CELL CLEAVAGE - ULTRASTRUCTURAL EVIDENCE AGAINST EQUATORIAL STIMULATION BY ASTER MICROTUBULES
CELL CLEAVAGE - ULTRASTRUCTURAL EVIDENCE AGAINST EQUATORIAL STIMULATION BY ASTER MICROTUBULES
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-4827(79)90309-4
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
SCHROEDER, TE
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作者:
ASNES, CF;SCHROEDER, TE
Cell cleavage is spatially and temporally corrdinated with karyokinesis. In astral division, as occurs in sea urchin eggs, coordination is accomplished by the mitotic asters. Microtubules of the 2 asters may cross at the cell''s equator. Because they cross, or by some other configuration, more microtubules may interact with the equatorial cortex than with the polar cortex. Microtubule component of astral rays may differentially stimulate the equatorial cortex for cleavage contraction. A fixation procedure which enhances visibility of microtubules showed that aster microtubules do not cross at the equatorial cortex at any stage of mitosis relevent to the cleavage stimulation. Aster microtubules extend progressively farther during anaphase, but the 2 arrays occupy mutually exclusive hemispheres in the egg. Using another fixation procedure which results in more conventional microtubule morphology, microtubules penetrating the cortex were systematically counted at both the equator and the poles in sections cut parallel and perpendicular to the axis of the mitotic apparatus, respectively, at all stages of mitosis. Microtubules in the cortex of the equator were not seen during prometaphase, metaphase, early anaphase or mid-anaphase. Small numbers of microtubules were observed in the polar cortex during this time. By late anaphase there are some microtubules in the equatorial cortex but many more are observed in the polar cortex. There is apparently no positive correlation between microtubule numbers at thc egg equator and the timing of cleavage stimulation. Coordination between karyokinesis and cell cleavage is achieved by a process other than the simple numerical increase of microtubules at the equatorial cortex.