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Central spindle self-organization and cytokinesis in artificially activated sea urchin eggs
Authors
Mary W. Buckley
John H. Henson
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Charles B. Shuster
Calvin R. Simerly
Richard M. Weeks
Mesrob Yeterian
Publication date
1 April 2016
Publisher
Marine Biological Laboratory
Abstract
Author Posting. © Marine Biological Laboratory, 2016. This article is posted here by permission of Marine Biological Laboratory for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Biological Bulletin 230, no.2 (2016): 85-95.The ability of microtubules of the mitotic apparatus to control the positioning and initiation of the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis was first established from studies on early echinoderm embryos. However, the identity of the microtubule population that imparts cytokinetic signaling is unclear. The two main––and not necessarily mutually exclusive–– candidates are the central spindle and the astral rays. In the present study, we examined cytokinesis in ammonia-activated sea urchin eggs, which lack paternally derived centrosomes and undergo mitosis mediated by unusual anastral, bipolar mini-spindles. Live cell imaging and immunolabeling for microtubules and the centralspindlin constituent and kinesin-related protein, MKLP1, demonstrated that furrowing in ammonia-activated eggs was associated with aligned arrays of centralspindlin-linked, opposed bundles of antiparallel microtubules. These autonomous, zipper- like arrays were not associated with a mitotic apparatus, but did possess characteristics similar to the central spindle region of control, fertilized embryos. Our results highlight the self-organizing nature of the central spindle region and its ability to induce cytokinesis-like furrowing, even in the absence of a complete mitotic apparatus.This research was supported by student/faculty summer research grants from the Dickinson College Research and Development Committee to JHH; Laura and Arthur Colwin Summer Research Fellowships from the MBL to JHH and CBS; a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant to JHH (MRI-0320606); and a NSF collaborative research grant to JHH (MCB-1412688) and to CBS (MCB- 1412734)
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