Fig. 11

Depletion of Structural Groups causing changes in the length of the SRs. a Transmission electron micrographs of the negatively stained SRs from Control, Paralog Group-, or Structural Group-depleted cells. All panels show representative images from 60 SRs (20 per experiment, each done in triplicate). a the representative images of SRs from Control cells, those depleted of Paralog Groups 2–13, and those cells depleted of Structural Groups 1–5. The original images in Structural Groups 1–5 were reduced to match the scale bars for the images from Paralog Group-depleted cells. Scale bars are 0.5 μm. b The length comparison of isolated SRs. In the graph, each bar indicates the mean length with standard deviation of the SRs isolated from different groups. Asterisks indicate lengths of SRs from Structural Groups (1–5)-depleted cells are significantly (P value < 0.005; unpaired t-test) shorter than lengths from Control or Paralog Groups