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. 2002 Jun 10;157(6):1041–1048. doi: 10.1083/jcb.200203001

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
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.

a

Details of the number of counterclockwise, or clockwise, hooks per microtubule are shown for each bundle. Most microtubule profiles possessed one hook each.

b

Details of the ambiguous patterns of decoration are given in the text.

c

The percentage of cross-sectional microtubule profiles in each bundle that had been decorated.