Oral assembly in left-handed Tetrahymena thermophila.

We have investigated oral development in a non-genetically derived left-handed (LH) form of Tetrahymena thermophila, in which the large-scale asymmetry of arrangement of cortical structures is reversed whereas the local asymmetry of ciliary architecture remains normal. Approximately 1/2 of the oral apparatuses (OAs) of LH cells develop in the form of superficial mirror-images of OAs of RH cells. In most of these OAs, membranelles are assembled from the cells' anterior to posterior. Nonetheless, the posterior ends of these membranelles undergo the basal body displacements that lead to a "sculptured" appearance, so that the membranelles of LH OAs become organized as rotational permutations of membranelles of normal RH OAs. Many of these membranelles re-orient to a normal orientation near the end of oral development. Membranelles and undulating membranes (UMs) may develop independently of each other, and formation of postciliary microtubules of UMs is separate from that of ribbed wall microtubules. In some cases, the entire OA develops and remains as a 180 degrees rotational permutation of the normal, resembling the inverted OAs of mirror-image doublets and LH cells of Glaucoma scintillans described by Suhama. We present a model for these complex developmental outcomes. These developmental patterns resemble those described previously and less completely for "secondary" OAs of cells with mirror-image global patterns, including janus cells. The present study demonstrates that such alterations in oral development are not a direct outcome of genotypic changes.

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