Microtubule dynamics in mitotic spindle displayed by polarized light microscopy
Microtubule dynamics in mitotic spindle displayed by polarized light microscopy
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DOI:
10.1091/mbc.9.7.1603
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发表时间:
1998-07-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Oldenbourg, R
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作者:
Inoué, S;Oldenbourg, R
The first sequence shows an endosperm cell from the African blood lily, Haemanthus katherinae, undergoing mitosis (Figure 1). This sequence, captured by AS Bajer and J. Molé-Bajer using phase-contrast microscopy, was observed in cells that had been flattened between a layer of agar and gelatin to improve their visibility (Bajer and Mole-Bajer, 1956, 1986). The sequence vividly displays the chromosomes as they condense and align on the metaphase plate (Figure 1b). In the meantime the three large, dark nucleoli (Figure 1a) disappear. Then the chromosomes split and move apart in anaphase (Figure 1c). Finally the chromosomes become decondensed as they are packaged into two daughter nuclei in telophase (Figure 1d). Between the nuclei, small dancing vesicles appear (Figure 1c), align, and fuse with each other to form the cell plate (Figure 1d). The cell plate eventually gives rise to the cell walls and separates the plant cell into two. In the next sequence, we see the pollen mother cell of an Easter lily, Lilium longiflorum, undergoing mitosis and cell division (Figure 2). These cells synchronously undergo the first of their two divisions to form four pollen grains when the flower bud is exactly 22.4 mm long (Figure 3). A bud of this length was collected and centrifuged at 1800 g for 3 min to displace the highly light-scattering granules and to make the other contents of the cell more visible. After excising an anther from the centrifuged flower bud in seveneighths-strength frog Ringer’s solution, the cells were observed between crossed polarizers in the presence of a compensator (Figure 4). Observed with a polarizing microscope in this manner, regions of the cell