Daily Archives: September 25, 2017

Finding the crystal width pattern for perfluorodecyl iodide

I have felt there was a pattern to the width of the perfluorodecyl iodide crystals in the micrographs that I have for some time. Today I decided to measure just two sets of crystals from two different lysosomal structures from two different cells. The graph below shows that there might be a stepwise increase to the thickness of the crystals of something on the order of 18-20nm (or maybe half that). The data from 4-8 measurements along the wide-axis of individual crystals were measured and normalized to the 27nm size of an adjacent ribosome. The mean widths sorted in ascending array and the second plot measured identically (had a few more crystals to measure) is superimposed. The red rectangles might indicate an incremental increase in size. Just thinking on this. I did find a couple of publications on “incremental pattern mining” which would be fun to examine.  Hopefully I will find someone with software already in place to do this. The actual micrographs and positions of measurement are shown below.  Red dots=27nm a presumed size for a mammalian ribosome, in each micrograph. Dont miss the lysosomal protein “snake-like protein with dark central stripe” mentioned in previous which is very clear in the top portion of the top electron micrograph. In this micrograph the values are 18-20 and 9-10 nm respectively for the two-band protein (similarly to previous post HERE).