Title
Explaining the "Pulse of Protoplasm": the search for molecular mechanisms of protoplasmic streaming
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Publication Title
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
Department
Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract
Explanations for protoplasmic streaming began with appeals to contraction in the eighteenth century and ended with appeals to contraction in the twentieth. During the intervening years, biologists proposed a diverse array of mechanisms for streaming motions. This paper focuses on the re-emergence of contraction among the molecular mechanisms proposed for protoplasmic streaming during the twentieth century. The revival of contraction is a result of a broader transition from colloidal chemistry to a macromolecular approach to the chemistry of proteins, the recognition of the phenomena of shuttle streaming and the pulse of protoplasm, and the influential analogy between protoplasmic streaming and muscle contraction.
DOI
10.1111/jipb.12317
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Dietrich, Michael, "Explaining the "Pulse of Protoplasm": the search for molecular mechanisms of protoplasmic streaming" (2015). Dartmouth Scholarship. 4.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/4