Electrical properties and fusion dynamics of in vitro membrane vesicles derived from separate parts of the contractile vacuole complex of Paramecium multimicronucleatum

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3957-3969

  Sugino, Kazuyuki ^a,b   Tominaga, Takashi ^a,c   Allen, Richard D ^a   Naitoh, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contractile vacuole complex; Membrane dynamics; Membrane potential; Membrane resistance; Membrane tension; Membrane vesicle; Paramecium multimicronucleatum; Patch clamp; V ATPase; Water permeability

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; OSMOLARITY; PARAMECIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; ION CHANNELS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PARAMECIUM; VACUOLES; VIDEO RECORDING;

PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM MULTIMICRONUCLEATUM;

EID: 27744589295     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01858     Document Type: Article

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