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  • Title: An ultrastructural study of the relationship between the plasma membrane and the cell wall of the coenocytic alga hydrodictyon africanum.
    Author: Bailey DS, Northcote DH.
    Journal: J Cell Sci; 1977 Feb; 23():141-9. PubMed ID: 893533.
    Abstract:
    A wall/plasma membrane unit was prepared from Hydrodictyon africanum by microdissection. A replica of the inner surface of the membrane was made and by freeze-fracture of the whole cell, 2 corresponding internal fracture faces were obtained. The large coenocytes of the alga were plasmolysed and the wall separated by cutting it away. Its inner surface was directly viewed in the electron microscope after shadowing with Pt/C. Particles were found on the outer half of the internal fracture face of the membrane which were oriented in the same 2 directions as the microfibrils laid down at the inner surface of the wall. No structures were found at the inner surface of the membrane. Some evidence was obtained for a structural connexion between the innermost layers of the wall and the plasma membrane.
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