Table III. Hook curvature for beam microtubules viewed looking away from the bundle's centrosomal end 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 | Total | MT with ambiguous hook decorationb |
Percentdecorated MTc | |
Bundle | ||||||||
A | 139 | 33 | 10 | 0 | 182 | 0 | 50 | 65 |
B | 87 | 28 | 12 | 0 | 127 | 3 | 24 | 56 |
C | 92 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 119 | 3 | 63 | 45 |
D | 62 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 89 | 4 | 39 | 41 |
E | 30 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 54 | 0 | 15 | 53 |
Totals | 410 | 123 | 37 | 1 | 571 | 10 | 191 | Mean = 52 |
All microtubules with clockwise hooks possessed one hook each. 98% 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.