Abstract
By using freeze-fracture electron microscopy, chromatophores and spheroplast-derived membrane vesicles from photosynthetically grown Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides were compared with cytoplasmic membrane and intracellular vesicles of whole cells. In whole cells, the extracellular fracture faces of both cytoplasmic membrane and vesicles contained particles of 11-nm diameter at a density of about 5 particles per 10(4) nm2. The protoplasmic fracture faces contained particles of 11 to 12-nm diameter at a density of 14.6 particles per 10(4) nm2 on the cytoplasmic membrane and a density of 31.3 particles per 10(4) nm2 on the vesicle membranes. The spheroplast-derived membrane fraction consisted of large vesicles of irregular shape and varied size, often enclosing other vesicles. Sixty-six percent of the spheroplast-derived vesicles were oriented in the opposite way from the intracellular vesicle membranes of whole cells. Eighty percent of the total vesicle surface area that was exposed to the external medium (unenclosed vesicles) showed this opposite orientation. The chromatophore fractions contained spherical vesicles of uniform size approximately equal to the size of the vesicles in whole cells. The majority (79%) of the chromatophores purified on sucrose gradients were oriented in the same way as vesicles in whole cells, whereas after agarose filtration almost all (97%) were oriented in this way. Thus, on the basis of morphological criteria, most spheroplast-derived vesicles were oriented oppositely from most chromatophores.
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