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  • 1
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: chondrocytes ; matrix vesicle formation ; actin ; tubulin ; myosin ; vinculin ; alkaline phosphatase ; immunofluorescence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Matrix vesicles, extracellular microstructures known to eb involved in endochondral calcification, are rich in alkaline phosphatase and have been shown to contain actin. The mechanism of matrix vesicle formation in chondrocytes in not well understood. Chondrocytes from the epiphyseal growth plate, when grown in primary culture, elaborate alkaline phosphatase-rich vesciles. We examined the distribution of the cytoskeletal proteins actin, myosin, tubulin, and vinculin at various time-points during culture using indirect immunofluorescent labeling. Concomitantly, the production of alkaline phosphatase-containing matrix vesicles was also followed. Cell morphology changed noticeably at two distinct stages during the 22-day culture period: Immediately after release from the growth plate the cells were founded, but after 4 days of cultre they began to spread out and acquire irregular shapes with distinct filopodia. By 13 datsm as tge cekks attaubed confluency, they reacquired a rounded, polygonal appearance. At all time-point, tubulin was seen as a dense network of microtubules radiating from the perinuclear region throughout the cytoplasm toward the cell periphery. Initially actin was seen in filamentous from, but displayed a punctate distribution focused at contact points during the cell-spreading stage of culture. After confluency, actin was concentrated at cell-cell junctions. Initially, vinculin was diffusely distributed, but became focused in multiple adhesion plaques and at the termini of filpodia during the cell-spreading stage of culture. Following confluency vinculin became concentrated at cell-cell junctions. Myosin was observed at all time-points in small, intensely localized focal points in the cytoplasmic region of the cells and was consistently absent from the nuclear and peripheral regions. The amount of myosin in the cells increased steadily with time in culture. Elaboration of alkaline phosphatase-rich vesicles, which corresponded closely with the rounded morphology of early and late stages of culture, may be correlated with contact inhibition.
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  • 2
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 17 (1990), S. 167-173 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: microtubule disassembly ; tubulin-binding sites ; protein concentration ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The concentration of estramustine phosphate required to inhibit the assembly or to induce the disassembly of chick brain MAP2:tubulin microtubules is markedly dependent upon the microtubule protein concentration. Analysis of this relationship shows that estramustine phosphate and tubulin compete for common MAP2 sites, that MAP2 can bind 5-6 moles-mole-1 estramustine phosphate, and that the Kd of these sites is ≏ 20 μM estramustine phosphate. It is proposed that two molecules of estramustine phosphate interact with each of the three tubulin-binding sites of MAP2 and inhibit the MAP2:tubulin interaction by neutralising two highly conserved basic residues.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 20 (1991), S. 181-189 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: α-tubulin ; β-tubulin ; γ-tubulin ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Comparison of ≏ 160 α-, β-, and γ-tubulins, and excluding the highly divergent C-terminal peptide, indicates that the three subclasses have similar tertiary structures. Conserved sequences within or between the subclasses have been identified, together with the locations of known epitopes, chemical modifications, and mutations. Evidence is also reviewed concerning the identity of the GTP-binding sites, about which residues are exposed in the assembled microtubule and at subunit:subunit interfaces. These characteristics constrain the possible tertiary structure of the tubulin subunit.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 23 (1992), S. 89-101 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: division polarity ; F-actin ; microtubules ; plastids ; preprophase band ; stomata ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Stomatogenesis, the determinate developmental pathway leading to formation of a pair of specialized guard cells, was studied in monoplastidic cells ofSelaginella. Observations of living cells followed by immunofluorescence microscopy of the same cells made it possible to correlate changes in cytoskeletal organization with developmental events. The guard mother cell divides in a plane perpendicular to previous divisions and this shift in polarity is marked by morphogenetic plastid migration, as well as by extensive reorganization of cytoskeletal arrays. The single plastid divides and daughter plastids move to a position opposite each other (incipient spindle poles). The axis defined by the opposing plastids rotates in the cell before becoming fixed in position with polar plastids adjacent to the lateral anticlinal walls. Plastid polarity predicts spindle orientation and the plane of division. Once division polarity is defined by plastid position, which will remain unchanged throughout mitosis and cytokinesis, cortical microtubules become reorganized from radial to longitudinal (relative to the long axis of the leaf). The initially random cortical F-actin also becomes aligned longitudinally. A wide preprophase band of microtubules and F-actin is formed at right angles to the spindle axis. Plastid-based microtubules establish the preprophase spindle and also connect to the preprophase band. The mitotic spindle remains anchored at the polar plastids. After mitosis, a phragmoplast that forms among microtubules emanating from plastids and nuclei develops in the plane marked previously by the preprophase band. Mitosis is completed in 1 h 15 min ± 3 min (mean ± S.E.). © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 22 (1992), S. 72-77 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: bryophytes ; microtubules ; MTOC ; plastids ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Archesporial cells of the hepatic Monoclea gottschei Lindb. undergo a series of monoplastidic mitotic divisions prior to enlarging into sporocytes. Interphase cells have a nuclear-based endoplasmic microtubule system that is predominantly aligned in the long axis of the cell and lack a hoop-like cortical system. No preprophase bands (PPBs) are formed. Prior to mitosis, the single plastid divides and daughter plastids move to the incipient spindle poles as is typical of monoplastidic cell division. However, the plastids do not serve as microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) as they do in both mitosis and meiosis of hornworts and lycopsids, and in meiosis of mosses. Rather, microtubules of the developing spindle emanate from distinct polar organizers (POs) arising just outside the nuclear envelope as in polyplastidic mitosis in other hepatics. The POs, which appear to arise de novo on opposite ends of the nucleus during preprophase, consist of vesicles, endoplasmic reticulum, and radiating microtubules. The developmental and evolutionary significance of distinct POs, plastid MTOCs, and the diffuse MTOCs of higher plants is discussed. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 31 (1995), S. 255-258 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 3 (1983), S. 93-103 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: bacterial motility ; flagella ; sheathed flagella ; complex flagella ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Although bacterial flagellar sheaths were observed over 30 years ago, they may still be characterized as structures in search of a function. In addition to true sheaths, bacterial flagella may possess other adornments that cause an increase in the organelle's cross-sectional diameter. These “complex flagella” are sharply differentiated from sheathed flagella. Immunological and chemical distinctions have been found between flagellar sheaths, flagellar cores, and LPS layers inferred to be the sheath sensu stricto. Although complex flagella may serve as specific receptors for flagellotropic phages or in allowing for more efficient swimming in viscous environments, similar functions have not yet been attributed to true sheaths. It is postulated that flagellar sheaths may allow for specific interaction between a bacterium and a surface. In addition, there is a problem as to the relationship between a rapidly rotating flagellum and the sheath.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 11 (1988), S. 139-146 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: phragmoplast ; sporogenesis ; indirect immunofluorescence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Studies of the microtubular cytoskeleton during sporogenesis in the hepatic Conocephalum conicum (Bryophyta) have revealed several unusual phenomena that contribute to understanding the cytokinetic apparatus in plant cell division. Although a typical phragmoplast forms in the interzonal microtubules of the first division spindle and expands to the cell periphery, no cell plate develops. There is no evidence of predetermined division sites and the orientation of both first and second meiotic spindles is imprecise. Simultaneous division of the cytoplasm follows second nuclear division. Equal apportionment of the cytoplasm appears to be a function of the establishment of cytoplasmic domains in the coenocyte, the boundaries of which are delimited by interaction of postmeiotic microtubule systems radiating from the four nuclei. Primary phragmoplasts are initiated in phragmoplasts that are initiated between nonsister nuclei. Depending upon the arrangement of nuclei in the nonpolar sporocyte, from one to three secondary phragmoplasts develop in the zones of contact between opposing sets of microtubules. Except for the site and time of initiation, the two types of phragmoplasts are identical. Eventually the phragmoplasts become confluent and cell plates form in all second division phragmoplasts. It is clear that typical functional phragmoplasts can form in sites determined by interaction of postmeiotic microtubule systems as well as in interzonal spindles as is common in plant cell division.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 20 (1991), S. 30-37 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: chick brain ; α-isotypes ; tyrosine ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The tyrosinylation of chick brain α-tubulin and the effects of the tyrosinylation status on the assembly and dynamic instability of chick brain MAP2:tubulin microtubule protein have been examined. Each of the eight major α-isotypes can be tyrosinylated in vitro, irrespective of whether a C-terminal tyrosine is genetically encoded. The extent of tyrosinylation is however limited to ≏ 0.3 mol.mol-1. The tyrosinylation status (0 vs. 0.3 mol.mol-1) has no effect on either the assembly kinetics of chick brain microtubule protein or on the rate of length redistribution following assembly and shearing. It is therefore unlikely that the tyrosinylation status directly affects the intrinsic stability of assembled microtu-bules since the rate of length redistribution is both a sensitive assay and a function of the kinetic parameters governing dynamic instability.
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    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Our laboratory has recently demonstrated that 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3(1,25(OH)2D3) rapidly stimulated membrane polyphosphoinositide breakdown and increased intracellular calcium, as well as activated protein kinase C (PKC) in vitamin D-sufficient rat colonocytes. These effects of 1,25(OH)2D3 were, however, lost in vitamin D-insufficient rats and restored by the in vivo repletion of 1,25(OH)2D3. In the present studies we have examined the ability of 1,25(OH)2D3 to stimulate the phosphorylation of colonic membrane proteins in intact D-sufficient cells. In addition, we investigated the effects of vitamin D status on the phosphorylation of these membrane proteins in broken cell preparations. These studies demonstrated that 1,25(OH)2D3 increased the phosphorylation of at least two colonic membrane proteins with apparent molecular weights of 42,000 (pp42) and 48,000 (pp48) in intact cells of vitamin D-sufficient rats. Moreover, in vitamin D-sufficient rats, treatment of colonocytes with 1,25(OH)2D3 or 12-Otertradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate (TPA), a known activator of PKC, significantly increased the phosphorylation of pp42 and pp48 in broken cell preparations. The kinetics of these phosphorylations in response to 1,25(OH)2D3 were both rapid and transient. In addition, PKC19-36, a specific PKC inhibitor, decreased the phosphorylation of pp42 and pp48, whereas okadaic acid (OA), a type 1 and 2A protein phosphatase inhibitor, further augmented their phosphorylation in response to 1,25(OH)2D3. The isoelectric points of pp42 and pp48 were 5.79 and 5.97, respectively, and both were predominantly phosphorylated on threonine residues. In contrast to our findings in colonocytes from vitamin D-sufficient animals, basal phosphorylation of pp42 and pp48 were increased in membranes prepared from vitamin D-insufficient rats. Moreover, these phosphorylations failed to change in response to 1,25(OH)2D3-treatment of colonocytes from vitamin D-insufficient rats. The basal phosphorylation of each of these proteins was restored to control levels, as was their ability to respond to the direct addition of 1,25(OH)2D3 following the in vivo repletion of vitamin D-insufficient rats with this secosteroid. In summary, we have identified two acidic membrane proteins from rat colonocytes that are phosphorylated in both intact and broken cell preparations in response to 1,25(OH)2D3 treatment, an event modulated by vitamin D status and mediated, at least in part, by PKC. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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