title: Dispositions of junctional feet in muscles of invertebrates.
abstract: The structure and disposition of the feet occupying the junctions between sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and surface membrane/transverse tubules were studied in muscles from a variety of invertebrates. Feet were imaged by rotary shadowing of isolated junctional SR vesicles and by filtering of micrographs from grazing views of the junction in thin sections. The overall size and shape of invertebrate feet is the same as that of feet in skeletal and cardiac muscle of vertebrates. However, the arrangement of feet in invertebrate muscles differs from that in vertebrates. These findings are discussed in terms of known variations in properties of excitation-contraction coupling of the two phyla.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6058.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Loesser
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Castellani
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Franzini-Armstrong
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D003400:Astacoidea / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006110:Grasshoppers / Q000648:ultrastructure; D007313:Insecta / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008974:Mollusca / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011983:Receptors, Purinergic / Q000648:ultrastructure; D019837:Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel; D012508:Sarcolemma / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012605:Scorpions / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic; D011983:Receptors, Purinergic; D019837:Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel; D002118:Calcium