Fraction of nucleus volume out of total cell volume

Value 12 %
Organism Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Reference Wu JQ, Pollard TD. Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast. Science. 2005 Oct 14 310(5746):pp. 313 Supporting Online Material - www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/310/5746/310/DC1 (p. 6) 2nd paragraphPubMed ID16224022
Method The point counting method was used to estimate the volume fraction of the various compartments in S. pombe cells from electron micrographs of thin sections of quick-frozen, freeze-substituted cells.
Comments See value of 8±1.3% in Neumann et al 2007 PMID 17998401 (Fig . 1A,B.) See value of 9% By EM tomography in Höög et al. 2007 PMID 17336902.
Entered by Uri M
ID 102284