Table II. Hook curvature for apico-basally viewed pillar microtubules in the outer pillar cells of a 21-d-old mouse.
| MT with counterclockwise hooks/hooks per MTa |
MT with clockwise hooks/hooks per MTa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | 1 | 2 | Total | MT with ambiguous hook decorationb |
Percentdecorated MTc | |
| Bundle | ||||||||||
| A | 105 | 20 | 13 | 1 | 139 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 114 | 27 |
| B | 35 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 42 | 12 |
| C | 27 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 29 |
| D | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 29 |
| E | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Totals | 205 | 37 | 19 | 1 | 262 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 192 | Mean = 21 |
95% of the unambiguously decorated microtubules bore counterclockwise hooks.
Details of the number of counterclockwise, or clockwise, hooks per microtubule are shown for each bundle. Most microtubule profiles possessed one hook each.
Details of the ambiguous patterns of decoration are given in the text.
The percentage of cross-sectional microtubule profiles in each bundle that had been decorated.