Cytoskeletal ultrastructure and motility of cells

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 745-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Day Allen
Keyword(s):  
Human Blood ◽  
Blood Platelets ◽  
Contractile Proteins ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Motile Cells ◽  
Human Blood Platelets

A brief review of the role of contractile proteins in dynamic changes in the cytoskeletons of motile cells is followed by a more detailed account of cytoskeletal ultrastructure in the motility of the giant amoeba, Chaos carolinensis and of human blood platelets.

scholarly journals The activity and subcellular distribution of the peroxisomal enzyme acyl-CoA oxidase in human blood platelets

1992 ◽  
Vol 286 (3) ◽  
pp. 829-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Farstad ◽  
A M Bakken ◽  
R K Berge
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Human Blood ◽  
Subcellular Distribution ◽  
Blood Platelets ◽  
Peroxisomal Enzyme ◽  
Good Accordance ◽  
Tubular System ◽  
Acyl Coa Oxidase ◽  
Human Blood Platelets

The peroxisomal enzyme acyl-CoA oxidase is localized in the ‘dense-tubular-system-enriched fraction’, probably identical with the endoplasmic reticulum, in human blood platelets. This localization is strongly different from the localization of catalase which seems to be a cytosolic enzyme, in agreement with Marcus, Zucker-Franklin, Safir & Ullman [(1966) J. Clin. Invest. 45, 14-28]. A localization of acyl-CoA oxidase in the endoplasmic reticulum seems to be in good accordance with the important role of peroxisomes in the metabolism of prostaglandins, as recently demonstrated by Diczfalusy, Kase, Alexson & Bjørkhem [(1991) J. Clin. Invest. 88, 978-984].

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