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Filamentous structures in adherent Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells treated with nonionic detergents

U Gobel, V Speth and W Bredt

Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells adhering to glass or Parlodion-coated grids were extracted with Triton X-100. The extracted cells showed a cytoskeleton consisting of a rodlike tip structure and a filamentous network in the cytoplasm. The tip structure was up to 300 nm long and approximately 40 nm wide ending at the distal end in a bleb-like structure, and seemed to consist of filaments arranged in parallel, 4.8 +/- 0.5 nm wide. In the cytoplasm the filaments formed an irregular lattice. Similar filaments were found in platinum replicated critical- point dried extracted cells. An actinlike nature of the filaments is suggested by some of their properties, but the degree of homology with respect to eucaryotic actin is still unknown. The filaments were sensitive to protease treatment but stable in high molar KCl solutions. They were apparently destroyed by incubation in high molar KI solution, leaving only some parts of the tip structure. Formaldehyde-fixed M. pneumoniae cells treated with Triton X-100 bound rhodamine-labeled phalloidin specifically. Furthermore, they could be stained with antiactin antibodies. Binding of myosin subfragment 1 to the filaments was not observed.
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