Vaucheria hamata

TCs (Delmer 1999 Roberts et al. 2002), these domains are obvious candidates for playing a role in particle association in rosettes. This hypothesis is supported by the results of in vitro assays that directly implicate the zinc-binding domain in rosette assembly (Kurek et al. 2002). Terminal complex dissociation in response to cellulose synthesis inhibitors (Mizuta and Brown, Jr. 1992 Peng et al. 2001 Kiedaisch et al. 2003) suggest that the particles that compose linear and rosette TCs are held together in different ways. One of these inhibitors (AE FI 50944) is effective in organisms with rosettes, but not linear TCs (Kiedaisch et al. 2003), whereas another (dichlorobenzonitrile) disrupts the linear TCs of Vaucheria hamata (Mizuta and Brown, Jr. 1992). 

Mizuta S. and Brown, Jr. R.M., 1992. Effects of 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile and Tinopal LPW on the structure of the cellulose synthesizing complexes of Vaucheria hamata. Protoplasma 166 200-207. 

Table 12-1. Structural characteristics of TCs and cellulose microfibrils in xanthophycean algae Botrydiopsis interceden, Botrydlum stolonifelum and Vaucheria hamata...

Mizuta S., Roberts E.M., and Brown, Jr. R.M. 1989. A new cellulose synthesizing complex in Vaucheria hamata and its relation to microflbril assembly. In Schuerch C. (ed.) Cellulose and Wood-Chemistry and Technology. Wiley, New York, pp. 656 76. 

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