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The viability of the chrysophycean flagellate,Poterioochromonas malhamensis, was examined after treatment of the cells with high temperatures. The fine structure of the cells was studied after heat-shock (42 °C, 16 minutes). Heat injury effects are visible at the nucleus, the chloroplast (distortion of the thylakoids), the mitochondria (increased occurrence of matrical crystalline inclusions) and, especially, at the dictyosome which is completely destroyed into some single vesicles and remnants of cisternae. Most damages are repaired within one hour; the reconstitution of the dictyosome takes 3–6 hours. It is inhibited severely by actinomycin D.
The effect on the dictyosome reflects its labile position in the endomembrane system. The dependence of its reconstitution on protein synthesis indicates that membrane components are destroyed by the heat-shock.
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Schnepf, E., Schmitt, U. Destruction and reconstitution of the dictyosome in the chrysophycean flagellate,Poterioochromonas malhamensis, after heat-shock, and other heat-shock effects. Protoplasma 106, 261–271 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01275557
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