Vondrejs V, Pavlícek I, Kothera M, Palková Z
Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1990 Jan 15;166(1):113-8. doi: 10.1016/0006-291x(90)91918-i.
The electrofusion of oriented Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells through apical protoplast-protuberances was demonstrated. The protuberances arose after an exposure of early-exponential phase cells to digestive enzymes from hepatopancreas of Helix pomatia. The orientation of cylindric cells within pearl chains was produced by the application of inhomogenous alternating electric fields.