...@umbc.edu ) 18 12 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 Signal sequence Membrane skeleton Alveolata Protist Epiplasm Pellicle Cortical cytoskeleton Repetitive protein domains Ciliate expression library Eukaryotic cells typically stabilize their plasma...

...Irm Huttenlauch; Robert K. Peck; Reimer Stick ABSTRACT The cortex of ciliates, dinoflagellates and euglenoids comprises a unique structure called the epiplasm, implicated in pattern-forming processes of the cell cortex and in maintaining cell shape. Despite significant variation in the structural...

...Irm Huttenlauch; Robert K. Peck; Uwe Plessmann; Klaus Weber; Reimer Stick ABSTRACT Most protists possess a unique membrane skeleton, the epiplasm, which is involved in pattern forming processes of the cell cortex and functions in maintaining cell shape. Articulins, a novel class of cytoskeletal...

...Pierre Nahon; Gérard Coffe; Hervé Le Guyader; Julienne Darmanaden-Delorme; Rachel Jeanmaire-Wolf; Jean-Claude Clérot; André Adoutte ABSTRACT In most ciliates, the epiplasm, a superficial cytoskeletal layer of variable thickness, both surrounds basal bodies and interacts tightly with adjacent...

...Sophie Curtenaz; Robert K. Peck ABSTRACT The membrane skeleton, or epiplasm, of the ciliated protozoon Pseudomicrothorax dubius is a chemically and structurally complex layer. It is responsible for the cell shape and the positioning of some cortical organelles. One may expect that its possible...