In this image a portion of the true surface of the plasma membrane is exposed where the culture medium has been etched away. The IMPs of the plates can also be viewed less distinctly on the true surfa...

The P-face of the ciliary membrane at the base of the cilium has 9 triple rows of IMPs in register with the 9 doublets of the internal axoneme. It is thought that these IMPs may be sites of calcium in...

Quick-freeze deep-etch of granulo-fibrillar material at the crests of the ridges. This material is composed of thinner and shorter filaments that, like the striated bands, appear to bind to the membra...

Isolated mitochondria that have been quick-frozen, fractured and deep-etched show some space between the inner and outer membranes. Arcs of tubules, where they are tangentially fractured, show the hel...

Freeze fracture of the plasma membrane and outer alveolar membrane of the pellicle of V. microstoma. The surface of Vorticella is encircled by rings which follow the septa of underlying alveoli. In th...

High resolution image of vesicles and early endosomes under the membranelles of the peniculus of the buccal cavity. Cilia and basal bodies are tangentially fractured in this quick-freeze deep-etch pre...

Quick-freeze deep-etch rotary-shadowed replica of an early endosome with two clathrin-coated evaginations. Presumably these coated pits contain receptors for cargo that will be pinched off from the ea...

This freeze fracture view of the pellicle of V. microstoma near the aboral end of the zooid shows the region where the width of each circumferential alveolus is narrower and thus the strings of fractu...

Acidosomes originate from the biosynthetic pathway that includes the ER, the Golgi stack and the trans-Golgi network (TGN). Flattened vesicles from the TGN round up into spherical vesicles and bind to...

High resolution image of quick-freeze deep-etch of the P-face of the contractile vacuole. This face has many IMPs that are presumably transmembrane proteins many of which have been pulled free of the ...