 196 (4293) ◽  
pp. 1005-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Schotland ◽  
E Bonilla ◽  
M Van Meter
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Duchenne Dystrophy ◽  
Muscle Plasma Membrane

An unusual cell surface modification: a double plasma membrane

1979 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-372
Author(s):  
N.J. Lane ◽  
J.B. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Cell Layer ◽  
Peritrophic Membrane ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Double Membrane ◽  
Freeze Fracturing ◽  
Blood Sucking ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
Insertion Sites

The occurrence of an unusual double plasma membrane structure is reported; it has been studied in conventional thin sections, after lanthanum-impregnation and with freeze-fracturing. This modification of the plasmalemma is found where the luminal cell membrane (I membrane) of gut microvilli in the haematophagous insect, Rhodnius prolixus, is surrounded by a second, outer membrane (O membrane), the 2 separated from one another by a highly regular I-O space of about 10 nm. Lanthanum impregnation reveals the presence of columns inclined at an angle, within this I-O space; as in the continuous junctions which link the lateral borders of these cells, these columns may maintain the very precise I-O distance. From the outer microvillar membranes radiate short spoke-like fibrils or sheets which encounter another more extensive system of myelin-like sheets. Freeze-fracturing reveals that the spoke-like sheets and the other ones which lie like a tube, around and parallel to the microvilli, contain linear ridges composed of particles, lying at random within layers of the myelin-like material which also extends into the lumen of the gut. The microvillar membanes, both O and I, fracture into faces containing rows of either PF particles or EF pits arranged as spiral ridges or grooves around the sides and across the tip of each microbillus. These could be the insertion sites of one or both of the I-O columns and spoke-like sheets while the sheets could represent a variant of peritrophic membrane. The double membrane may be a cellular device to increase the strength of the microvillar layer in these blood-sucking animals, since the cell layer must withstand great pressure owing to a sudden massive extension of the gut during a blood meal.

Synaptic Plasma Membrane Structure and Polarity of Long-Sleep and Short-Sleep Mice

1994 ◽  
Vol 309 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Schroeder ◽  
S.M. Colles ◽  
G.P. Kreishman ◽  
C.E. Heyliger ◽  
W.G. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Synaptic Plasma Membrane ◽  
Short Sleep ◽  
Long Sleep

scholarly journals Changes in plasma membrane structure and electromotile properties in prestin deficient outer hair cells

Cytoskeleton ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
David Z.Z. He ◽  
Shuping Jia ◽  
Takashi Sato ◽  
Jian Zuo ◽  
Leonardo R. Andrade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Hair Cells ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Outer Hair Cells

Plant cell plasma membrane structure and properties under clinostatting

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 71-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu.A. Polulakh ◽  
S.I. Zhadko ◽  
D.A. Klimchuk ◽  
V.A. Baraboy ◽  
A.N. Alpatov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Plant Cell ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Structure And Properties ◽  
Cell Plasma Membrane ◽  
Cell Plasma
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