CYTOKINESIS - CLEAVAGE FURROW ESTABLISHMENT IN CYLINDRICAL SAND DOLLAR EGGS
CYTOKINESIS - CLEAVAGE FURROW ESTABLISHMENT IN CYLINDRICAL SAND DOLLAR EGGS
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DOI:
10.1002/jez.1402170307
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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RAPPAPORT, R
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RAPPAPORT, R
By confining fertilized, denuded sand dollar (E. parma) eggs in short lengths of capillary tubing so that they were reshaped into elongate cylinders, it was possible to control the orientation of the mitotic apparatus and the subsequent cleavage furrow and the distance from the mitotic apparatus to the cylindrical cell surface. The technique left the polar regions accessible to experimentation and was used before 1st and 2nd cleavages. The time when the equatorial surface becomes capable of forming a complete, permanent furrow which can function independently of the mitotic apparatus was determined by aspirating the mitotic apparatus from 1 of a pair of cylindrical cells at 2nd cleavage and timing the interval between the operation and the appearance of the furrow in the control cell. When the mitotic apparatus is removed 4 min or less before control furrowing, the operated cell cleaves, but when the same operation is accomplished 5 min or more before control division, furrows do not appear in the operated cell. The necessary interaction between the mitotic apparatus and the surface probably is not completed until 4 min before the furrow initiates function; thereafter the mitotic apparatus is dispensable. The distance between astral centers and the extent of their radiate structure continue growing after the furrow position is established. Experiments performed before the mitotic apparatus becomes dispensible, during the period of its interaction with the surface, revealed that agitation of the poles by vibration and repeated manipulation did not interfere with division when imposed continuously until the furrow appeared. Changing the shape of the poles did not affect cleavage; neither did aspiration of polar cytoplasm and polar portions of asters before both 1st and 2nd cleavage. Cleavage also occurred despite sequestration of the polar portions of both asters in large-bore pipettes. Repeated skewering of the mitotic apparatus along the length of its midline often altered its appearance but did not prevent division.