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Revisiting the microtrabecular lattice
Author(s) -
Clegg James S.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
cell biology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.932
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1095-8355
pISSN - 1065-6995
DOI - 10.1042/cbi20100511
Subject(s) - lattice (music) , cytoplasm , physics , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , acoustics
The ‘microtrabecular lattice’ (MTL) that Keith Porter described in the 1970s and 1980s is reconsidered as a proposed fundamental cytoplasmic structure of eukaryotic cells. Although considered to be an artefact by most cell biologists of his time (and probably ours), the case is made that something like the MTL may well exist, but in a much more dynamic form than images from electron microscopy imply and convey.