Abstract

I have been working on the effects of Cytochalasin D (and other anti-actin agents) on mitosis in crane fly spermatocytes -- a cell from animals I rear. These cells have very favourable cytology, and students and I have studied phalloidin staining in them at selected stages. I have stained spindles in crane-fly spermatocytes with two different monoclonal Abs -- one to tyrosinated tubulin (Ab=YLl/2) and one to acetylated tubulin (Ab = 6-1 lB-I). The YL1/2 stains ALL MTs in the spindle, while the 6-l lB-I stains only the kinetochore-to-pole MTs, and of those the region near the KT does not stain. We have used this differential staining to show that during anaphase the MTs disassemble at the poles, not the Kinetochores. A question we cannot answer is this. We know that the acetylation is only of Kinetochore to pole MTs -- others do not stain. But is this a subset of kinetochore MTs that stain, or do all of them stain? My proposition is to look at this with the photo-oxidation technique - - and in fact this is a good test of the technique, because you would have to see some MTs labelled and others in the same spindle NOT be labelled. And those that are labelled would not be labelled near the kinetochore --only a few micrometres up from the kinetochore.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
Type
Biotechnology Resource Grants (P41)
Project #
5P41RR004050-08
Application #
5224698
Study Section
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
1996
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Publications

Funakoshi, Shunsuke; Miki, Kenji; Takaki, Tadashi et al. (2016) Enhanced engraftment, proliferation, and therapeutic potential in heart using optimized human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Sci Rep 6:19111
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Yin, Xinghua; Kidd, Grahame J; Ohno, Nobuhiko et al. (2016) Proteolipid protein-deficient myelin promotes axonal mitochondrial dysfunction via altered metabolic coupling. J Cell Biol 215:531-542
Zhao, Claire Y; Greenstein, Joseph L; Winslow, Raimond L (2016) Roles of phosphodiesterases in the regulation of the cardiac cyclic nucleotide cross-talk signaling network. J Mol Cell Cardiol 91:215-27
Rajagopal, Vijay; Bass, Gregory; Walker, Cameron G et al. (2015) Examination of the Effects of Heterogeneous Organization of RyR Clusters, Myofibrils and Mitochondria on Ca2+ Release Patterns in Cardiomyocytes. PLoS Comput Biol 11:e1004417
Schachtrup, Christian; Ryu, Jae Kyu; Mammadzada, Könül et al. (2015) Nuclear pore complex remodeling by p75(NTR) cleavage controls TGF-? signaling and astrocyte functions. Nat Neurosci 18:1077-80
Sanders, Matthew A; Madoux, Franck; Mladenovic, Ljiljana et al. (2015) Endogenous and Synthetic ABHD5 Ligands Regulate ABHD5-Perilipin Interactions and Lipolysis in Fat and Muscle. Cell Metab 22:851-60
Takeshima, Hiroshi; Hoshijima, Masahiko; Song, Long-Sheng (2015) Ca²? microdomains organized by junctophilins. Cell Calcium 58:349-56
Mills, Elizabeth A; Davis, Chung-ha O; Bushong, Eric A et al. (2015) Astrocytes phagocytose focal dystrophies from shortening myelin segments in the optic nerve of Xenopus laevis at metamorphosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112:10509-14
Kim, K-Y; Perkins, G A; Shim, M S et al. (2015) DRP1 inhibition rescues retinal ganglion cells and their axons by preserving mitochondrial integrity in a mouse model of glaucoma. Cell Death Dis 6:e1839

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