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An antibody to the inner wall layer ofGloeomonas kupfferi was isolated and used in a developmental analysis of cell wall processing, secretion and extracellular assembly. The focus of the processing of this matrix layer is the endomembrane system, in particular the Golgi apparatus (GA) and contractile vacuole (CV). During interphase, inner wall materials are processed in the GA, packaged in trans face vesicles and transported to the CV, the final internal depository of wall precursors until release to the cell surface. During cell division, significant changes occur in the inner wall layer processing. Early on in cytokinesis, the GA does not label with our antibody, suggesting that other wall layers are being processed. In later stages of cytokinesis, the GA changes in morphology and begins to produce inner wall layer materials. These wall precursors are shuttled to the CV where they are released around the daughter cell protoplasts. The first wall layer that is formed around daughter cells is the crystalline median wall layer. Once assembled, the inner wall layer condenses upon the crystalline layer and grows in size.
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Domozych, D.S., Dairman, M. Synthesis of the inner cell wall layer of the chlamydomonad flagellate,Gloeomonas kupfferi . Protoplasma 176, 1–13 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01378933
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