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Science 19 May 1972:
Vol. 176. no. 4036, pp. 808 - 809
DOI: 10.1126/science.176.4036.808
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Reversible Inhibition of Chloroplast Movement by Cytochalasin B in the Green Alga Mougeofia

Gottfried Wagner 1, Wolfgang Haupt 1, and Anneliese Laux 1

1 Botanisches Institut der Universitt Erlangen-Nürnberg, 852 Erlangen, Germany

Light-oriented chloroplast movement is reversibly inhibited by cytochalasin B. The photoperception is not influenced by this inhibitor. These results support the assumption that contractile protein fibrils are essential for this intracellular movement.


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