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A cytochemical technique for detection of polysaccharides indicates that the Golgi-derived adhesive vesicles in swimming zoospores contain glycoprotein. The carbohydrate moiety appears to be polymerized after the vesicles have become detached from the Golgi apparatus.
EM autoradiography usingL-leucine-4,5-3H shows that protein synthesized in the ER passes through the Golgi complex into the adhesive vesicles. On settlement the vesicles discharge their content as a fibrillar attaching material.
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Callow, M.E., Evans, L.V. Studies on the ship-fouling algaEnteromorpha . Protoplasma 80, 15–27 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01666348
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