ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS IN GROWTH AND INANITION

Electron Microscopic Observations of Amoeba Proteus in Growth and Inanition

Electron microscopic observations have been made on growing and dividing specimens of Amoeba proteus and also on starving animals. Structures presumably corresponding to the mitochondria, alpha particles, vacuoles, and Golgi material are described. A new entity, designated as a foamy particle, is noted. Descriptions are given of the cytoplasmic and nuclear membranes. During division the inner, ...

Some Observations on the Behaviour of Amoeba proteus

Electron Microscopy of the Nuclear Membrane of Amoeba Proteus

An electron microscope study of the nuclear membrane of Amoeba proteus by thin sectioning techniques has revealed an ultrastructure in the outer layer of the membrane that is homologous to the pores and annuli observed in the nuclear membranes of many other cell types studied by these techniques. An inner honeycombed layer apparently unique to Amoeba proteus is also described.

Filaments of Amoeba Proteus

Amoeba proteus has two types of cytoplasmic filaments that are thought to be important in cell motility, cytoplasmic streaming, and changes in cytoplasmic consistency : thin, 50-70 A wide filaments, and short, thick, 160 A wide rods (Pollard and Ito, 1970) . The thin filaments resemble the actin filaments of muscle (Hanson and Lowy, 1963), Acanthamoeba (Weihing and Korn, 1969 ; Pollard et al .,...

Membrane potentials in Amoeba proteus.