Circumference of uncontracted actin ring

Value 10.3 µm
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. 313PubMed ID16224022
Primary Source Kanbe T, Kobayashi I, Tanaka K. Dynamics of cytoplasmic organelles in the cell cycle of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: three-dimensional reconstruction from serial sections.PubMed ID2630561
Method Electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction from serial sections.
Comments In serial sectioned TEM images, filasomes were spherical, 100-300 nm in diameter and consisted of a single microvesicle (35-70 nm diameter) surrounded by fine filaments.
Entered by Uri M
ID 102272