The disassembly and reassembly of functional centrosomes in vitro.
The disassembly and reassembly of functional centrosomes in vitro.
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功能中心体的体外拆卸和重组。
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.95.16.9295
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Palazzo,RE
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文献类型:
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作者:
Schnackenberg,BJ;Khodjakov,A;Rieder,CL;Palazzo,RE
Animal cells contain a single centrosome that nucleates and organizes a polarized array of microtubules which functions in many cellular processes. In most cells the centrosome is composed of two centrioles surrounded by an ill-defined “cloud” of pericentriolar material. Recently, γ-tubulin-containing 25-nm diameter ring structures have been identified as likely microtubule nucleation sites within the pericentriolar material of isolated centrosomes. Here we demonstrate that whenSpisulacentrosomes are extracted with 1.0 M KI they lose their microtubule nucleation potential and appear by three-dimensional electron microscopy as a complex lattice, built from 12- to 15-nm thick elementary fiber(s), that lack centrioles and 25-nm rings. Importantly, when these remnants are incubated in extracts prepared fromSpisulaoocytes they recover their 25-nm rings, γ-tubulin, and microtubule nucleation potential. This recovery process occurs in the absence of microtubules, divalent cations, and nucleotides. Thus, in animals the centrosome is structurally organized around a KI-insoluble filament-based “centromatrix” that serves as a scaffold to which those proteins required for microtubule nucleation bind, either directly or indirectly, in a divalent cation and nucleotide independent manner.