A high magnification view of the intimate docking of acidosomes with the phagosome is particularly apparent where the P-face of the acidosome lies against the E-face of the phagosome. Numerous large I...

Larger vesicles contain paracrystalline cores that are associated at one end with the trichocyst membrane. This may mean that there is a site on the membrane that promotes paracrystalline formation or...

Higher magnification of acidosomes docked at the nascent digestive vacuole membrane. The E-fracture face is relatively IMP free while the P-fracture face has many large IMPs as well as some sizable pi...

Higher magnification of acidosomes docked at the nascent digestive vacuole membrane. The E-fracture face is relatively IMP free while the P-fracture face has many large IMPs as well as some sizable pi...

Details of the binding of the carrier vesicle to a microtubule. Four bridges, thought to be cytoplasmic dynein arms, span the 40nm space between these two structures. The membrane of the vesicle has b...

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...

Details of the binding of the carrier vesicle to a microtubule. Four bridges, thought to be cytoplasmic dynein arms, span the 40nm space between these two structures. The membrane of the vesicle has b...

Toxicysts, extrusive organelles, (sometimes called extrusomes in protistan lingo) in the proter (or anterior daughter) of a dividing cell. Toxicysts can be very long and are aligned along microtubular...

High resolution image of toxicysts, extrusive organelles, (sometimes called extrusomes in protistan lingo) in the proter (or anterior daughter) of a dividing cell. Toxicysts can be very long and are a...

The nascent phagosome membrane has a dense coat of acidosomes docked at its cytosolic surface well before the nascent vacuole pinches off the cytopharynx. This micrograph is a quick-freeze deep-etch i...