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CIL:7661*  Cite 
Description

Movie comprised of 5 sequential clips showing the three-dimensional details of cone pedicle mitochondria generated using electron tomography. Pedicles averaged five medium-sized mitochondria clustered far from the active zones. Clip 1: A rapid sequence through 171 2.2 nm-thick slices of the tomographic volume of a cone pedicle shown in the upper portion and sitting on a rod spherule. Clip2: Segmentation of the largest mitochondrion overlaid on the volume. All 177 cristae of various colors are shown inside the outer membrane made translucent to visualize the cristae. Clip3: Rotation of the side view of the segmented volume. About 15% of the volume is occupied by cristae. Clip4: Rotation showing only 10 cristae to emphasize the variety in shapes and sizes. Most of the cristae are tubular. However, some cristae possess lamellar compartments. Clip5: Rotation of the side view of the inner membrane of the segmented volume displayed with left lighting. Crista junction openings are invariably narrow and rather uniform in diameter. Two of the crista junction openings are labeled for reference. Mitochondria in spherules and pedicles differ markedly in their number, cellular location, volume, cristae surface area and volume, and crista junction diameter indicating that ATP demand and mitochondrial ATP production are greater in pedicles than spherules. The term 'crista junction' was first used in 1997 by Perkins, et al. The term describes the narrow, tubular cristae openings to the intermembrane space observed previously by Carmen Mannella and afterwards by numerous researchers that changed the paradigm of cristae architecture. Crista junctions have been found in all healthy mitochondria that have been examined to date. They have been studied in numerous species, including mammals, birds and lower eukaryotes, such as yeast and neurospora crassa. A number of perturbations, e.g. osmotic swelling, blocking protein import into mitochondria, or certain disease models, have been shown to eliminate crista junctions. Functionally, crista junctions play a role in the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria during apoptosis. In addition, it has been proposed that they regulate the distribution of proteins, lipids and soluble metabolites between mitochondrial subcompartments. Electron tomography on a 400 kV electron microscope was used to generate the pedicle volumes. The program Analyze allowed for volume visualization. Volume segmentation was performed using Xvoxtrace. The movie was created with Amira.

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Mus musculus
Cell Line
Cone pedicle
Mitochondrial crista
Cellular Component
mitochondrion
rod spherule
Attribution
Names
Guy A. Perkins
Patrick H. Poquiz
Mark H. Ellisman
Donald A. Fox
Pubmed
16120425
Pubmed
12540825
Pubmed
17653034
Pubmed
9441927
Pubmed
18620004
Pubmed
12632036
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL7661
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil7661
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Imaging
Image Type
recorded image
portrayed image
computer graphic
Image Mode
transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
tomogram
Parameters Imaged
electron density
Source of Contrast
differences in adsorption or binding of stain
Visualization Methods
lead salt
Processing History
Xvoxtrace
Amira
Dimensions
Spatial Axis Image Size Pixel Size
X 448px 0.19nm
Y 500px 0.19nm
Z —— 2.2nm