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    Masthead (1987)
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987) 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Substructure of sidearms on squid axoplasmic vesicles and microtubules visualized by negative contrast electron microscopyPart of this work was performed at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543. (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 20-30 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: We present a high-resolution electron microscopic study of the sidearms on microtubules and vesicles that are suggested to form the crossbridges which produce the microtubule-based vesicle transport in squid axoplasm. The sidearms were found attached to the surfaces of the anterogradely transported vesicles in the presence of ATP. These sidearms were made of one to three filaments of uniform diameter. Each filament measured 5-6 nm in width and 30-35 nm in length. The filaments in some of the sidearms had splayed apart by pivoting at their base, thereby assuming a “V” shape. The spread configuration illustrated the independence of the individual filaments. The filaments in other sidearms were closely spaced and oriented parallel to each other, a pattern called the compact configuration. In axoplasmic buffer containing AMP-PNP, structures indistinguishable from the filaments of the sidearms on the vesicles were observed attached to microtubules. Pairs of filaments, thought to represent the basic functional unit, were observed attached to adjacent protofilaments of the microtubules by their distal tips. These data support a model of vesicle movement in which a pair of filaments within a sidearm forms two crossbridges and moves a vesicle by “walking” along the protofilaments of the microtubule.
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    Polymorphic assembly of subtilisin-cleaved tubulin (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 31-38 
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    Keywords: microtubule assembly ; proleolysis ; Vinca drugs ; Zn2+-induced assembly ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Limited proteolysis of tubulin with subtilisin results in cleavage of both the α and β subunits, releasing small peptides from the C-terminal ends. At 37°C the digested tubulin assembles into polymorphic structures: microtubules with attached ribbons in the presence of GTP, rings in the presence of GDP, and protofilament spirals in the presence of vinblastine. Undigested tubulin does not assemble under these conditions. Rings and Vinca-induced spiral structures are assembled from undigested tubulin only when microtubule-associated proteins, high Mg2+ concentrations, or polycations are present. Thus, cleavage with subtilisin affects assembly in a manner similar to the addition of these agents. It appears that binding of positively charged substances may act by neutralizing the charge on the highly acidic C-terminal regions of the α- and β-subunits, while cleavage with subtilisin produces the same effect by removing these peptides. Undigested and subtilisin-digested tubulin form sheets of protofilaments in the presence of Zn2+, which indicates that the binding sites for the 2-3 Zn2+ ions necessary to induce sheet formation do not reside in the C-terminal regions of the monomers.
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    Wave of cortical actin polymerization in the sea urchin egg (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 46-53 
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    Keywords: actin filament ; fertilization ; fluorescent labeled phallotoxins ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: The distribution of actin filaments in the cortical layer of sea urchin eggs during fertilization has been investigated by light microscopy using fluorescently labeled phallotoxins. The cortical layer of both whole eggs and cortices isolated on a glass surface was examined. In cortices of unfertilized eggs, numerous fluorescent spots were seen, which may correspond to short actin filament cores in microvilli. After insemination, one of the sperm-attaching points on the egg surface first became strongly fluorescent. This fluorescence grew around the point of sperm penetration with the growth of the fertilization cone. Then, the cortical layer of the egg around the fertilization cone became strongly fluorescent and the fluorescence propagated in a wavelike manner over the entire cortex. The mechanism of the propagation of actin polymerization is discussed.
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    Comparison of the beating of cis- and trans-flagella of Chlamydomonas cells held on micropipettes (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 87-93 
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    Keywords: movement ; flagellar ; beat, flagellar ; stigma ; high-speed microcinematography ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Chlamydomonas cells sucked onto micropipettes were filmed at 500 frames/sec and analyzed as to their forward beating mode. A comparison with freely swimming cells revealed that the flagella of the sucked cells beat in a normal threedimensional manner, with beat frequencies that correspond to those of freely swimming cells. Most beats were synchronous. but not symmetrical; cis- and trans-flagellum appear to beat in a slightly different manner. Some cells beat synchronously throughout, but mostly synchrony was interrupted by a single asynchrony or up to incessant asynchronies, caused by transient accelerations of the trans- (fo-) flagellum. Only rarely did cis- and trans-flagella have different but constant beat frequencies. Helical swimming of Chlamydomonas more likely is due to the beat asymmetries of the two flagella than to differences of beat frequencies. In our records, the stigma is on the inside of the helical swimming path.
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    A unique tubulin antibody which disrupts particle movement in squid axoplasm (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 110-115 
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    Keywords: microtubules ; antitubulin ; particle translocalion ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Microtubules have been demonstrated to be a substrate for organelle transport and particle translocation in vitro and in vivo. Subsequent to a previous report of inhibition of axonal transport of exogenous tracers in vivo using antiserum NS-20 against tubulin (Johnston et al: Brain Res. 1986), we now show disruption of particle movement in extruded squid axoplnsm using this unique immunological probe. Using video-enhanced contract-differential interference contrast (AVEC-DIC) microscopy, we examined the properties of particle movement along microtubules and demonstrated that bolh the velocity of particle movement and the numbers of particles moving are decreased in the presence of NS-20 antiserum or NS-20 affinity-purified antibodies but. not in the presence of another antiserum against tubulin. The amount of microtubule substrate does not change in the presence of any of the antisera. In conclusion, we suggest that NS-20 antibodies bind near or at a site on the tubulin molecule which is critical in the mechanism of particle transport, and provide a direct immunological probe to examine the mechanism of microtubule involvement in axonal transport.
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    Massive actin bundle couples macrocilia to muscles in the ctenophore Beroë (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 116-128 
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    Keywords: actin filament bundle ; macrociliary cell ; Clenophores ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Macrocilia are thick compound ciliary organlles arising individually from elongated epithelial cells on the lips of beroid ctenophores. A giant wedge-shaped bundle of microfilaments extends 25-30 μm from the base of each macrocilium to the lower end of the cell, terminating at a junction with an underlying smooth muscle cell. The broad end of the microfilament bundle is anchored to the macrocilium by striated rootlet fibers that extend from the basal bodies into the bundle and are linked to the microfilaments by periodic bridges. Fluorescence microscopy of rhodamine-phalloidin stained intact tissue, dissociated macrociliary cells, and Triton/glycerol-isolated bundles shows that the microfilaments contain actin. The microfilaments run generally parallel to the long axis of the bundle but are not highly ordered. Filaments decorated with myosin S1 show a uniform polarity with arrowheads pointing away from the tapered membrane-associated end of the bundle. No variations in bundle length (nor changes in rootlet periodicity) were observed in tissue fixed under conditions of calcium activation. Isolated bundles did not contract in Mg-ATP, even though detached macrocilia underwent reactivated beating and sliding disintegration. Macrocilia arc used to bite through food organisms or transport prey into the stomach. The actin filament bundles probably play a supporting role as a structural linker between macrocilia and subepithelial muscle fibers and may serve as intracellular tendons lo mechanically coordinate the motor activities of macrocilia and muscles during prey ingestion.
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    Translational control and the cytoskeleton in Physarum polycephalum (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 129-137 
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    Keywords: actin mRNA ; sclerotium ; polysomes ; Triton X-100 extraction ; cycloheximide ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Translationally active plasmodia of the syncytial slime mold Physarum polycephalum develop into translationally dormant sclerotia during starvation. Although functional mRNA and ribosomes exist in sclerotia, protein synthesis is suppressed at the level of initiation. To test the possibility that alterations in the cytoskeleton may limit protein synthesis, we have examined the distribution of polysomes and actin mRNA in the cytoskeletal (CSK) and soluble (SOL) fractions of Triton X-100-extracted plasmodia and sclerotia. Most of the polysomes and actin mRNA were located in the CSK of plasmodia, while most of the ribosomes and actin mRNA were located in the SOL of sclerotia. The results suggest that ribosomes and mRNA shift from the CSK to the SOL as protein synthesis is suppressed during starvation. Plasmodia and sclerotia can be induced to accumulate excess polysomes by treatment with low levels of the elongation inhibitor cycloheximide. Treatment of plasmodia with cycloheximide caused excess polysomes to accumulate in the SOL, suggesting that the CSK contains a limited capacity for binding translational components and that the association of polysomes with the cytoskeleton is not required for protein synthesis. Treatment of sclerotia with cycloheximide, however, caused polysomes and actin mRNA to accumulate in the CSK, suggesting that the selcrotial cytoskeleton, although depleted in ribosomes and mRNA, is capable of binding translational components. It is concluded that alterations in the sclerotial cytoskeleton are not involved in translational control.
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    cAMP-mediated inhibitory effect of calmodulin antagonists on ciliary reversal of ParameciumA part of this work was presented as a poster session at the 3rd International Congress on Cell Biology, Tokyo, 1984. (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 154-159 
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    Keywords: calcium ; protein phosphorylation ; TFP ; Triton-extracted model ; ciliary orientation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: To explore possible roles of calmodulin in Ca2+-induced ciliary reversal, we tested the effects of calmodulin antagonists on Triton-extracted models of Paramecium. In the extracted models prepared by the method of Naitoh and Kaneko [Science 176:523-524, 1972], the Ca2+ -induced ciliary reversal was not inhibited by calmodulin antagonists, trifluoperazine (TFP), or 5-chloro-l-naphthalenesulphone amide (W-7). However, in the presence of adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic mono-phosphate (cAMP), whose concentration is below the one that alters the ciliary direction, TFP inhibited ciliary reversal and the models swam forward at 10-5 M Ca2+. When the washing medium in the preparation of the extracted models was replaced with one containing MgCl2, the extracted model showed sensitivity to calmodulin antagonists without addition of cAMP; at 10-5 M Ca2+, 40 μM TFP or 100 μM W-7 inhibited the ciliary reversal and the models swam forward. Such effect of antagonists was abolished by an inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. On the other hand, addition of cAMP enhanced the inhibitory effect of antagonists. These results suggest that calmodulin antagonists act to increase the extent of cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation that inhibits the Ca2+ -induced ciliary reversal.
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    Masthead (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987) 
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    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Reversible inhibition of microtubuies and cell growth by the bicyclic colchicine analogue MTC (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 178-186 
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    Keywords: colchicine binding ; tubulin ; immunofluorescence ; PtK2 ; Pk15 ; SV-3T3 cells ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: 2-methoxy-5-(2,3,4-trimethoxyphenyl) 2,4,6-cycloheptatrien-1-one (MTC) is a synthetic colchicine analogue, lacking the B ring of the alkaloid (Fitzgerald: Biochem. Pharmacol. 25:1381-1387, 1976). MTC has been shown to bind reversibly to the colchicine binding site of tubulin and to inhibit microtubule assembly in vitro (Andreu et al: Biochemistry 23:1742-1752, 1984; Bane et al: J. Biol. Chem. 259:7391-7398, 1984). Its action on different cultured cell lines (PtK2, Pk15, and SV-3T3) has now been studied. 0.2 × 10-6 M MTC stopped Pkl5 and SV-3T3 cell growth, inducing an accumulation of mitoses in a few hours. Removal of MTC from the culture medium rapidly restored normal mitotic index and growth rates. Partial depolymerization of the cytoplasmic microtubules of PtK2 cells was observed at concentrations ranging from 2 to 5 × 10-7 M. Maximal microtubule network depolymerization was obtained after 4 h of treatment with 2 to 5 × 10-6 M MTC or at a higher MTC concentration (2 × 10-5 M) for less than 2 h. Removal of 2 × 10-5 M MTC (the highest MTC concentration used) from the culture medium resulted in almost complete microtubule polymerization after 10 min of drug recovery and a normal microtubule network in 20-30 min.MTC constitutes an antimitotic drug directed to the colchicine site. It is water-soluble, shows a fast and reversible action, and may therefore be employed as a convenient tool to study cellular microtubule-dependent functions.
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    Structural and chemical characterization of isolated centrosomes (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 238-249 
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    Keywords: human lymphoblastoma cells ; microtubule organizing centers ; isolation centrioles ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: A procedure adapted from that described by Mitchison and Kirschner [Nature 312:232-237, 1984] was used to isolate centrosomes from human lymphoid cells. High yields of homogeneous centrosomes (60% of the theoretical total, assuming one centrosome per cell) were obtained. Centrosomes were isolated as pairs of centrioles, plus their associated pericentriolar material. Ultrastructural investigation revealed: 1) a link between both centrioles in a centrosome formed by the gathering in of a unique bundle of thin filaments surrounding each centriole; 2) a stereotypic organization of the pericentriolar material, including a rim of constant width at the proximal end of each centriole and a disc of nine satellite arms organized according to a ninefold symmetry at the distal end and; 3) an axial hub in the lumen of each centriole at the distal end surrounded by some ill-defined material.The total protein content was 2 to 3 × 10-2 pg per isolated centrosome, a figure that suggests that the preparations were close to homogeneity. The protein composition was complex but specific, showing proteins ranging from 180 to 300 kD, one prominent band at 130 kD, and a group of proteins between 50 and 65 kD. Actin was also present in centrosome preparations.Functional studies demonstrated that the isolated centrosomes were competent to nucleate microtubules in vitro from purified tubulin in conditions in which spontaneous assembly could not occur. They were also very effective at inducing cleavage when microinjected into unfertilized Xenopus eggs.
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    Association of intermediate filaments with vinculin-containing adhesion plaques of fibroblasts (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 274-283 
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    Keywords: focal contacts ; vimentin filaments ; microtubules ; immunofluorescence ; platinum replicas ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
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    Notes: Double immunofluorescence staining of quail embryo fibroblasts with rabbit antibody to vinculin and mouse monoclonal antibody to vimentin revealed a coincidence between fluorescence patterns for cell-substrate focal contacts and intermediate filaments. Most of the vinculin-containing adhesion plaques coincided with the ends of vimentin-positive fibrils.This association was further corroborated by immunoelection microscopic observations of the cytoskeletons of quail and mouse fibroblasts using a platinum replica technique. The intermediate filaments were identified either by direct treatment with antivimentin IgM or by an indirect immunogold staining method.Colcemid treatment of the cells caused a collapse of intermediate filaments and destroyed their association with focal contacts. During the early stages of the colcemid-induced collapse of the intermediate filaments, single vimentin fibrils appeared to retain their association with focal contacts.The possible role of the intermediate filaments in the formation and maintenance of focal contacts is discussed.
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    Acetylated and detyrosinated α-tubulins are co-localized in stable microtubules in rat meningeal fibroblasts (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 284-291 
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    Keywords: tyrosination ; acetylation ; post-translational modifications ; cytoskeleton ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We have examined the distribution of acetylated α-tubulin using immunofluorescence microscopy in fibroblastic cells of rat brain meaninges. Meningeal fibroblasts showed heterogenous staining patterns with a monoclonal antibody against acetylated α-tubulin ranging from staining of primary cilia or microtubule-organising centers (MTOCs) alone to extensive microtubule networks. Staining with a broad spectrum anti-α-tubulin monoclonal indicated that all cells possessed cytoplasmic microtubule networks. From double-labeling experiments using an antibody against acetylated α-tubulin (6-11B-1) and antibodies against either tyrosinated or detyrosinated α-tubulin, it was found that acetylated α-tubulin and tyrosinated α-tubulin were often segregated to different microtubules. The microtubules containing acetylated but not tyrosinated α-tubulin were cold stable. Therefore, it appeared that in general meningeal cells possessed two subset of microtubules: One subset contained detyrosinated and acetylated α-tubulin and was cold stable, and the other contained tyrosinated α-tubulin and was cold labile. These results are consistent with the idea that acetylation and detyrosination of α-tubulin are involved in the specification of stable microtubules.
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    Stimulation of in vitro motility of Chlamydomonas axonemes by inhibition of cAMP-dependent phosphorylation (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 302-311 
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    Keywords: flagella ; cAMP ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: When demembranted axonemes of Chlamydomonas were reactivated with Mg ATP, the proportion of motile axonemes was significantly increased by the preence of either phosphodiesterase (PDE) or protein inhibitor of cAMP-dependent kinase (PKI). The effect of PDE was cancelled by the addition of cAMP. These findings strongly suggest that the axoneme samples have endogenous cAMP, which can reduce the proportion of motile axonemes via phosphorylation. This inhibitory effect of cAMP on Chlamydomonas axonemes is opposite to its stimulatory effect on the axonemal motility in other organisms so far reported. PKI or PDE activated the motility motility either in the absence of Ca2+, when the axonemes beat with an asymmetric waveform, or in 10-5M Ca2+, when the axonemes beat with a symmetric waveform. This cAMP-dependent regulation of motility was observed with the axonemes from which detergent-soluble material had been removed, indicating that the proteins responsible for the regulation still remained in the axonemes. Preliminary in vitro phosphorylation stdies have implicated two polypetides as candidates for the target protein of cAMP-dependent protein kinase: one with a molecular weight of 270 kD and the other with a much larger molecular weight.
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    Binding and distribution of fluorescently labeled filamin in permeabilized and living cells (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 345-359 
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    Keywords: alpha-actinin ; cytoskeleton ; muscle cells ; nonmuscle cells ; stress fiber ; myofibril ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: This study report the first development of a fluorescently labeled filamin. Smooth muscle was labeled with fluorscent dyes in order to study its interaction with stress fibers and myofibrils, both in living cells and in permeabilized cells. The labeled filamin bounds to the Z bands of isolated cross-striated myofibrils and to the Z bands and intercalated discs in both permeabilized embryonic cardiac myocytes and in frozen sections of adult rat venticle. In permeabilized embryonic chick myotubes, filamin bound to early myotubes but was absent at later stages. In living embryonic chick myotubes, the fluorescently labeled filamin was incorporated into the Z bands of myofibirls during early and late stages of develoment but was absent during an intermediate stages. In living cardiac myocytes, filamin-IAR was incorporated into nascent as well as fully formed sarcomeres throughout develoment. In permeabilized nonmuslce cells, labeled filamin bound to attachment plaques and foci of polygonal networks and to the dense bodies in stress fibers. The periodic bands of filamin in stress fibers had a longer spacing in fibroblasts than in epithelial cells. When injected into living cells, filamin was readily incorporated into stress fibers in a striated pattern. The fluorescent filamin bands were broader in injected cells, however, than they were in permeabilized cells. We have interpreted these results from living and permeabilized cells to mean that native filamin is distributed along the full lengh of the actin filaments in the stress fibers, with a higher concentration present in the dense bodies. A sarcomeric model is presented indicating the position of filamin with respect to other proteins in the stress fibers.
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    Frequency and orientation of pseudopod formation of Dictyostelium discoideum amebae chemotaxing in a spatial gradient: Further evidence for a temporal mechanism (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 18-26 
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    Keywords: chemotaxis ; cell motility ; cellular polarity ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Amebae of Dictyostelium discoideum normally chemotax to aggregation centers by assessing the direction of outwardly moving, nondissipating waves of the chemoattractant cAMP. However, D. discoideum amebae can also assess the direction of a relatively stable spatial gradient. We demonstrate that amebae migrating towards the “source” of a stable, spatial gradient move faster, extend fewer pseudopodia, and turn less frequently than amebae migrating away from the “source” in the same spatial gradient. In addition, amebae extend lateral pseudopods in a polarized fashion from the anterior half of the cell, and do so as frequently towards the source as away from the source. However, those formed towards the source more often produce a turn than those formed away from the source. These results suggest that there may be two decision-making systems, one localized in the pseudopods, and one along the entire cell body; they support the suggestion that Dictyostelium amebae may employ a temporal mechanism to assess the direction of a spatial gradient of chemoattractant.
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    Endoplasmic microtubules connect the advancing nucleus to the tip of legume root hairs, but F-actin is involved in basipetal migration (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 27-36 
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    Keywords: nuclear migration ; microtubules ; F-actin ; root hairs ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: A prominent feature of tip growth in filamentous plant cells is that the nucleus often migrates in step with the tip as it extends. We have studied this long-recognized but unexplained relationship in root hairs of the legume Vicia hirsuta by a variety of microscopic techniques. Using rhodaminyl lysine phallotoxin, and antitubulin antibodies, root hairs are shown to contain axial bundles of F-actin and a complex microtubular system. To the basal side of the nucleus the microtubules are cortical and net axial but in the region between nucleus and tip the arrangement is more complicated. Electron microscopic thin sections demonstrate that internal bundles of microtubles exist in addition to the plasma membrane-associated kind. Computerized deblurring of through-focal series of antitubulin stained hairs clarifies the three-dimensional organization: bundles of endoplasmic microtubules progress from the nuclear region toward the apical dome where they can be seen to fountain out upon the cortex.The relationship between nucleus and tip can be uncoupled with antimicrotubule herbicides. Time lapse video microscopy shows that these agents cause the nucleus to migrate toward the base. This contrary migration can be inhibited by adding cytochalasin D, which fragments the F-actin bundles.It is concluded that microtubules connect the nucleus to the tip but that F-actin is involved in basipetal migration as is known to occur when symbiotic bacteria uncouple the nucleus from the tip.
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    Isolation and initial biochemical characterisation of caps of two major rat thymocyte glycoprotens: Evidence for the involvement of a 205 K Con A binding protein and cytoskeletal components in capping (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 37-43 
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    Keywords: capping ; concanavalin A ; glycoprotein ; membrane-cytoskeletal interactions ; thymocyte ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Two major rat thymocyte surface glycoproteins, the leucocyte-common (L-C) antigen and the leucocyte sialoglycoprotein (LSGP), were induced to cap independently, using the specific monoclonal antibodies OX-1 and W3/13, respectively, and an appropriate fluorescently labeled second antibody layer. The caps were subsequently isolated from detergent extracted cells by a procedure involving gentle shearing.TRITC-phalloidin staining of the isolated caps demonstrated the presence of F-actin within these structures, and lectin-affinity staining after fractionation on SDS polyacrylamide gels revealed the presence of a concanavalin A (Con A) binding protein of relative molecular weight (Mr) 205,000, gp205, in both the L-C antigen and LSGP caps, but absent from the detergent-insoluble residue isolated from unchallenged cells. These results suggest that gp205 may be involved in the association of cross-linked glycoproteins with the cytoskeleton during capping.
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    Characterization of the intermediate filament apparatus in skin fibroblasts from patients with giant axonal neuropathy: Effect of trypsin (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 55-60 
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    Notes: Skin fibroblasts from two siblings with giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) were examined by both biochemical and immunocytochemical studies. The presence of intermediate filaments (IF) characteristic of these cells was affected by the growth conditions. Immediately after plating and during the following 24 hours the majority of the cells contained an IF “bundle”; however, after 4-6 days in culture only a minority of the cells retained this structure. We present evidence that trypsinization but not serum concentration is likely to influence the formation of the “bundle.” The results indicate that the formation of the “bundle” may result from a defective association or relationship between the cytoskeleton and the plasma membrane.
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    Protein phosphorylation and dynamics of cytoskeletal structures associated with basal bodies in Paramecium (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 44-54 
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    Keywords: monoclonal antibody ; phosphoproteins ; basal bodies ; morphogenesis ; Paramecium ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The presence of phosphorylated proteins associated with microtubule organizing centers in tissue culture cells during mitosis has been demonstrated by the use of monoclonal antibodies raised against mitotic HeLa cells [Vandre et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:4439-4443, 1984]. We report here that in Paramecium two of the mitosis specific antibodies, MPM-1 and MPM-2, decorate throughtout the cell cycle all the microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) located in the cortex and in the oral apparatus (gullet). Immuno-electron microscopy showed that these antibodies labeled the electron-dense material surrounding basal bodies from which several microtubule networks as well as kinetodesmal fibers originate. During mitosis, these antibodies also stained other cortical cytoskeletal structures, the kinetodesmal fibers (MPM-1 and MPM-2) and the epiplasm (MPM-1). Among the different polypeptides recognized by the antibodies on immunoblots, three major ones of 60, 63, and 116 kDa were found to be common to the cortex (where several thousand ciliary basal bodies are anchored) and the oral apparatus (which comprises several hundred basal bodies around which various arrays of cytoplasmic microtubules are organized). Alkaline phosphatase treatment abolished the immunoreactivity of the polypeptides and the labeling observed by immunofluorescence. These results demonstrate that phosphorylated proteins are associated with all the known active microtubule organizing centers present in the cortex throughout the cell cycle of Paramecium. Furthermore they indicate that in Paramecium phosphorylation of proteins could also be involved in the cell cycle dependent dynamics of cortical cytoskeletal structures other than microtubules.
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    Bending patterns of Chlamydomonas flagella: IV. Mutants with defects in inner and outer dynein arms indicate differences in dynein arm function (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 68-75 
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    Notes: Mutants with outer dynein arm defects or deficiencies all show a major reduction in beat frequency to about half the normal value; some of these mutants show an additional decrease in sliding velocity associated with reduced shear amplitude and an additional reduction in beat frequency, as well as other more minor modifications of the normal forward mode bending pattern. New mutants (ida98, pf30), which appear to be deficient in a subset of inner dynein arms show a reduction in sliding velocity that is primarily associated with a reduction in shear amplitude, with only a small reduction in beat frequency. These differences in motility phenotype between inner and outer dynein arm mutants suggest that inner and outer dynein arms may have distinct functions. The relatively large decrease in sliding velocity associated with partial loss of inner arms is consistent with earlier observations on pf23, a nonmotile mutant lacking inner arms, suggesting that inner arms may have an essential function in motility. The ability to generate reverse mode bending patterns is retained in some inner or outer dynein arm mutants, but appears to be decreased in those mutants which show reduced shear amplitude for the forward mode bending pattern.
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    Motile mechanism of blue damselfish (Chrysiptera cyanea) iridophores (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 85-90 
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    Keywords: blue damselfish ; motile iridophore ; microtubule ; colchicine ; EHNA ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Iridophores of the blue damselfish, Chrysiptera cyanea, responded to the sympathetic substance, norepinephrine by a shift towards longer wavelengths of the spectral peak of the light reflected by stacks of light-reflecting platelets (“coloring response”). All antimitotic reagents tested, i.e., colchicine, vinblastine, and podophyllotoxin, inhibited the response reversibly, while an actin inhibitor, cytochalasin B, did not. Erythro-9-[3-(2-hydroxynonyl)]adenine (EHNA), a dynein ATPase inhibitor, also blocked the iridophore response effectively. These results indicate that the tubulin-dynein system may be involved in the motility of iridophores, which is regarded as the simultaneous alteration of the distance between adjacent reflecting platelets within the cells.
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    Amebae of Dictyostelium discoideum respond to an increasing temporal gradient of the chemoattractant cAMP with a reduced frequency of turning: Evidence for a temporal mechanism in ameboid chemotaxis (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 7-17 
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    Keywords: cell motility ; sensory transduction ; slime mold ; pseudopod formation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: In an aggregation territory of Dictyostelium discoideum, outwardly moving, nondissipating waves of the chemoattractant cAMP sweep across each ameba. At the front of each wave, an ameba experiences an increasing temporal and a positive spatial gradient of cAMP. At the back of a wave, an ameba experiences a decreasing temporal and a negative spatial gradient of cAMP. Employing a perfusion chamber, we have mimicked the temporal dynamics of these waves in the absence of a spatial gradient and demonstrated that the frequency of lateral pseudopod formation and the frequency of turning are dramatically affected by the direction and dynamics of the temporal gradient. In addition, since an ameba will move in a directed fashion up a shallow, nonpulsatile gradient of cAMP, we also mimicked the increasing temporal gradient generated by an ameba moving up a shallow spatial gradient. The frequency of lateral pseudopod formation and the frequency of turning were depressed. Together, these results demonstrate that amebae can assess the direction of a temporal gradient of chemoattractant in the absence of a spatial gradient and alter both the frequency of pseudopod extension and turning, accordingly. Although these results do not rule out the involvement of a spatial mechanism in assessing a spatial gradient, they strongly suggest that the temporal dynamics of a cAMP wave or the temporal gradient generated by an ameba moving through a spatial gradient may play a major role in chemotaxis.
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    Platelet intermediate filaments: Detection of a vimentinlike protein in human and bovine platelets (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 61-67 
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    Keywords: platelets ; cytoskeleton ; vimentin ; microtubules ; immunofluorescence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Human and bovine platelets contain a 58,000-dalton vimentinlike protein that cross-reacts with antivimentin antibody. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blots indicate that this protein is present in whole platelet lysates and triton insoluble cytoskeletons. Transmission electron microscopy of platelets reveals an isotropic network of individual intermediate filaments distributed throughout the platelets. High salt, triton extracted, glutaraldehyde and tannic acid fixed platelets reveal 10-nm filaments that can be seen to form a peripheral ring, as well as an isotropic network in the body of the cells. Indirect immunofluorescence of resting and spread platelets demonstrates a circumferential staining pattern close to the cell membrane, with additional fibrillar staining throughout the platelets. Our data suggest that the 58,000-dalton vimentinlike protein may be associated with the microtuble coil and the plasma membrane, and may thus help to maintain the resting platelet's discoid shape.
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    Masthead (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987) 
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    Topographical relationship between the axonemal arrangement and the bend direction in starfish sperm flagella (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 76-84 
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    Keywords: flagella ; starfish spermatozoon ; proximal centriole ; bend direction ; bend asymmetry ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Since starfish spermatozoa have spherical heads, it is not easy to determine the topographical relationship of the axoneme to the directions of the flagellar bends, the principal, and the reverse bends as defined by Gibbons and Gibbons [J. Cell. Biol. 1972, 63:970-985]. The demembranated spermatozoa are known to take the quiescent “cane” shape with a sharp principal bend at the proximal region of the flagellum in the presence of high concentration of Ca2+. When such spermatozoa were placed on a grid for electron microscopy, fixed with osmic acid vapor, washed with distilled water, and negatively stained with urany1 acetate, the head of the spermatozoon was disrupted and dispersed disclosing the proximal centriole at at the proximal end of the flagellum. The proximal centriole was always found on the concave side of the “cane” -shaped flagella. Electron microscopy of the serial thin sections of intact and demembranated spermatozoa revealed that the doublet microtobules numbers 5 and 6 were contained in the convex edge of the principal bend.
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    Immunolocalization of muscle and nonmuscle isoforms of actin in myogenic cells and adult skeletal muscle (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 337-348 
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    Keywords: isoactins ; immunogold ; myofibrils ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: In vertebrate skeletal muscle, the proliferating myoblasts synthesize nonmuscle isoforms of actin, and the cells begin to express muscle-specific actin isoforms during their myogenic differentiation. To study the distributions of the actin isoforms in myogenic cells and fully differentiated skeletal muscle, we prepared a peptide antibody specific for the skeletal α isoform of actin and used this antibody along with an antibody specifically reactive with nonmuscle γ actin to stain cultured myotubes and adult skeletal myofibrils by double-indirect immunofluorescence. At this level of resolution, no differences in isoform localization were seen: Both muscle and nonmuscle actins were detected in the myotubes and in the striations of mature myofibrils. Myotubes were also double-stained using immunogold electron microscopy, and the isoform distributions were determined quantitatively by counting the two sizes of gold particles that corresponded to labeling with each antibody. A quantitative analysis of immunoreactivity revealed that, although both forms were present in all actin-containing structures, nonmuscle actin was relatively more prevalent along the edges (cortical microfilaments) of the myotubes, whereas the muscle isoform predominated in the interior regions (containing forming myofibrils). Thus, we have found evidence of a heterogeneous distribution of muscle and nonmuscle actin isoforms in differentiating myogenic cells, and we have demonstrated that a nonmuscle actin isoform is a component of the muscle contractile apparatus.
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    Vimentin dynamics during the mitogenic stimulation of mouse splenic lymphocytes (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 227-237 
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    Keywords: Vimentin ; tubulin ; lymphocytes ; stimulation ; mitosis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We have used double immunofluorescence and electron microscopy to examine the distribution of tubulin and vimentin during the stimulation of mouse splenic lymphocytes by the mitogen concanavalin A. In unstimulated cells, vimentin forms a filamentous network partially coincident with the radial pattern of microtubules. In stimulated cells, the numbers of microtubules assembled from the centrosome. When these cells enter mitosis, vimentin is arranged into a filamentous cage enclosing the mitotic apparatus. During cytokinesis, the polar centrosomes are observed at a position adjacent to the midbody and vimentin is detected as an aggregate, similar to that seen prior to mitosis, close to the centrosome in each daughter cell. Using several agents, such as colchicine, colcemid, nocodazole, and taxol, which affect microtubule assembly, we have observed that the vimentin system, although closely related spatially to the microtubule complex in lymphocytes, can still reorganize independently as these cells progress through in the cell cycle. Throughout mitogenic stimulation in the continued presence of taxol, microtubules are reorganized into a few thick bundles while the vimentin system undergoes a sequence of rearragements similar to those observed during normal stimulation. These data suggest that vimentin dynamics may be important in the progression of lymphocytes through the cell cycle in response to mitogen.
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    Micromanipulation studies of the mitotic apparatus in sand dollar eggs (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 172-184 
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    Keywords: chromosome movement ; spindle elongation ; micromanipulation ; mechanical properties ; mitosis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Mechanical properties of the mitotic spindle and the effects of various operations of the mitotic apparatus on the chromosome movement and spindle elongation were investigated in fertilized eggs and blastomeres of the sand dollar, Clypeaster japonicus. On the basis of results with mechanical stretching and compression of the spindle with a pair of microneedles and the behavior of an oil drop microinjected into the spindle, it was concluded that the equatorial region of the spindle is mechanically weaker than the half-spindle region. Anaphase chromosome movement occurred in the spindle from which an aster had been removed or separated with its polar end and in the spindle in which the interzonal region had been removed. This fact indicates that chromosomes move poleward in anaphase by forces generated near the kinetochores in the half-spindle. Because of the effects of separation or removal of an aster from the spindle on the spindle elongation in anaphase and the behavior of the aster, it was concluded that the spindle elongation in anaphase is caused by pulling forces generated by asters attached to the ends of the spindle.
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    Dynamics of the endoplasmic reticulum in living onion epidermal cells in relation to microtubules, microfilaments, and intracellular particle movement (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 153-163 
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    Keywords: intracellular particle motions ; cytoplasmic streaming ; onion (Allium) epidermal cells ; video microscopy ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and associated organelle and particle movements in onion (Allium cepa) bulb scale epidermal cells were observed, recorded, and analyzed using computer-assisted video (AVEC-DIC, AVEC-POL and fluorescence) microscopy. The ER is composed of two interconnected sets of filamentous membrane tubules with diameters ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 μm. The first form a more stable, stationary network of intersecting polygonal membrane tubules lying closely appressed to the plasma membrane and continuous with a second very dynamic set of longer membrane tubules that often are located parallel to each other, shifting rapidly around the cytoplasm and forming dynamic knots or organization centers. The ER, mitochondria, and spherosomes fluoresced upon chlortetracycline treatment and are therefore presumed to sequester calcium. ER and mitochrondria also stain with the fluorescent dye, rhodamine 123. Mitochrondria and spherosomes are seen to move in the cytoplasm only along paths parallel to the axis of the ER tubules. Smaller particles (0.5 μm) tend to follow these same paths but may occasionally move independently. Particles and organelles move in close, but not in direct, association with the ER tubules. In optically favored cells, actin filaments were occasionally recorded located in parallel with the ER tubules and directly associated with moving particles. Streaming ceased promptly and reversibly upon treatment with cytochalasin B, which did not visibly disrupt the ER. Short-term treatment with colchicine did not inhibit streaming or disrupt the ER network, whereas long-term (hours) colchicine treatments caused the disappearance of the stationary, cortical polygonal networks and an aggregation of still slowly moving organelles and particles onto now visible actin filaments. This suggests that microtubule breakdown disrupts the three-dimensional distribution of the ER and rearranges actin filaments in the cell's cytoplasm. Actin filaments must be directly involved in generation of movement of the particles and organelles. A three-dimensional model, based on optical sectioning of the epidermal cells, is proposed to illustrate the distribution of the endoplasmic reticulum in onion epidermal cell cytoplasm.
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    Microtubule dynamics in the chromosomal spindle fiber: Analysis by fluorescence and high-resolution polarization microscopy (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 185-196 
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    Keywords: mitosis ; kinetochore ; video microscopy ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We describe preliminary results from two studies exploring the dynamics of microtubule assembly and organization within chromosomal spindle fibers. In the first study, we microinjected fluorescently labeled tubulin into mitotic PtK1 cells and measured fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching (FRAP) to determine the assembly dynamics of the microtubules within the chromosomal fibers in metaphase cells depleted of nonkinetochore microtubules by cooling to 23-24°C. FRAP measurements showed that the tubulin throughout at least 72% of the microtubules within the chromosomal fibers exchanges with the cellular tubulin pool with a half-time of 77 sec. There was no observable poleward flux of subunits. If the assembly of the kinetochore microtubules is governed by dynamic instability, our results indicate that the half-life of microtubule attachment to the kinetochore is less than several min at 23-24°C.In the second study, we used high-resolution polarization microscopy to observe microtubule dynamics during mitosis in newt lung epithelial cells. We obtained evidence from 150-nm-thick optical sections that microtubules throughout the spindle laterally associate for several sec into “rods” composed of a few microtubules. These transient lateral associations between microtubules appeared to produce the clustering of nonkinetochore and kinetochore microtubules into the chromosomal fibers. Our results indicate that the chromosomal fiber is a dynamic structure, because microtubule assembly is transient, lateral interactions between microtubules are transient, and the attachment of the kinetochores to microtubules may also be transient.
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    High time-resolution analysis of transient bending patterns during ciliary responses following electric stimulation in sea urchin embryos (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 198-208 
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    Keywords: high-speed microcinematography ; Hemicentrotus ; primitive response ; ciliary reversal ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Transient ciliary movement during responses to electric stimulation of embryos of the sea urchin, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, was analyzed in terms of angular direction with a time resolution of approximately 2 ms with high-speed microcinematography. In the primitive response, which can be induced only in the early stages of development of the embryo, bending transients always started with a short pause in the middle of the effective stroke, irrespective of beat position on stimulation. In the reversal response, induced only in the late stages of development, bending transients occurred with a delay as short as some 10 ms from stimulation, and with a transient sharp deviation from the normal beat before the cilium took the position of the beginning of the recovery stroke of the reversed beat. The delay was significantly shorter at the base than at the tip, suggesting that some form of signal travels along the cilium; the speed was ten times higher than that of propagating bends in the normal beat. These facts indicate that the sensitivity to internal changes resulting from stimulation of the axoneme may vary with development, ciliary beat positions, and regions along the cilium.
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    Detection of single fluorescent microtubules and methods for determining their dynamics in living cells (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 237-245 
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    Keywords: video microscopy ; digital image processing ; fluorescence photobleaching ; microtubule dynamics ; living cell dynamics ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The ability to tag biological molecules fluorescently and to detect their distribution in living cells has promoted the study of cytoplasmic organization in general and microtubule dynamics in particular. The techniques that we have selected and developed allowed the determination of spatial and temporal changes of the microtubule network in living fibroblasts at the level of individual microtubules. We have employed two general approaches for determining pattern changes: direct video microscopy and photobleaching and subsequent observation. Direct observation of fluorescent microtubules by high-definition video microscopy provided good spatial resolution at several time points, but was limited to the less congested and thinner periphery of the cell. This approach was made possible by a relatively bright, photostable reporter, xrhodamine-tubulin, and showed that microtubules underwent rounds of assembly and disassembly from their ends. Bleaching and subsequent observation of lysed cells improved the signal to noise ratio by extracting soluble chromophore and permitted observations in congested areas, but was limited to a single time interval. This approach demonstrated that microtubule domains were replaced one by one and that turnover was most rapid at the cell periphery. Antibodies specific for nonbleached chromophore can be used to enhance the signal to noise ratio further or to extend spatial resolution by the use of immunoelectron microscopy. Direct video microscopy and photo-bleaching are two approaches to the study of dynamics that have complementary strengths and wide application to the biology of living cells.
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    Vesikin, a vesicle associated ATPase from squid axoplasm and optic lobe, has characteristics in common with vertebrate brain MAP 1 and MAP 2 (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 246-254 
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    Notes: Vesikin, a protein that can associate with squid axoplasmic vesicles or optic lobe microtubuies, has been implicated as a force-generating molecule involved in microtubule-dependent vesicle transport [Gilbert and Sloboda, 1986, 1988]. Because vesikin crossreacts with an antibody to porcine brain microtubule associated protein 2 (MAP 2), studies were conducted to compare squid vesikin and brain MAPs. When taxol stabilized microtubules containing vesikin as a microtubule associated protein were incubated in the presence of ATP, vesikin dissociated from the microtubule subunit lattice. This behavior would be expected for an ATP-dependent, force generating molecule that serves as a crossbridge between vesicles and microtubules. When chick brain microtubules were treated under the same conditions, MAP 2 remained bound to the microtubules while MAP 1 dissociated in a manner similar to vesikin. One dimensional peptide mapping procedures revealed that, although digestion of vesikin and MAP 2 generated several peptides common to both proteins, vesikin and MAP 2 are clearly not identical. Furthermore, the addition of vesikin or MAPS 1 and 2 to purified tubulin stimulated microtubule assembly in a manner dependent on the concentration of added protein. These findings demonstrate that brain MAPs share characteristics common to squid vesikin and support the suggestion that brain MAPs 1 and 2 might act as a force generating complex for vesicle transport in higher organisms.
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    Microtubule-associated organelle and vesicle transport in fibroblasts (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 255-262 
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    Notes: Allen Video-enhanced constrast/differential interference constrast (AVEC-DIC) microscopy was used in conjunction with video intensification immunofluorescence microscopy to demonstrate that organelles and vesicle (particles) can move in either direction along microtubular linear elements in fibroblasts [Hayden et al., 1983]. Since it is not possible to determine the number of microtubules making up a linear element with light microscopy alone, AVEC-DIC microscopy was used in conjunction with whole-mount electron microscopy to show bidirectional transport along a single microtubule [Hayden and Allen, 1984]. These studies demonstrate that the structural polarity of the microtubule does not determine the direction of particle motion, and since dynein is an asymetric molecule, a simple microtubule-dynein-particle hypothesis cannot explain bidirectional transport along a single microtubule.Very little is known about regulation of particle transport in most cell types. Human embryonic lung fibroblasts grown on glass coverslips were serum-deprived for 24 hours and re-fed with serumless medium; the particle translocations/5 minutes were then determined The cells were then re-fed with either serumless medium, serum-containing medium, or serumless medium containing some bioactive factor, and the particle translocations/5 minutes were again determined for the same cells. Medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum inhibited particle translocation by 51.8%. Of the bioactive factors tested, only vasopressin produced a significant reduction in particle translocations (38%). This suggests that protein kinase C or calcium/calmodulin kinase could be involved in regulating particle transport.
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    Dynein as a microtubule translocator in ciliary motility: Current studies of arm structure and activity pattern (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 263-270 
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    Keywords: cilia ; axoneme ; ATP-induced microtubule sliding ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The dynein arms of ciliary doublet microtubules cause adjacent axonemal doublets to slide apart with fixed polarity. This suggests that there is a unique mechanochemistry to the dynein arm with unidirectional force generation in all active arms and also that not all arms are active at once during a ciliary beat. Negative stain and thin-section images of arms in axonemes treated with β, γ methylene adenosine triphosphate (AMP-PCP) show a consistent subunit construction where the globular head of the arm interacts with subfiber B of doublet N + 1. This interpretation differs from that provided by freeze etch and STEM interpretations of in situ arm construction and has implications for the mechanochemical cycle of the arm. A computer model of the arms in relation to other axonemal structures has been constructed to test these interpretations. Attachment of the head of the arm to subfiber B is directly demonstrable in splayed axonemes in AMP-PCP. About half of the doublets in an axoneme show such attachments, while half do not. This might imply that about half the doublets in an axoneme are active at any given instant and can be identified as such. This information may be useful in probing questions of how active arms differ biochemically from inactive arms and of how microtubule translocators in general become active.
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    Regulation of activation state and flagellar wave form in epididymal rat sperm: Evidence for the involvement of both CA2+ and cAMP (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 324-332 
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    Keywords: sperm motility ; procaine ; calcium ; cAMP ; flagellum ; epididymis ; TMB-8 ; hyperactivation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Rat sperm from the cauda epididymis exhibit increased motility, longevity, and a distinct circular pattern of flagellar curvature in response to 5 mM procaine-HCI or 0.1 mM 8-(N, N-diethylamino)-octyl-3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate (TMB-8), reagents that are thought to play a role in the immobilization of free cellular calcium. Triton X-100-extracted sperm models will exhibit the same pattern of motility and curvature as procaine- or TMB-8-activated cells, but only when calcium is removed by a strong chelating agent, and in the pesence of cAMP (3 μM). Demembranated sperm models produced from epididymal rat sperm are quiescent unless cAMP is added. In these sperm models, the presence or absence of free calcium mediates a transition in flagellar curvature. The increased activity of the procaine-treated intact cells was not accompained by a change in cellular ATP content, nor was ATP availability the limiting factor in the quiescent sperm. Therefore, the increased motility produced by procaine is probably mediated by a fall in free intracellular Ca2+ accompained by a rise in cAMP. Our finding that calcium controls the curvature of sperm flagella may explain altered patterns of flagellar beating, such as the hyperactivated motility that sperm exhibit in the female reproductive tract.
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    Stepwise sliding disintegration of tetrahymena ciliary axonemes at higher concentrations of ATP (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 191-204 
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    Keywords: turbidity ; ciliary doublet ; biphasic ; extrusion ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Several characteristics of the sliding disintegration of Tetrahymena ciliary axonemes were found by turbidimetric assay, the ATP-regenerating system, and quantitative determination of the ATP concentration. At ATP concentrations exceeding 40 μM, the response in terms of turbidity was biphasic and could be divided into three phases. The dependence of each phase on ATP concentration was examined. The time duration of phase 2 increased with ATP concentration. When the ATP concentration was kept constant by the ATP-regenerating system, consisting of pyruvate kinase and phosphoenol pyruvate, the time duration of phase 2 increased with the concentration of phosphoenol pyruvate. On examining the change in turbidity with decreasing ATP concentration, the transition from phase 2 to phase 3 was found to occur at an ATP concentration of 40 μM.Dark-field and electron microscopy indicated the sliding disintegration to be closely correlated with the degree of tubidity. At phase 1, one or two doublets extruded from most of the axonemes, and disintegration failed to progress during phase 2. At the transition point from phase 2 to 3, at about 40 μM, ATP, other doublets were noted to extrude from the axonemes one after the other, causing turbidity to be minimal by the end of phase 3.The ATP concentration dependence of stepwise sliding disintegration suggests that each axoneme may possess the ability to regulate doublet microtubule sliding at lower or higher concentrations of ATP. In response to local differences or gradients of ATP concentration along the axoneme, the axonemes may cause localized sliding of doublets, thus subsequently generating active bending movement.
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    Colocalization of F-actin and 34-kilodalton actin bundling protein in dictyostelium amoebae and cultured fibroblasts (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 205-218 
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    Keywords: F-actin ; actin bundling protein ; cytoimmunofluorescence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The Ca+2-sensitive actin-binding protein isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum, 30,000-D protein (Fechheimer and Taylor: J. Biol. Chem. 259:4514-4520, 1984;) has recently been localized in filipodia of substrate-adhered amoebae (Fechheimer: J. Cell Biol. 104:1539-1551, 1987). We have determined that this protein has a Mr of 34,000 daltons and is strictly colocalized with actin filaments in both substrate-attached Dictyostelium amoebae and cultured fibroblasts. 3T3 fibroblasts, as well as normal and virally transformed rat kidney fibroblasts (NRK) contain a 34-kilodalton (kD) protein that cross-reacts specifically with antibody to the Dictyostelium bundling protein. Mammalian 34-kD protein is colocalized with F-actin in stress fibers and the cortical cytoskeleton in substratadhered fibroblasts. In substrate-adhered vegetative Dictyostelium, F-actin and 34-kD protein are concentrated in regions of the cell cortex exhibiting filipodia and membrane ridges. Multiple filipodia formed after exposure to the chemoattractant folic acid stain intensely for 34-kD protein, implying participation in the assembly of actin bundles during filipod formation. The cortex of pseudopodia also contained high concentrations of bundling protein, but pseudopod interiors did not. In contrast to vegetative Dictyostelium, F-actin and 34-kD protein were not colocalized in cells that had progressed through the development cycle. In fruiting bodies, 34-kD protein was detected by immunofluorescence microscopy only in prespore cells, while F-actin appeared in stalk cells and spores.
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    Axonal neurofilaments differ in composition and morphology from those in the soma of the squid stellate ganglion (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 349-360 
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    Keywords: neurofilaments ; intermediate filaments ; neuronal cytoskeleton ; neurofilament heterogeneity ; neurofilament composition ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Triton X-100 insoluble neurofilament (NF) fractions were obtained from two parts of the stellate ganglion and the main giant axon. These were analyzed by one- and two-dimensional gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, cyclic assembly and disassembly, and electron microscopy. The NF fractions from the ganglion cell bodies (GCB) and from the part of the ganglion mainly consisting of axon initial segments (GIS) were of similar composition; neither contained detectable amounts of the 220 kda and high molecular weight ( 400 kda) NF subunits that were prominent in the axonal NF fraction. However, the GCB and GIS did contain large quantities of a set of 65 kda polypeptides that were minor constituents of the axonal NF fraction. The 65 kda-containing NF fraction from the ganglion could be cyclically disassembled and reassembled, but only under low salt conditions, in contrast to the high salt conditions used to cycle axonal NFs. A comparison of the peptide map of the 65 kda polypeptides with that of the 60 kda axonal NF subunit showed them to be different. These biochemical differences between the ganglionic and axonal NF fractions correlated with morphologic distinctions: ganglionic NFs were relatively smooth surfaced, whereas axonal NFs had long sidearms. Such observations support the hypothesis that the NF cytoskeleton of the neuron soma is different from that of the axon. Furthermore, the change from the somal form to the axonal form of NFs appears to occur in the region where the axon initial segment increases in diameter to become the axon proper.
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    Modulation of nuclear rotation in neuronal interphase nuclei by nerve growth factor, by γ-aminobutyric acid, and by changes in intracellular calcium (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 363-373 
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    Keywords: nuclear rotation ; karyoplasmic streaming ; nucleus ; nucleolus ; 3-D motion ; time-lapse photography ; NGF ; GABA ; calcium ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Nuclear rotation (NR) is typically measured as motion of nucleoli within nuclei of cells in vitro. This occurs in cycling cells. However, its observation in neurons arrested in interphase indicates that mechanisms related to mitosis are not a prerequisite. We have recently shown that NR occurs in three dimensions within the nuclear space, that it occurs within the space delineated by the outer nuclear membrane and that it includes chromatin domains in addition to nucleoli and have postulated that this motion of chromatin domains is related to changes in gene expression. We now show that exposure of dorsal root, sensory neurons in vitro to nerve growth factor (NGF) or to γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), agents which alter gene expression, and to agents causing redistribution of calcium, such as EGTA and the calcium ionophore A23187, significantly alters NR. The NGF increased the mean rate of NR and did so at a time after exposure when activity of RNA polymerases have been shown to rise. Exposure to GABA resulted, within minutes, in shifts of the nucleolus within the three-dimensional space of the nucleus, associated in some neurons with significant, sigmoidal increases in the rate of NR. The calcium ionophore A23187 as well as chelation of extracellular calcium with EGTA similarly increased rates. Importantly, excess calcium, with EGTA remaining present, returned NR of all nucleoli to rates not different from controls. This indicates that the increase in NR seen with EGTA is specific to the chelation of calcium and not a nonspecific response to EGTA. It is difficult to link the action of agents which alter gene expression or transmembrane ion balance with changes in NR. Nevertheless, in support of our hypothesis, the results presented here show that agents known to alter gene expression, alter NR in a temporally coincident manner and that they do so, possibly, by calcium-dependent mechanisms.
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    Calcium regulation of flagellar curvature and swimming pattern in triton X-100-extracted rat sperm (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 420-431 
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    Keywords: sperm motility ; hyperactivation ; vanadate ; nickel ; cadmium ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Free Ca2+ changes the curvature of epididymal rat sperm flagella in demembranated sperm models. The radius of curvature of the flagellar midpiece region was measured and found to be a continuous function of the free Ca2+ concentration. Below 10-7 M free Ca2+, the sperm flagella assumed a pronounced curvature in the same direction as the sperm head. The curvature reversed direction at 2.5 × 10-6 M Ca2+ to assume a tight, hook-like bend at concentrations of 10-5 to 10-4 M free Ca2+. Sodium vanadate at 2 × 10-6 M blocked flagellar motility, but did not inhibit the Ca2+-mediated change in curvature. Nickel ion at 0.2 mM and cadmium ion at 1 μM interfered with the transition and induced the low Ca2+ configuration of the flagellum. The forces that maintain the Ca2+-dependent curvature are locally produced, as dissection of the flagella into segments did not significantly alter the curvature of the excised portions. Irrespective of the induced pattern of curvature, the sperm exhibited coordinated, repetitive flagellar beating in the presence of ATP and cAMP. At 0.3 mM ATP the flagellar waves propagated along the principal piece while the level of free Ca2+ controlled the overall curvature. When Ca2+-treated sperm models with hooked midpieces were subjected to higher concentrations of ATP (1-5 mM), some cells exhibited a pattern of movement similar to hyperactivated motility in capacitated live sperm. This type of motility involved repetitive reversals of the Ca2+-induced bend in the midpiece, as well as waves propagated along the principal piece. The free Ca2+ available to the flagellum therefore appeared to modify both the pattern of motility and the flagellar curvature.
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    Proteolytic fragmentation of Dictyostelium myosin and localization of the in vivo heavy chain phosphorylation site (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 471-481 
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    Keywords: Dictyostelium ; limited proteolysis ; thick filaments ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Dictyostelium myosin was associated into dimers and small oligomers at very low ionic strength, filamentous at intermediate ionic strength, and monomeric in solution conditions of high ionic strength. These different associations were probed by fragmenting myosin with chymotrypsin, trypsin, or V-8 protease. All three proteases digested monomeric myosin giving rise to multiple fragments with a wide range of molecular weights. Filamentous myosin was not digested by the V-8 protease, was preferentially cleaved at a single site in the middle of the heavy chain by chymotrypsin, and was cleaved at several sites by trypsin. If the reaction was carried out in very low ionic strength, however, two of these proteases generated stable fragments of high molecular weight. Electron microscopic analysis of these stable fragments showed that tails were shorter than in intact myosin, indicating that the cleavage sites were in the rod portion of the molecule. Under the same conditions of enzymatic digestion, myosin that had been radio labeled in vivo with 32P was analyzed by SDS-PAGE and autoradiography. By comparing the state of phosphorylation and the size of the stable fragments, it was determined that the heavy chain phosphorylation site was located between 55 and 70 kD from the tip of the myosin tail, near a region where the tail displayed sharp bends.
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    EGTA induces prolonged summed depolarizations in Mytilus gill coupled ciliated epithelial cells: Implications for the control of ciliary motility (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 464-470 
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    Keywords: ciliary beat ; cell coupling ; calcium dependency ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Abfrontal ciliated cells of Mytilus edulis gill beat when mechanically stimulated, a consequence of a Ca++-based generator potential and regenerative response. In contrast, the lateral ciliated epithelial cells arrest when stimulated, a consequence of a Ca++-based generator potential and a Na+/Ca++-based regenerative response. Iontophoretic injection of EGTA in abfrontal cells, followed by mechanical stimulation, results in a large, prolonged depolarization that returns to the resting level stepwise. It has been hypothesized that this phenomenon is caused by successive Ca++-dependent repolarizations in coupled cells, first in adjacent cells and then in the injected cell, in accord with relative EGTA loading. We have now demonstrated this same stepwise repolarization phenomenon in the Na+/Ca++-dependent lateral ciliated cells. In this case, each repolarization step is often preceded by a small spike. With either cell type, using two-electrode recording techniques, we can detect the stepwise repolarization in distant cells, proportionately decremented when the second (KCl) electrode is some distance from the injection (EGTA) electrode and stimulus. When force is applied between the electrodes and nearest the KCl electrode, a greater initial response is recorded from this electrode, presumably resulting from depolarization of its impaled cell, prolonged by EGTA diffusion through the intervening cell junctions. The subsequent repolarization steps are of approximately the same size, suggesting repolarization of cells between the two electrodes. These observations are consistent with the cell coupling/EGTA loading hypothesis and indicate that both cell types mediate repolarization through Ca++ and propagate ciliary beat or arrest through intracellular coupling.
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    Centripetal transport of cytoplasm, actin, and the cell surface in lamellipodia of fibroblasts (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 11 (1988), S. 235-247 
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    Notes: Wound healing in Swiss 3T3 cultures was investigated with video-enhanced contrast (VEC) microscopy. The formation of protrusions at the leading edge of cells along wounds was investigated in detail during the spreading stage, which usually lasted from 1 to 4 hr postwounding. Lamellipodia exhibited a continuous rearward, or centripetal, transport of a variety of cellular constituents at rates of ∼0.26 μm/sec from the leading edge. The lamellipodia were also the sites of lateral migration as well as extension and retraction of actin microspikes. Actin fibers oriented transversely to the direction of movement were also observed to transport centripetally at similar rates. These fibers may in part give rise to large actin fibers forming at the interface between the base of the lamellipodia and the lamellae. Beads 0.5 μm in diameter attached to the dorsal surfaces of lamellipodia also transported centripetally at rates of ∼0.21 μm/sec. Thus there is an apparent correlation between transport of a variety of structures within lamellipodia and with surface movements of lamellipodia.
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    Video supplement assembly, disassembly, and movements of the microfilament-rich ridge during the amoeboflagellate transformation in Physarum polycephalumData corresponding to this article are planned for inclusion in a forthcoming Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton Video Supplement (1989). (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 11 (1988), S. 223-234 
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    Keywords: actin ; rhodamine-phalloidin ; cell shape and movement ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The amoeboflagellate transformation in Physarum polycephalum involves a series of dramatic changes in cell shape and motile behavior. This report describes the morphological and behavioral changes through which a synchronously transforming population of cells passes, stressing that, although there are a series of distinguishable stages, cells at all stages display striking plasticity. Our previous studies showed that amoeboflagellates transiently display a flattened motile extension - the ridge - that projects from a specific location on the cell surface and contains a laminar core densely packed with a series of crisscrossing arrays of actin microfilaments. Details are presented here concerning the movements of the ridge as well as the dynamics of ridge formation and disassembly in relation to other morphogenetic events of the transformation. The ridge forms at about the same time as transforming cells begin to elongate, propagates undulations parallel to the long axis of the cell as the transformation proceeds, and disassembles late in the transformation. Staining of fixed cells with the fluorescent probe rhodaminephalloidin shows that the actin of amoeboid cells is strikingly redistributed as the transformation proceeds. Amoeboflagellates contain most of the stainable actin in the ridge and in a ventral-posterior spot that may be a site of cell-substratum adhesion. These results provide additional insights into the possible functions of the ridge and the roles of actin during the amoeboflagellate transformation.
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    Correlation between the distribution of smooth muscle or non muscle myosins and α-smooth muscle actin in normal and pathological soft tissues (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 11 (1988), S. 260-274 
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    Notes: The distribution of smooth muscle (SM) and non muscle myosins was compared with that of α-SM actin in various normal and pathological tissues and in cultured cells by means of indirect immunofluorescence using a monoclonal antibody specific for α-SM actin [anti-αsm-1, Skalli et al., 1986b] and two polyclonal antibodies raised against bovine aortic myosin (ABAM) and human platelet myosin (AHPM), respectively.In normal tissues ABAM stained vascular and parenchymal smooth muscle cells (SMC), myoepithelial cells and myoid cells of the testis in a pattern similar to that reported by other authors with antisera raised against non vascular SM myosin. Cells stained with ABAM were always positive for anti-αsm-1. In human and experimental atheromatous plaques, most cells were positive for AHPM; a variable proportion was also stained for ABAM plus anti-αsm-1. Myofibroblasts from rat granulation tissue, Dupuytren's nodule and stroma from breast carcinoma were constantly positive for AHPM and negative for ABAM; however, myofibroblasts from Dupuytren's nodule and breast carcinoma were anti-αsm-1 positive. Early primary cultures of rat aortic SMC were positive for ABAM and anti-αsm-1 and became negative for ABAM and positive for AHPM after a few days in culture. They remained positive for AHPM and anti-αsm-1 after passages; the staining of AHPM and anti-αsm-1 appeared to be colocalized along the same stress fibers.These results may be relevant for the understanding of SMC function and adaptation, and show that in non malignant SMC proliferation, α-SM actin represents a more general marker of SM origin than SM myosin.
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    Microtubules are required for centrosome expansion and positioning while microfilaments are required for centrosome separation in sea urchin eggs during fertilization and mitosis (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 11 (1988), S. 248-259 
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    Keywords: griseofulvin ; microtubule organizing center ; cell division ; β-mercaptoethanol ; pronuclei ; cytochalasin ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Centrosomes undergo cell cycle-dependent changes in shape and separations, changes that govern the organization of the cytoskeleton. The cytoskeleton is largely organized by the centrosome; however, this investigation explores the importance of cytoskeletal elements in directing centrosome shape. Since the sea urchin egg during fertilization and mitosis displays dramatic and synchronous changes in centrosome shape, the effects of cytoskeletal inhibitors on centrosome compaction, expansion, and separation were explored by the use of anticentrosome immunofluorescence microscopy. Centrosome expansion and separation was studied during two phases: the transition after sperm incorporation, when the compact sperm centrosome enlarges and the sperm aster develops, and from prometaphase to telophase, when the compact spindle poles enlarge. Compaction was investigated when the dispersed centrosome at interphase condenses into the two spindle poles at prometaphase. Although centrosome expansion and separation typically occur concurrently, β-mercaptoethanol results in centrosome separation independent of expansion. Microtubule inhibitors prevent centrosome expansion and separation, and expanded centrosomes collapse. Since pronuclear union is arrested by microtubule inhibitors, this treatment also affords the opportunity to explore the relative attractiveness of the male and female pronuclei for these centrosomal antigens. Both pronuclei acquire centrosomal material; though only the male centrosome is capable of organizing a functional bipolar mitotic apparatus at first division, the female centrosome nucleates a monaster. Microfilament inhibition (cytochalasin D) prevents centrosome separation but not expansion or compaction. These results demonstrate that as the centrosome shapes the cytoskeleton, the cytoskeleton alters centrosome shape.
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    The ciliary cycle during hyperpolarization-induced activity: An analysis of axonemal functional parameters (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 11 (1988), S. 275-290 
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    Keywords: ciliary motility ; inclination ; polarity of beating ; sliding velocity ; sliding translocation rate ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Motor responses of the frontal cirri of the ciliate Stylonychia were recorded at the axial view of the ciliary base with high-speed cinematography. Voltage-clamp applying sustained hyperpolarizing voltage steps was used to explore the properties of the ciliary cycle modulated by the membrane potential. Upon hyperpolarization between - 1 and - 13 mV, a previously inactive frontal cirrus reoriented from a neutral posture and started beating so that the axis of the beating cone of a proximal cirral segment assumed an orientation near 100° (proceeding counterclockwise from posterior = 0°) and inclination near 60° (0° = perpendicular to the cell surface). The major beating amplitude was limited to about 150°. Increasing hyperpolarization increased the spatial polarity of the cycle (ratio of major over minor amplitude, from 2 to 2.4). Rates of the power stroke increased with hyperpolarizations up to - 4 mV but were consistently smaller than those of the return stroke during the ciliary cycle (ratio: 0.4 to 0.6; = temporal polarity). Comparison of different hypothetical beat forms (0-shape, D-shape, and egg-shape) showed that the orientation-time data are the major determinants of the angular velocity and rate of reorientation of the cilium during the cycle. Geometric transformation of these data led to descriptions of the cycle of a proximal ciliary segment in terms of active sliding velocities and rates of unidirectional sliding translocation between identified doublets. Three voltage-sensitive functional parameters of the cilium - the inclination (which is noncyclic) and the rates of active sliding and sliding translocation (both of which are cyclic in nature) - are discussed as generating the spatial and temporal properties of the ciliary beat.
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    Effect of metabolic inhibitors on sucrose-induced metaphase spindle elongation and spindle recovery (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 11 (1988), S. 291-302 
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    Keywords: mitosis ; mitotic apparatus ; microtubules ; kinetochores ; metabolic inhibitors ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Hyperosmotic sucrose treatment of metaphase PtK-1 cells has been shown to produce a reversible concentration-dependent effect on spindle elongation linked to a functional alteration in the connection of the chromosome to the spindle (Pover et al.: European Journal of Cell Biology 39:366-372, 1985). Spindle elongation, similar to that which occurs at anaphase B, is thought to be driven by the compression stored in the form of microtubule curvature in the nonkinetochore (nkMT) population of microtubules at metaphase (Snyder et al.: European Journal of Cell Biology 35:62-69, 1984 and 39:373-379, 1985). Addition of metabolic inhibitors to Ham's F-12 salts with deoxyglucose (D/F-12 medium) containing 0.4 M sucrose and 1 mM DNP does not within statistical error affect the rate and extent of sucrose-induced spindle elongation; rates and extents are 60-75% of normal anaphase B motions. Electron microscopic analysis of metaphase cells treated with D/F-12 medium and 0.4 M sucrose with 1 mM DNP demonstrates that spindle microtubules lose curvature and become straight in appearance, typical of microtubule organization in untreated anaphase cells. Sucrose-treated cells released into D/F-12 medium show a rapid reduction in spindle length; however, cells treated with either 0.4 M sucrose or 0.4 M sucrose and 1 mM DNP-containing D/F-12 medium and released into DNP-containing D/F-12 medium do not exhibit a significant reduction in spindle length. Electron microscopic analysis links changes in spindle length with microtubule/kinetochore associations. These data suggest that energy required for the initial phases of spindle elongation during anaphase is preloaded into the mitotic spindle by metaphase and does not require additional energy to be expressed as examined by sucrose-induced spindle elongation in the presence of metabolic inhibitors. Second, energy is required to make or maintain (or both) functional chromosome associations with the spindle as measured by reduction in spindle length following sucrose removal.
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    Structure and mass analysis of 12S and 19S dynein obtained from bull sperm flagella (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 368-374 
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    Keywords: STEM ; polypeptide composition ; ciliary motility ; dynein molecule ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The Brookhaven scanning transmission electron microscpe (STEM) was used to elucidate the structures and masses of 12S and 19S dynein extracted from bull sperm flagella. The 12S particle was a single globular particle with an average mass of 311 ± 10 kdaltons. The 19S dynein particles consisted of two globular heads joined to a common base. The average mass of the 19S particle was 1.6 ± 0.04 × 106 daltons. Thus, with the exception of the larger mass, the bull sperm 19S dynein molecule resembles the two-headed 21S dynein obtained from sea urchin sperm flagella and the 18S dynein obtained from Chlamydomonas with the possibility of a third head giving rise to the 12S particle. The structure, mass and polypeptide composition of bull sperm flagella dynein is compared with outer arm dyneins previously obtained from Chlamydomonas, Tetrahymena, and sea urchin sperm flagella.
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    Flagellar movement of intact and demembranated, reactivated ram spermatozoa (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 375-391 
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    Keywords: axoneme ; cilia ; flagella ; reactivation ; ram sperm ; high speed video microscopy ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The flagellar movement of intact ejaculated ram sperm, and of demembranated models reactivated with ATP, has been studied using high-speed, high-resolution video microscopy.Intact sperm attached to the coverslip by their heads had an average beat frequency of 20.9 Hz and an average wave amplitude of 20.2 μm. There was little difference in the beat frequency or waveform of these sperm and sperm swimming freely near the coverslip or captured by their heads with a micropipette and held far from the coverslip, inducationg that the flagellar waveform of ram sperm is relatively resistant to distorition as a result of immobilization of the head or proximity to a surface. The beat envelope was nearly planar as determined by observations of free-swimming sperm and sperm captured by their head and oriented so they were beating either parallel or perpendicular to the plane of focus.The effect of various conditions for demembranation and reactivation of the sperm were examined. Treatment of sperm with 0.2 % Triton X-100 removed most of their plasma membrane. Under optimal conditions, nearly 100 % of the demembranted sperm reactivated at MgATP2- concentrations ranging from ∼4 μM to ∼20 mM. From ∼ 1 mM to ∼ 10 mM MgATP2-, their beat pattern closely resembled that of intact sperm; beat frequency depended on MgATP2- concentration. Percent motility was maximal between pH 7.5 and 8.0 and decreased sharply below pH 7.0 and avove pH 8.5. The addition of 50 μM cAMP to the reactivation medium had no effect on percent motility or the beat pattern and did not accelerate the initiation of movement.
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    Fluorescence microscopy study of polymorphonuclear leukocyte substrate attached materials (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 1-8 
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    Keywords: substrate attached materials (SAM) ; chemotaxis ; leukocytes ; adherence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We describe a technique to visualize substrate-attached materials (SAM) of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) using the fluorescent lipid analog 1, 1′-dioctadecyl-3,3,3′,3′,-tetramethylindocarbocyanine-perchlorate (DiC18Icc). DiC18Icc was incorporated into the membranes of living cells or SAMs. Since cell preparation does not require fixation, SAMs can be rapidly visualized by fluorescence microscopy. SAMs are generated by subjecting attached cells to a shearing force by rinsing with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). The SAM-labeling protocol identified a membrane compartment as shown by detergent extraction. The SAMs of PMN leukocytes observed with this technique display complex patterns of interconnecting filaments, foci with radiating filaments, and smooth membranous areas with interconnecting filaments. The sensitivity and nondestructive nature of the DiC18Icc-labeling procedure have allowed us to observe filopodia of motile cells. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that locomotion involves a series of attachment and detachment steps. After 60 minutes of locomotion, these trailing filopodia have been measured at lengths up to 100 μm. The amount of membrane associated with these filopodia accounts for roughly 10% of the total membrane are of resting cells. These data set limits for models of membrane flow during chemotaxis.
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    Characterization of villin from the intestinal brush border of the rat, and comparative analysis with avian villin (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 60-72 
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    Keywords: villin ; actin ; rat brush border ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The biochemical properties of villin purified from the brush borders of chicken and rat small intestines were compared, with emphasis on their physical properties and their Ca++-dependent interaction with actin. Like chicken villin, rat villin exists as two isoforms present in equimolar concentrations; the rat isoforms are slightly more acidic than those of chicken villin (6.08 and 6.11 versus 6.26 and 6.34). Rabbit antisera raised against either villin crossreacted with the other one. Like the avian protein, rat villin bundled F-actin at calcium concentrations below 0.1 μM. Above ∼1 μM calcium, it accelerated the rate of actin assembly and restricted filament lengths of F-actin formed either during coassembly with villin or by addition of villin to preformed filaments. The threshold calcium concentration required for effective severing of preformed filaments was approximately tenfold higher than that required for restricting lengths during coassembly. The extent of filament shortening was proportional to the amount of villin present. At a fixed villin concentration, filament length decreased with increasing [Ca++] over a broad range from 10-7-10-4 M. In general, the mean filament lengths and the dispersion about the mean value were lower in samples where filaments were coassembled with villin than when villin was added to preformed filaments.
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    Axonal shortening and the mechanisms of axonal motility (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 48-59 
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    Keywords: axon ; growth cone ; retraction ; taxol ; slow transport ; axonal transport ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Axons in tissue culture retract and shorten if their tips are detached from the substrate. The shortening reaction of the axon involves contractile forces that also arise during normal axonal motility, elongation, and retraction. We studied shortening in axonal segments isolated from their parent axons by transecting the axon between the growth cone and the most distal point of adhesion to the substrate. Within 15-20 minutes after transection, an isolated axonal segment shortened and pulled its tail end toward the growth cone. During the shortening process, long sinusoidal bends arose along the axon. The identical shortening reaction occurs without transection, when the axon tip is detached from the substrate. Pharmacological studies with inhibitors of glycolysis indicate that the shortening mechanisms utilize metabolic energy, presumably ATP. The rate of sinusoidal shortening is similar to both the rate of polymer translocation in the axon by slow axonal transport and the rate of normal axonal elongation. Taxol inhibits the shortening reaction with a similar dose dependence to its inhibition of axonal growth. Together, all these observations suggest that the same basic intracellular motility mechanisms are involved in normal axonal growth, in slow axonal transport, and in the shortening reaction: the intracellular dynamic system that utilizes ATP to generate longitudinal movements of polymers within the axon may be the same mechanism underlying both the retraction and the elongation of the axon.
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    Announcement optical approaches to the dynamics of cellular motility (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 404-405 
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    Subcellular compartmentalization of phosphorylated neurofilament polypeptides in neurons (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 393-403 
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    Keywords: immunocytochemistry ; phosphorylation ; microtubules ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Immunocytochemistry and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis have been used to study the distribution of phosphorylated forms of neurofilament antigens in rat brain. Immunostaining of tissue with an antisera produced against phosphatasesensitive domains of the 200-kilodalton (kd) neurofilament polypeptide showed that phosphorylated forms of this polypeptide were present in virtually all axons and certain somata and dendrites of neurons in different brain regions. Immunoblots of whole brain homogenate or a neurofilament preparation from rat revealed that the affinity-purified anti-200-kd sera used to immunostain tissue labeled the neurofilament-associated 200-kd band in a phosphatase-sensitive manner. Fine structural analysis of this immunoreactivity in tissue showed that whenever the labeled organelle could be identified, it was a microtubule. In contrast, immunoblot analysis of twice-cycled microtubules from porcine brain revealed that microtubules in vitro did not possess the 200-kd antigen that was observed in situ. The results suggest that our antibody recognizes a phosphorylated domain on the neurofilament involved in cross-linking neurofilaments and microtubules, and that in vivo, phosphorylated epitopes of the 200-kd neurofilament polypeptide are capable of associating with microtubules.
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    Intracellular acidification, guanine-nucleotide binding proteins, and cytoskeletal actin (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 1-6 
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    Keywords: actin ; G-protein ; pH ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The addition of propionic acid to rabbit neutrophils causes cell acidification and increases the amount of actin associated with the cytoskeleton. Both responses are rapid, and while the cell acidification is somewhat long-lasting, the increase in cytoskeletal actin is transient. It reaches a maximum value within 15 seconds and then return to the basal level. Unlike fMet-Leu-Phe, however, propionic acid does not cause a rise in the intracellular concentration of free calcium. Pretreatment of the cells with pertusis toxin inhibits the propionic acid-produced increase in cytoskeletal actin but not the decrease in intracellular pH. However, the rate of return to the base line of the cell acidification produced by propionic acid is diminished in cells pretreated with pertussis toxin. On the other hand, both the decrease in intracellular pH and the increase in cytoskeletal actin produced by fMet-Leu-Phe are inhibited by pertussis toxin treatment. The results presented here suggest two important points. First, while cell acidification may trigger directly or indirectly the association of actin with the cytoskeleton, it is certainly not sufficient. Second, a functional guanine-nucleotide regulatory protein is required for stimulated cytoskeletal actin. One or more components of the G-protein and/or their effects on phosphoinositide hydrolysis may increase the number of actin monomers and the availability of preexisting actin filaments to these monomers.
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    Platelet-derived growth factor-induced alterations in vinculin distribution in porcine vascular smooth muscle cells (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 91-105 
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    Keywords: vinculin ; PDGF ; cell growth ; vascular smooth muscle ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Exposure of porcine vascular smooth muscle cells to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF; 18-180 ng/ml) but not epidermal growth factor (EGF; 30ng/ml), somatomedin C (SmC; 30 ng/ml), or insulin (10 μM), results in a rapid, reversible, time- and concentration-dependent disapperance of vinculin staining in adhesion plaques; actin-containing stress fibers also become disrupted following exposure of cells to PDGF. Disapperance of vinculin staining from adhesion plaques is also caused by 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA; 200-400 nM), though the time course of the disapperance of vinculin staining under these conditions takes longer than in cells exposed to PDGF. The PDGF-induced removal of vinculin from adhesion plaques was inhibited in a concentration-dependent fashion by 8-(N, N-diethylamin) octy1-3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate (TMA-8; 0.25-4 μM) and leupepetin (2-300 μM), and by n-α-rosyl-L-lysine chloromethylketone (TLCK; 100 μM) and trifluoperazine (TFP; 2.5 μM). Addition of PDGF to vascular smooth muscle cells caused a rapid, tranient increase in cytosolic free calcium, from a basal resting level of 146 ± 6.9 nM (SEM, n=62) to 414 ± 34 nM (SEM, n=22) as determined using the calcium-sensitive indicator Fura-2 and Digitized Video Microscopy. This increase in cellular calcium preceded the disappearance of vinculin from adhesion plaques and was partially blocked by pretreatment of cells with TMB-8 but not leupeption. This rise in cytosolic free calcium was found to occur in ∼ 80% of the sample population and dispalyed both spatial and temporal subcellular heterogeneity. Exposure of cells to TPA (100 nM) did not result in a change in cytosolic free calcium. Both PDGF (20 ng/ml) and TPA (100 nM) caused cytosolic alkalinization which occurred after PDGF-induced disruption of vinculin from adhesion plaques, as determined using the pH-sensitive indicator BCECF and Digitized Video Microscopy. PDGF stimulated DNA synthesis and vinculin disruption in a similar dose-dependent fashion. Both could be inhibited by leupeptin or TMB-8. These results suggest that 1) exposure of vascular smooth muscle cells to PDGF is associated with the disruption of vinculin from adhesion plaques, 2) PDGF-induced vinculin disruption is regulated by an increase in cytosolic calcium (but not cytosolic alkalinization), and involves proteolysis; 3) activation of protein kinase C also causes vinculin removal from adhesion plaques but by a calcium-independent mechanism, and 4) the cellular response to PDGF-stimulated increases in cytosolic free calcium is heterogeneous. Our data also suggest that cytosolic vinculin distribution is a sensitive indicator of the response of vascular smooth muslce cells to PDGF.
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    Stress fiber reformation after ATP depletion (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 118-129 
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    Keywords: cytoskeleton ; actin ; alpha-actin ; vinuclin ; microtubules ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Flurescently labeled heavy mermoyosin, alpha-actinin, and vinculin were used to localize actin, and vinculin, respectively, in permeabilized and living cells during the process of stress fiber reassembly, which occurred when cells were removed from ATP-depleting medium (20 mM sodium azide and 10 mM 2-deoxyglucose). In 80% of the cells recovering from ATP depletion, small, scattered plaques containing actin, alpha-actinin, and vinculin were replaced by long, thin, periodic fibers within 5 minutes of removal of the inhibitors. These nascent stress fibers grew broader as recovery progressed, until they attained the thickness of stress fibers in control cells. In the other 20% of the cells, the scattered plaques aggregated within 5 minutes of reversal, and almost all the actin, alpha-actinin, and vinculin in the cell became localized in one perinuclear aggregate, with a diameter of approximaterly 15-25 μm. As recovery progressed, all aggregates resembled rings, with diameters that increased at about 0.5 μm/minute and grew to as large as 70 μm in some giant cells. As the size of the rings increased, fibers radiated outward from them and sometimes spanned the diamater of te rings. The shape of the cells did not change during this time. By 1 hour after reversal, the rings were no longer present and all cells had networks of stress fibers. Indirect immunofluorescence techniques used to localize tubulin and vimentin indicated that microtubules and intermediate filaments were not constituents of the rings, and the rings were not closely apposed to the substrate, judging from reflection contrast optics. The rapid rearrangement of attachment plaques into a perinuclear aggregate that spreads radially in the cytoplasm occurs at the same speed as fibroblast and chromosomal movement, but is unlike other types of intracytoplasmic motility.
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    Subcortical rotation in Xenopus eggs: A preliminary study of its mechanochemical basis (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 143-154 
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    Keywords: amphibian egg ; Nile blue stain ; microtubules ; subcortial rotation ; cytoplasmic movement ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The amphibian egg undergoes a 30° rotation of its subcortical contents relative to its surface during the first cell cycle, a displacement of 350 μm in 50 min. This is directly visualized by following the movement of an array of Nile blue (a subcortical stain) spots applied to the egg periphery (Vincent, Oster, and Gerhart: Dev Bio 113:484-500, '86). We have investigated the mechanochemical basis of this unusual cell motility. Subcortical rotation depends on microtubule integrity during its entire course and is insensitive to inhibitors of microfilament assembly. It does not depend on newly synthesized proteins for its operation or timing, and it does not involve calcium-dependent processes. Finally, we show that vegetal fragments of the egg can complete rotation on their own, indicating that mechanochemical components can operate locally in this hemisphere.
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    Cell type-specific association between two types of spectrin and two types of intermediate filaments (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 165-173 
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    Keywords: erythrocytes ; brain ; vimentin ; neurofilaments ; desmin ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We have demonstrated a differential association between two types of spectrin, from erythrocytes and brain, with two types of intermediate filaments, vimentin filaments and neurofilaments. Electron microscopy showed that erythrocyte spectrin promoted the binding of vimentin filaments to red cell inside-out vesicles via lateral associations with the filaments. In vitro binding studies showed that the association of spectrin with vimentin filaments was apparently saturable, increased with temperature, and could be prevented by heat denaturation of the spectrin. Comparisons were made between erythrocyte and brain spectrin binding to both vimentin filaments and neurofilaments. We found that vimentin filaments bound more erythrocyte spectrin than brain spectrin, while neurofilaments bound more brain spectrin than erythrocyte spectrin. Our results show that both erythroid and nonerythroid spectrins are capable of binding to intermediate filaments and that such association may be characterized by differential affinities of the various types of spectrin with the several classes of intermediate filaments present in cells. Our results also suggest a role for both erythroid and nonerythroid spectrins in mediating the association of intermediate filaments with plasma membranes or other cytoskeletal elements.
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    Binding of mammalian brain microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) to insect ovarian microtubules (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 174-181 
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    Keywords: evolutionary conservation ; side-arms ; binding sites ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: In this study we have applied microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) from mammalian brain to both native and reassembled insect ovarian microtubules. Such microtubules, which are normally smooth walled, become decorated with projections similar to those observed when mammalian brain MAPs are added back to assembling or assembled mammalian brain microtubules. The mammalian MAPs were also detected as components of insect microtubules when analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Our observations suggest that mammalian brain MAPs have common binding sites on microtubules from two widely different sources and indicate the degree of evolutionary conservation of such sites.
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    Unity in diversity (1987)
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    Characteristic structures of actin gels induced with hepatic actinogelin or with chicken gizzard alpha-actinin: Implication for their function (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 451-463 
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    Notes: We studied the properties of actinogelin, a Ca2+-regulated actin cross-linking protein isolated from Ehrlich tumor cells or rat liver. Chicken gizzard α-actinin was used as a Ca2+-insensitive control. Actinogelin, which has very high gelation activity under low Ca2+ conditions, was found using electron microscopic or fluorescence studies to induce formation of a characteristic structure in which actin filaments and bundles radiate to (or converge from) all directions from spot-like core structures. A similar structure was induced with actinogelin, even in the presence of 0 7 saturation of tropomyosin. No such structure was detected with actinogelin under high Ca2+ conditions, and only a few were found with gizzard α-actinin. Because reconstituted structures are similar to those observed intracellularly, actinogelin may be important in the formation of similar microfilament organization in the cells. It seems also important that these structures are reconstituted with only two purified protein components, i.e., actinogelin and actin.Immunocompetition studies showed that actinogelin and gizzard α-actinin partially shared antigenicity, and their molecular shape and peptide maps were similar. Their amino acid compositions [Kuo et al., 1982], subunit and domain structures, and binding sites on actin [Mimura and Asano, 1987] are also very similar. Therefore, it is concluded that actinogelin belongs to α-actinin superfamily proteins. Furthermore, the presence of functionally different subfamilies concerned with Ca2+ sensitivy, gelation-efficiency, and others is discussed. Actinogelin, which induces networks of actin filaments, may be classified as high gelation type.
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    Two monoclonal antibodies to actin: One muscle selective and one generally reactive (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 349-362 
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    Keywords: immunofluorescence ; cytoplasmic actins ; muscle actins ; epitope ; isoactins ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Two IgG1, κ monoclonal antibodies (Mab) against actin have been obtained from a fusion in which chicken gizzard actin was used as the immunogen. One Mab, designated B4, shows a preferential reactivity toward enteric smooth muscle actin but also cross-reacts with skeletal, cardiac, and aorta actins on the basis of immunoblots, ELISA assays, and indirect immunofluorescence. However, this antibody does not react with either cytoplasmic actin in any of these assay systems. A second Mab, designated C4, reacts with all six known vertebrate isoactins as well as Dictyostelium discoideum and Physarum polycephalum actins. Thus B4 Mab appears to react with an epitope that is at least partially shared among the muscle actins but not found in cytoplasmic actins, while C4 Mab binds to an antigenic determinant that has been highly conserved among the actins. The binding sites of both Mabs on skeletal actin overlap that of pancreatic DNase I. Both antibodies bind a SV8 proteolytic product comprising the amino-terminal two-thirds of the actin molecule, and their epitopes appear to overlap since C4 can compete for the binding of B4 to skeletal actin. Neither antibody is able to prevent actin polymerization.
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    Analysis of the flagellar bending waves of ejaculated ram sperm (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 261-273 
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    Keywords: spermatozoa ; flagella ; motility ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The variability of flagellar movement, illustrated by the highly heterogenous nature of the ejaculated sperm population of the ram, was analyzed by the use of a stroboscopic technique and an adapted microphotographic 24 × 36 camera system. The multiple-moving-exposures (MME) records give very distinct successive sequences of the flagellar beats and are particularly suitable for the analysis of bend development and propagation along the tail. With this technique, the parameters of the flagellar bending waves of ejaculated ram sperm have been determined. Most of the sperm have planar flagellar beatings; few are rolling under the conditions of observation. The trajectories of the gametes are mostly linear; nevertheless, some have circular paths. The analysis of bending has been focused on two examples for which the difference in the progressiveness ratio was maximum. The circular pathways for ram spermatozoa are linked to an asymmetry between principal and reverse bend probably induced by differences in wave propagation evidenced along the flagellum. A typical sperm flagellar movement may be related either to the conditions of the observations or to some differences in the maturation process of the sperm.
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    Dynamics of behaviour during neuronal morphogenesis in culture (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 250-260 
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    Keywords: time lapse ; neuronal differentiation ; cytoskeleton ; growth cone ; PC12 ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We report a developmental sequence in the type and frequency of behaviours of neurons differentiating in vitro. We characterised these changes with extensive analysis of time-lapse sequence from both the continuing cell line phenochromocytoma PC12 and primary mixed cell culture of cat and mouse central nervous system. PC12 cells activated by nerve growth factor (NGF) differentiate in a uniform and synchronous manner. This allowed the first quantification of changes in different neuron behaviours during morphogenesis.Shortly after NGF activation, PC12 cells are highly labile in morphology and exhibit a large variety of morphological behaviours. During the first week of differentiation, the frequency of these behaviours declines, and gross morphology becomes more stable. The frequency of neurite initiation after 1 week in NGF is one-seventh what it was after 2 days in NGF. Over the same period, neurite retraction declines to one-third, and somal migration ceases altogether. Growthcone activity does not decline during development. These behaviour changes correlate with published data on the differentiation of the neurite cytoskeleton.A qualitatively similar ontogeny was noted in the differentiation of CNS neurons in mixed cell culture. Major differnces occur in the relative timing of changes in behaviours. Mature, stable morphology is not detected in these cultures until 7 weeks in vitro.
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    Masthead (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987) 
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    Microinjected carboxylated beads move predominantly poleward in sea urchin eggs (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 293-301 
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    Keywords: mitosis ; particle motility ; microtubules ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Observations on living mitoic cells have suggested that material in the spindle moves poleward during mitosis. In order to investigate this movement, sea urchin eggs have been microinjected with 0.25-μm diameter carboxylated fluorescent beads. When fluorescent beads were injected into unfertilized Lytechinus variegatus eggs, no motility was detected. When injected into mitotic cells, beads moved to the spindle poles. Individual beads moved rapidly, in a saltory fashion, and followed generally linear paths. Beads appeared to move along astral fibers, were generally excluded from thespindle proper, and accumulated at the spindle poles. Some dispersion of the beads away from the pole was observed as cells completed mitosis, but the majority of beads retained a polar location. After depolymerization of spindle microtubules with nocodazole, some dispersion of beads into the cytoplasm was also observed. Beads moved along taxol-induced astral microtubules and accumulated at astral centers. These observations reveal that negatively chargedbeads accumulate rapidly at mitotic centers, moving toward the minus end of the microtubules. Neither the bidirectional motility of similar beads in interphase cells nor the plus-end-directed bead motility seen in axons was observed in these mitotic cells.
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    In vitro effects of benzodiazepines on ciliogenesis in the quail oviduct (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 333-344 
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    Keywords: basal body migration ; cilia ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Immature oviduct implants from quails stimulated by estrogen to induce ciliogenesis were submitted to the in vitro action of benzodiazepines in organotypic culture. Diazepam and medazepam were added to the culture medium for 24 or 48 hours and tissues were examined by transmission and scanning electron microscopy for alterations in ciliary differentiation.Ciliogenesis was inhibited by both diazepam and medazepam, which affected mainly the migration of the basal bodies. Assembly of basal bodies was achieved normally in the cytoplasm, but their separation from generative complexes and migration toward the apical membrane were prevented. They remained in clusters around a deuteosome or eventually anchored to the close lateral plasma membrane.Furthermore, the drugs affected mature beating cilia, which then appeared lying tangentially to the cell surface. Relation between basal bodies and cortical cytoskeleton seemed to be altered by the drugs, which implies that the bearing of cilia and probably the ciliary beating movement were modified. Mocrovillus development was also altered by the action of these drugs.
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    Identification and characterizaton of a protein associated with the stembody using autoimmune sera from patients with systemic sclerosis (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 360-367 
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    Keywords: spindle ; autoantibody ; CREST ; scleroderma ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: An autoantibody that binds an antigen localized to the stembody of dividing cells has been identified in a patient with systemic sclerosis. Initially, this antigen is associated with the surface of the metaphase chromosomes. At the onset of anaphase the antigen becomes preferentially associated with the forming stembodies. This association is maintained as furrowing progresses during telophase and continues after the intercellular bridge is released from the daughter cells during G-1. Immunoblots indicate that the epitope detected by immunoflurorescence is present on a protein with an apparent molecular weight of 38 kD.
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    Masthead (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988) 
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    Adaptation in the motility response to camp in dictyostelium discoideum (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 9-16 
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    Keywords: adaptation ; cAMP ; cell motility ; chemotaxis ; Dictyostelium discoideum ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: When developing amebae of Dictyostelium discoideum are treated with constant concentrations of cAMP above 10-8 M, the average rate of motility is depressed, with maximum inhibition at roughly 10-6 M. It is demonstrated that shifting the concentration of cAMP from 0 M to concentrations ranging from 10-8 to 10-6 M in a perfusion chamber results in the immediate inhibition of motility. After shifting from 0 M to 10-8 or 10-7 M, the rate of cell motility remains low, then rebounds to a higher level, exhibiting a standard adaptation response. No adaptation is exhibited after a shift from 0 M to 10-6 M, a concentration resulting in maximum inhibition. It is demonstrated that the level of inhibition and the extent of the adaptation period are dependent upon the concentration of cAMP after the shift, and that submaximal inhibition is additive. The characteristics of adaptation in this motility response are very similar to the characteristics of adaptation for the relay system and phosphorylation of the putative cAMP receptor.
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    Actin filament patterns in mouse lens epithelium: A study of the effects of aging, injury, and genetics (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 17-29 
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    Keywords: sequestered actin bundles ; polygonal arrays ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Using mainly fluorescence microscopy after rhodamine-phalloidin staining, the F-actin distribution in the mouse lens epithelium was studied with regard to the effects of age, genetic strain, and mechanical injury.These studies have revealed that aside from its association with the plasma membrane the structural organization of F-actin in the mouse lens epithelium in situ is characterized by two major configurations: (1) a filamentous arrangement in such patterns as stress fibers, polygonal arrays (PAs), and meshworks, and (2) a highly concentrated structure called a sequestered actin bundle (SAB).The aging study indicated that the SAB is a consistent character in C57BL/6 mice from the age of 5 wk on, but not in CF1 mice. The size and shape of the SAB change gradually with age as inferred from two-dimensional measurements. The genetic study on the SAB character using hybrids and congenic strains showed that it is inherited as a Mendelian dominant, probably multigenic mode. Finally, the injury study revealed a structural modification in cells around the wound, including flattening of cells at the edge and extension of processes into the wound space. In the rest of the epithelium, injury amplified membrane infolding and fluorescence of polygonal arrays but diminished the size and fluorescence intensity of SABs. These changes are thought to be correlated with wound repair involving cell division and migration.These studies illustrate the variability in F-actin expression in situ in lens epithelial cells that can be induced by intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
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    Three-dimensional localization and redistribution of F-actin in higher plant mitosis and cell plate formation (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 217-228 
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    Keywords: immunogold ; microtubules ; optical sectioning ; video microscopy ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The distribution of F-actin cables in dividing endosperm cells of a higher plant, Haemanthus, was visualized with the immunogold-silver-enhanced method and compared with the arrangement of immunogold-stained microtubules in the same cells. The three-dimensional distribution of F-actin cables and microtubules during mitosis and cell plate formation was analyzed using ultrathin optical sectioning of whole mounts in polarized light video microscopy. F-actin cables form a loose irregular network in the interphase cytoplasm. Much of this network remains outside of the spindle during mitosis. A few F-actin cables were detected within the spindle. Their pronounced rearrangement during mitosis appears to be related to the presence and growth of microtubule arrays. During prometaphase, actin cables located on the spindle surface and those present within the spindle tend to arrange parallel to the long axis of the spindle. Cables outside the spindle do not reorient, except those at the polar region, where they appear to be compressed by the elongating spindle. Beginning with mid-anaphase, shorter actin cables oriented in various directions accumulate at the equator. Some of them are incorporated into the phragmoplast and cell plate and are gradually fragmented as the cell plate is formed and ages. Actin cables adjacent to microtubule arrays often show a regular punctate staining pattern. Such a pattern is seldom observed in the peripheral cytoplasm, which contains few microtubules. The rearrangement of F-actin cables mimicks the behavior of spindle inclusions, such as starch grains, mitochondria, etc., implying that F-actin is redistributed passively by microtubule growth or microtubule-related transport. Thus F-actin or actomyosin-based motility does not appear to be directly involved in mitosis and cytokinesis in higher plants.
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    Ultrastructure and motion analysis of permeabilized paramecium capable of motility and regulation of motility (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 73-84 
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    Keywords: cilia ; metachronal waves ; electron microscopy ; calcium ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Structural and behavioral features of intact and permeabilized Paramecium tetraurelia have been defined as a basis for study of Ca2+ control of ciliary reversal. Motion analysis of living paramecia shows that all the cells in a population swim forward with gently curving spirals at speeds averaging 369 ± 19 μm/second. Ciliary reversal occurs in 10% of the cell population per second. Living paramecia, quick-fixed for scanning electron microscopy (SEM), show metachronal waves and an effective stroke obliquely toward the posterior end of the cell. Upon treatment with Triton X-100, swimming ceases and both scanning and transmission electron microscopy reveal cilia that uniformly project perpendicularly from the cell surface. Thin sections of these cells indicate that the ciliary, cell, and outer alveolar membranes are greatly disrupted or entirely missing and that the cytoplasm is also disrupted. These permeabilized paramecia can be reactivated and are capable of motility and regulation of motility. Motion analysis of cells reactivated with Mg2+ and ATP in low Ca2+ buffer (pCa7) shows that 71% swim forward in straight or curved paths at speeds averaging 221 ± 20 μm/second. When these cells are quick-fixed for SEM the metachronal wave patterns of living, forward swimming cells reappear. Motion analysis of permeabilized cells reactivated in high Ca2+ buffers (pCa 5.5) shows that 94% swim backward in tight spirals at a velocity averaging 156 ± 7 μm/second. SEM reveals a metachronal wave pattern with an effective stroke toward the anterior region. Although the permeabilized cells do not reverse spontaneously, the pCa response is preserved and the Ca2+ switch remains intact. The ciliary axonemes are largely exposed to the external environment. Therefore, the behavioral responses of these permeabilized cells depend on interaction of Ca2+ with molecules that remain bound to the axonemes throughout the extraction and reactivation procedures.
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    Motility of the spirochete leptospira (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 101-110 
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    Keywords: prokaryotic motility ; periplasmic flagella ; hydrodynamics ; model ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Spirochetes are a group of bacteria with a unique ultrastructure and a fascinating swimming behavior. This article reviews the hydrodynamics of spirochete motility, and examines the motility of the spirochete Leptospira in detail. Models of Leptospira motility are discussed, and future experiments are proposed.The outermost structure of Leptospira is a membrane sheath, and within this sheath are a helically shaped cell cylinder and two periplasmic flagella. One periplasmic flagellum is attached subterminally at either end of the cell cylinder and extends partway down the length of the cell. In swimming cells, each end of the cell may assume either a spiral or a hook shape. Translational cells have the anterior end spiral shaped, and the posterior end hook shaped. In the model of Berg et al., the periplasmic flagella are believed to rotate between the sheath and the cell cylinder. Rotation of the anterior periplasmic flagellum causes the generation of a gyrating spiral-shaped wave. This wave is believed sufficient to propel the cells forward in a low-viscosity medium. The cell cylinder concomitantly rolls around the periplasmic flagella in the opposite direction - which allows the cell to literally screw through a gel-like viscous medium without slippage. This model is presented, and it is contrasted to previous models of Leptospira motility.
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    51-kd protein, a component of microtubule-organizing granules in the mitotic apparatus involved in aster formation in vitro (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 117-128 
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    Keywords: centrosome ; aster-forming activity ; tubulin polymerization ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Mitotic apparatuses (MAs) isolated from sea urchin metaphase eggs were chilled on ice to depolymerize microtubules, homogenized, and incubated with tubulin. This caused formation of many small asters with microtubules focusing on granules which were probably fragments of the centrosome. The aster-forming protein components of the granules in the homogenized MAs were solubilized in 0.5 M KCl containing 50% glycerol. After dialysis against low-ionic-strength buffer solution, proteins congregated to form granular assembly capable of initiating aster formation. Phosphocellulose column chromatography enabled the separation of the aster-forming protein fraction which contained a 51,000 molecular weight protein (51-kd protein) as a major component. The protein fraction possessing the aster-forming activity was also prepared from methaphase whole egg homogenate, and the elution profile of the 51-kd protein on phosphocellulose column also coincided with that of the aster-forming activity. The granular assembly reconstituted from the phosphocellulose fraction formed asters whose microtubules show the same growth rate and length distribution as those of asters reconstructed from the granules in the homogenized MAs. Anti-51-kd protein antibody that was raised in rabbit and affinity-purified stained the center of asters which were reconstructed either from the granules in the homogenized MAs or from the granular assembly reconstituted from the phosphocellulose fraction. These results suggest that the 51-kd protein is a component in the aster-forming activity of the centrosomal component in vitro.
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    Distribution of myosin and relationship to actin organization in cortical and subcortical areas of antibody-labelled, quick-frozen, deep-etched fibroblast cytoskeletons (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 368-380 
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    Keywords: cell motility ; rapid freezing ; cytoskeletal architecture ; immunocytochemistry ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: In this study I describe the ultrastructural distribution of myosin in cortical and subcortical areas of antibody-labelled, quick-frozen fibroblasts. In many cells myosin was present in small variably spaced and sized (0.23-0.39 μm long), nonaligned patches, while in other cells much larger periodically spaced patches of more uniform length (0.27 μm) were found. In all regions of the cytoskeleton myosin was found, primarily on linear bundles of actin filaments running parallel to the cell's long axis.Myosin was absent from single actin filaments, actin Filaments perpendicular to actin bundles aligned with the cell's long axis, and actin filaments, such as geodome vertices and parts of the cortex, which had a complex interwoven appearance. These data indicate that in motile non-muscle cells myosin exerts force only in a unidirectional manner. Recognisable myosin filaments were never observed even in cells incubated either in N-ethylmaleimide or sodium azide. The presence of myosin in, and almost to the very edge of, the cortex suggests that the cellular control of actomyosin based movement is direct and over short-range distances. Large numbers of small cross-linking filaments were found in association with cortical and subcortical actin. Their relationship to myosin and overall actin geometry is discussed.
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    Cytochalasin B-induced redistribution of cytokeratin filaments in PtK1 cells (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 347-360 
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    Keywords: cytochalasin ; actin ; microtubules ; immunofluorescence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Indirect immunofluorescence demonstrated a dramatic reorganization of cytokeratin filaments produced by cytochalasin B (CB) treatment of PtK1 cells. Much of the normal cytokeratin network became arranged into a latticework consisting of bundles of cytokeratin filaments that radiated from, and interconnected, distinct foci, Electron microscopy showed foci to be dense granular regions through which bundles of cytokeratin filaments looped. Composition of the foci included actin, myosin, and alpha-actinin, as shown by labeling with rhodamine phalloidin or specific antisera. Simultaneous treatment with CB and colchicine was not required for lattice formation, but did produce more extensive development than did CB alone. In cells treated only with CB, the microtubule network remained intact, even in regions of extensive lattice formation. These results contrast sharply with those of Knapp et al (J. Cell Biol. 97:1788 [1983b]), who found lattice formation dependent upon simultaneous CB and colchicine treatment. Time-course and dose-response studies of CB treatment showed lattice formation to follow disruption of stress fibers and the concentration of actin into distinct patches that marked the location of lattice foci. Overall results suggest a structural association between microfilaments and cytokeratin filaments that produces the lattice pattern upon CB-induced disruption of stress fibers. Lattice formation was not limited to a specific cell-cycle stage, since G1, G2, and M cells displayed the lattice. Treatment of cells with dihydro-CB and experiments with enucleated cells showed that lattice formation was dependent upon neither the inhibition of sugar transport nor the nuclear extrusion effects of CB.
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    Monoclonal antibodies against plant proteins recognise animal intermediate filaments (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 312-323 
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    Keywords: plant cytoskeleton ; Chlamydomonas ; anti-IFA ; onion root tip cells ; immunoflurescence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Four monoclonal antibodies were raised against polypetides present in a highsalt detergent-insoluble fraction from cells of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy of fibroblasts and epithelial cells grown in culture using these plant antibodies revealed staining arrays identical to those obtained with well characterised antibodies to animal intermediate filaments. Immunoflurescence microscopy of Chlamydomonas with these monoclonal antibodies and a monoclonal antibody that recognises all animal intermediate filaments (anti-IFA) gave a diffuse, patchy cytoplasmic staining pattern. Both the plant antibodies and anti-IFA stained interphase onion root tip cells in a diffuse perinuclear pattern. In metaphase through to telophase, the labelling patterns colocalised with those of microtubules. Labelling of the phragmoplast was also detected but not staining of the preprophase band. On Western blots of various animal cell lines and tissues, all the antibodies labelled known intermediate filament proteins. On Western blots of whole Chlamydomonas proteins, all the antiboides labelled a broad band in the 57,000 Mr range, and three antibodies labelled bands around 66,000 and 140,000 Mr but with varibale intensites. On Western blots of whole onion root tip proteins, all the antibodies labelled 50,0000 Mr (two to three bands) polypetides and a diffuse and around 60,000 Mr and three of the antibodies also labelled several polypeptides in the 90,000-200,000 Mr range. The consistent labelling of these different bands by several different monoclonal antibodies recognising animal intermediate filaments makes these polypetides putative plant intermediate filament proteins.
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    Determination of the average shape of flagellar bends: A gradient curvature model (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 312-324 
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    Keywords: flagella ; sea urchin spermatozoa ; waveform analysis ; Ciona spermatozoa ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Data obtained by manual digitization of photographs of flagellar bending waves have been analyzed by determining size parameters for the bends by least-squares fitting of a model waveform. These parameters were then used to normalize the data so that the average shape of the bends could be determined. Best fits were obtained with a model waveform derived from the constant curvature waveforms used previously but with provision for a linear change in curvature across the central region of the bend-the gradient curvature model (GCM). The central regions of the GCM bending waves are separated by transition regions with length determined by a parameter called the truncation factor (FT). Fitting the GCM to sine-generated bending waves give optimal fit when FT = 0.34. Fitting the GCM to four different samples of flagellar bending waves gave best fits with values of FT ranging from 0.17 for ATP-reactivated Lytechinus spermatozoa beating at approximately 10 Hz to 0.32 for live spermatozoa of Arbacia. The difference between the Arbacia waveforms and a sine-generated waveform is therefore very small, but a sine-generated waveform lacks the degree of freedom represented by FT that is required to fit other waveforms optimally.The residual differences between the waveform data and optimal GCM waveforms were averaged and found to be small. In most cases, the curvature in the central region of the optimal GCM decreased in magnitude towards the tip of the flagellum; however, this slope was highly variable and sometimes positive. Significant variations in both this slope and FT were found in individual bends as they propagated along a flagellum.
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    Video motion analysis of mitotic events in living cells of the fungus fusarium solani (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 325-336 
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    Keywords: anaphase ; aster ; mitosis ; motility ; spindle ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: An earlier, laser microbeam study produced evidence that, in Fusarium solani, extranuclear polar forces function at anaphase B of mitosis to pull apart the incipient daughter nuclei, whereas the central spindle functions primarily to limit the rate at which they separate. To elucidate further the various dynamics of mitotic anaphase, 8-14 mitoses in hyphae of F. solani were analyzed at 0.5-2.0-sec intervals using high-resolution, digitally processed, videotaped sequences. The spindle growth rate, although fluctuating frequently, averaged 0.6 μm/min during metaphase, increased to 3.6 μm/min during anaphase A and was maximal at 6.1 μm/min during anaphase B. Commonly, chromosomes migrated poleward during anaphase A at fluctuating rates, the average rate being an unprecedented 7.5 μm/min. During anaphase the mitotic apparatus migrated to and fro in the hyphae at rates of 3-15 μm/min, an apparent effect of opposing, fluctuating and typically unequal cytoplasmic forces applied to the two spindle poles. Thus, the molecular mechanisms underlying the various anaphase movements in F. solani do not operate entirely smoothly and uniformly. Accelerated growth of the central spindle is temporally associated with anaphase A and the development of asters. Thus, chromosome disjunction may allow the polar forces to increase the rate of spindle elongation. Microtubule dynamics and motor molecules appear to be adequate to account for the observed rates of mitotic movements.
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    The cytoskeletal microtubular system of some naked dinoflagellates (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 9 (1988), S. 361-374 
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    Keywords: microtubular cytoskeleton ; Dinoflagellates ; immunofluorescence ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The cytoskeletal microtubule system has been studied in six species of unarmoured Dinoflagellates using immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. Several structures have been detected and described: (1) a subpellicular layer of microtubules, constituting the microtubular cytoskeleton, running singly or in bundles from the anterior part of the cell to the posterior; (2) a feeding apparatus, containing a ribbon of microtubules, which corresponds to a small peduncle in some species and is simply represented by a cytostome in some other species; and (3) the longitudinal flagellum that runs in a long intracytoplasmic pocket before becoming free at the extremity of the sulcus. A thorough study of the organization of the microtubular structures in a wide spectrum of Dinoflagellates is a prerequisite for understanding the evolutionary history of the group.
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    High hydrostatic pressure effects in vivo: Changes in cell morphology, microtubule assembly, and actin organization (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 380-390 
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    Keywords: stress fiber ; cytoskeleton ; microvilli ; tubulin ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We present the first study of the changes in the assembly and organization of actin filaments and microtubules that occur in epithelial cells subjected to the hydrostatic pressures of the deep sea. Interphase BSC-1 epithelial cells were pressurized at physiological temperature and fixed while under pressure. Changes in cell morphology and cytoskeletal organization were followed over a range of pressures from 1 to 610 atm. At atmospheric pressure, cells were flat and well attached. Exposure of cells to pressures of 290 atm or greater caused cell rounding and retraction from the substrate. This response became more pronounced with increased pressure, but the degree of response varied within the cell population in the pressure range of 290-400 atm, Microtubule assembly was not noticeably affected by pressures up to 290 atm, but by 320 atm, few microtubules remained. Most actin stress fibers completely disappeared by 290 atm. High pressure did not simply induce the overall depolymerization of actin filaments for, concurrent with cell rounding, the number of visible microvilli present on the cell surface increased dramatically. These effects of high pressure were reversible. Cells re-established their typical morphology, microtubule arrays appeared normal, and stress fibers reformed after approximately 1 hour at atmospheric pressure. High pressure may disrupt the normal assembly of microtubules and actin filaments by affecting the cellular regulatory mechanisms that control cytological changes during the transition from interphase into mitosis.
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    Involvement of myxamoebal fragmin in the Ca2+-induced reorganization of the microfilamentous cytoskeleton in flagellates of Physarum polycephalum (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 410-419 
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    Keywords: calcium ; Ca2+ ; shape change ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: When flagellates of Physarum polycephalum were treated with Triton X-100 and more than 10-5 M Ca2+, the microfilamentous cytoskeleton disintegrated, as seen by staining with rhodamine-phalloidin, and myxamoebal fragmin became associated with the Triton-insoluble cytoskeleton as demonstrated by immunofluorescence microscopy and immunoblotting. The association of myxamoebal fragmin with the cytoskeleton was reversed by the subsequent addition of excess EGTA. When flagellates were permeabilized in the absence of Ca2+, myxamoebal fragmin did not associate with the cytoskeleton and diffused out of the cells. Subsequent treatment of these cells with Ca2+ was ineffective in inducing either the association of myxamoebal fragmin with the cytoskeleton or the disintegration of the microfilamentous cytoskeleton. However, treatment of these permeabilized flagellates with 10 μg/ml purified myxamoebal fragmin and 1 mM Ca2+ caused the disintegration of the microfilaments. Therefore, we conclude that myxamoebal fragmin participates in the Ca2+-induced disintegration of the microfilamentous cytoskeleton in these permeabilized cells. Rapid cooling of flagellates caused the reversible association of myxamoebal fragmin with the Triton-insoluble cytoskeleton in vivo. Thus myxamoebal fragmin may also participate in the reorganization of the microfilamentous cytoskeleton induced in vivo by the cold treatment.
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    Colocalisation of acetylated microtubules, glial filaments, and mitochondria in astrocytes in vitro (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 438-449 
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    Keywords: tyrosinated microtubules ; organelle distribution/transport ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We have recently shown that acetylated α-tubulin containing microtubules (acety1-MTs; labeled by antibody 6-11B-1) constitute a cold-stable subset of the microtubule network of nonneuronal cells in rat primary forebrain cultures [Cambray-Deakin and Burgoyne: Cell Motil. 8(3):284-291, 1987b]. In contrast, tyrosinated α-tubulin containing MTs (tyr-MTs; labeled by antibody YL1/2) are cold-labile. Here we have examined the distribution of acety1-MTs and tyr-MTs in cultures of newborn rat forebrain astrocytes and simultaneously investigated the distribution of mitochondria and glial filaments. In double-label immunofluorescence experiments a marked colocalisation of acetyl-MTs and glial filament bundles was observed. Tyr-MTs did not show a similar colocalisation with glial filament bundles. Furthermore, the distribution of mitochondria closely followed that of the acetyl-MT and glial filament bundles. When cells were exposed to short-term (30-min) treatments with MT-disrupting agents such as colchicine and nocodazole, the tyr-MT network was removed but the distributions of acetyl-MTs, glial filaments, and mitochondria were unchanged. Increased exposure to colchicine (9-16 hr) caused a progressive disruption of the acetyl-MTs and the collapse of glial filaments and mitochondria to the perinuclear region. These results suggest that acetyl-MTs and glial filaments but not tyr-MTs may be involved in the intracellular transport of organelles and/or in the control of their cytoplasmic distribution.
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    Cultured cell extracts support organelle movement on microtubules in vitro (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 482-495 
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    Keywords: organelle motility ; kinesin ; cytoplasmic dynein ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Directed movements of organelles have been observed in a variety of cultured cells. To study the regulation and molecular basis of intracellular organelle motility, we have prepared extracts from cultured chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF cells) which support the movement of membranous organelles along microtubules. The velocity, frequency and characteristics of organelle movements in vitro were similar to those within intact cells. Organelles and extract-coated anionic beads moved predominantly (80%) toward the minus ends of microtubules that had been regrown from centrosomes, corresponding to retrograde translocation. Similar microtubule-dependent organelle movements were observed in extracts prepared from other cultured cells (African green monkey kidney and 3T3 cells).Organelle motility was ATP and microtubule dependent. The frequency of organelle movement was inhibited by acidic (pH〈7) or alkaline (pH〉8) solutions, high ionic strength ([KCl] = 0.1 M), and the chelation of free magnesium ions. Treatment of the extracts with adenylyl imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP, 7 mM), sodium orthovanadate (vanadate; Na3VO4, 20 μM), or N-ethylmaleimide (NEM, 2 mM) blocked all organelle motility. The decoration of microtubules with organelles was observed in the presence of AMP-PNP or vanadate. Motility was not affected by cytochalasin D (2 μM) or cAMP (1 mM). Kinesin (Mr= 116,000), an anterograde microtubule-based motor, was partially purified from the CEF extract by microtubule affinity purification in the presence of AMP-PNP, and was able to drive the movement of microtubule on glass coverslips. A similar preparation made in the presence of vanadate contained a different subset of proteins and did not support motility. These results demonstrate that intracellular organelle motility can be reproduced in vitro and provide the basis for investigating the roles of individual molecular components involved in the organelle motor complex.
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    Protease inhibitor and substrates block motility and microtubule sliding of sea urchin and carp spermatozoa (1988)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 10 (1988), S. 518-527 
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    Keywords: 9 + 2 flagellar beating ; aprotinin ; axonemes ; protease inhibitor ; sperm motility ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The effects of protease substrates and inhibitor, which have been previously shown to inhibit mammalian sperm motility (de Lamirande, E., and Gagnon, C. [1986] J. Cell Biol. 102:1378-1383), were investigated using reactivated sea urchin and carp spermatozoa as models of “9 + 2” flagella. Aprotinin in the 2 to 20 μM range interfered with sperm motility by reducing both the beat frequency and the percentage of motile spermatozoa. These inhibitory effects of aprotinin were reversible either by dilution or by the addition of high concentrations of MgATP to the incubation medium. Protease substrates with a lys-ester bond, such as N-α-benzyloxycarbonyl-lys thiobenzyl ester (BLT), also affected motility, but in the 0.1 to 0.5 mM range. As with aprotinin, both the flagellar beat frequency and the percentage of motile spermatozoa were partially and completely decreased, respectively. Analysis of the beat frequencies as a function of MgATP concentration in the presence and absence of 6 μM aprotinin indicated that this protease inhibitor affects sperm motility by decreasing the maximal flagellar beat frequency rather than by altering the axoneme's apparent Km for MgATP. Furthermore, aprotinin concentrations that blocked flagellar reactivation completely inhibited the sliding of microtubules from trypsinized axonemes. Basic proteins or polypeptides of pI close to that of aprotinin (10.3) were also potent inhibitors of the reactivation of motility. However, the characteristics of their inhibition of flagellar beat frequencies and reversibility of their effects suggested that they might be acting on sites different from those sensitive to aprotinin. The inhibitory effects of protease inhibitor and substrates, as well as results of experiments showing the absolute requirement of an intact ester bond for the inhibitory action of protease substrates, suggest that the involvement of a protease in the reactivation of 9 + 2 flagellar beating might be considered as a possible mechanism to explain aprotinin and BLT actions.
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    Contractility of the spasmoneme in glycerinated Vorticella stalk induced by various divalent metal and lanthanide ions (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 39-45 
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    Keywords: divalent metal ions ; lanthanide ions ; calcium contraction ; spasmoneme ; Vorticella ; stalk ; contractile regulation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The glycerinated stalks of the peritrich ciliate, Vorticella, can contract helically and reversibly on the addition of not only Ca2+ but also other divalent or trivalent cations having ionic radii not far from 1 Å. In order to investigate the stalk contraction quantitatively in the absence of Ca2+-chelators, we developed a method to eliminate contaminating Ca2+ and other metal ions in KC1 and pHbuffer solutions by using a Ca2+-and heavy metal ion-specific ion exchange resin (Eporas MX-2) Thus, it was possible to measure the relationship between the fractional stalk length of Vorticella and the free concentration of alkaline earth metal, transition metal, and lanthanide ions in the 0.1 M KC1 and buffer (pH 6.8) solutions. Among these ions, Ca2+, Nd3+, and Eu3+ (having ionic radii of about 1 Å) had the highest affinity for the contractile element in the spasmoneme. As the concentration of lanthanide ions (except Nd3+ and Eu3+) is increased, the Vorticella stalk contracts abruptly at a threshold level; this means that the Hill's parameter is very high, probably more than 6. The results of these experiments and of the co-mixtures of Ca2+ and Tb3+ suggest that a contractile element in the spasmoneme contains both contractile Ca2+-binding and regulatory Ca2+-binding sites.
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    Spindle function in the green alga Mougeotia: Absence of anaphase A correlates with postmitotic nuclear migration (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 68-77 
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    Notes: In the filamentous green alga Mougeotia, each daughter nucleus formed by mitosis is then rapidly moved along the recently divided daughter cell to the central cleavage developing in the chloroplast. This movement is brought about by a cone-shaped array of microtubules (MTs) that ensheath the daughter nucleus and are focused upon a small region, presumably a microtubule-organising center (MTOC). Movement is completed when the MTOC locates and then resides in the chloroplast cleavage, drawing the nucleus into this position.The mitotic spindle is open with initially broad, ill-defined poles. Anaphase A contributes minimally, if at all, to chromosome separation since the half spindles remain about the same length during anaphase and telophase. Thus, anaphase is accommodated and probably achieved by spindle elongation; the interzonal MTs also generate a rudimentary phragmoplast at the ingrowing cleavage furrow. The persistent polar MTs become directly transformed into the cone-shaped array and initiate nuclear movement during early telophase. Various closely or distantly related green algae show this trait of persistent polar MTs. We conclude that this trait has allowed some species to evolve a motility system based directly on the capabilities of astral MTs, for generating the postmitotic nuclear movement essential for the restoration of the interphase cell organization.
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    Isolation and characterization of sea urchin egg spectrin: Calcium modulation of the spectrin-actin interaction (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 304-314 
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    Keywords: spectrin-like ; actin-binding protein ; Ca++-regulated ; cytoskeleton ; eggs ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Sea urchin egg spectrin has been purified from a homogenate of unfertilized Strongylocentrotus purpuratus eggs using standard biochemical procedures. SDS-PAGE analysis of the molecule revealed a closely spaced, high molecular weight doublet at 237/234 kDa (present in an equimolar ratio). Rotary shadowed images of egg spectrin revealed a double-stranded, elongate, flexible rod-shaped contour, measuring 210 nm in length and ∼ 4-8 nm in width. Additionally, this molecule is shown to be immunologically related to avian erythroid spectrin, since it cross-reacts with antibodies prepared against the chicken erythrocyte α-spectrin/240 kDa subunit. The interaction of egg spectrin with actin was examined by sedimentation and falling-ball viscometry assays. The binding and cross linking properties of spectrin to actin demonstrate a unique Ca++-sensitive regulation at micromolar Ca++ concentrations. This observation provides new insight into the way Ca++ may regulate spectrin-actin interactions in vitro and further suggests possible structural and modulatory roles for egg spectrin in the developing sea urchin embryo.
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    Cordycepin disrupts the microtubule networks and arrests nil 8 hamster fibroblasts at the onset of mitosis (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 337-346 
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    Keywords: cordycepin ; microtubules ; mitosis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The nucleoside analogue 3′-deoxyadenosine (cordycepin) arrests dividing cells at the onset of mitosis in prometaphase. The microtubules in the arrested prometaphase cells depolymerize to two small asters. A minimum of 80 μg/ml cordycepin or 20 μg/ml cordycepin in combination with 2 μg/ml of the deaminase inhibitor erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl) adenosine (EHNA) lo inhibit its degradation is required to see these effects. Analysis of cell extracts by high-pressure liquid chromatography indicates that cordycepin enters the cells rapidly and is phosphorylated to 3′-dATP. The intracellular concentration rises almost linearly from 0.7 mM after 15 min to 7 mM by 210 min. Concomitantly the ATP concentration shows a rapid drop from the 4 mM present in controls. However, the direct reduction of ATP levels does not mimic the same rapid effects of cordycepin on the microtubules. In addition, similar effects are not produced by a variety of other adenosine analogues with alterations in the 2′ and 3′ ribose positions. Although other pharmacological reagents arrest cells at the onset of mitosis, cordycepin is unusual because of the collapse of the microtubule networks to two small asters that radiate from the microtubule-organizing center. 3′-dATP can replace the requirement for ATP or GTP in the vitro polymerization of microtubules from microtubule protein: however, at limiting concentrations of nucleotide it requires approximately two times the concentration of 3′-dATP as ATP to support an equivalent level of microtubule polymerization. This suggests that the effects of cordycepin in vivo may be the result of the depletion of cellular ATP pools and the altered ability of 3′dATP to substitute for ATP-dependent reactions. Current experiments are testing this hypothesis.
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    Axonal tubulin and microtubules: Morphologic evidence for stable regions on axonal microtubules (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 155-164 
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    Keywords: cold stability ; cytoskeleton ; depolymerization ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Biochemical studies indicate that axonal tubulin is composed of at least two distinct pools that differ in cold solubility and biochmical composition [Brady et al: J. Cell Biol. 99:1716-1724]. To determine the morphologic correlate of cold-insoluble tubulin, segemnts of rat optic nerves were exposed to a series of in vitro experimental conditions that affect microtubules (MTs), including cold, podophyllotoxin (PT), triflupromazine (TFP), and taxol, and then examined by electron microscopy. Longitudinal sections of control axons showed MTs oriented parallel to the long axis of the axons. Axond exposed to Cold, PT, and TFP showed short segments of MTs in association with cytoskeletal disarray. Morphometric studies were used to distinguish between a simple malorientation of MTs (undulation or zigzags in their course) and the loss of labile segments of MTs, leaving the stable portions behind. The lengths of MT segments were measured in longitudinal sections, and the numbers of MTs were determined in the cross sections. All MT segment-length histograms showed a unimodal distribution. Cold and PT produced a simple shift of the control histogram to the shorter length MTs. In cross sections the numbers of MTs in cold- and PT-exposed axons were significantly decreased, indicating that the presence of short segments of MTs. Taxol, an agent that promotes MT assembly, reversed the cold effect partially and resulted in increases in both MT segment lenght and number. These studies indicate that stable MT segments are portions of longer MTs containing both stable and labile regions. Furthermore, these findings are consistent with the hypothesis that cold-insoluble tubulin functions as a transportable MT-organizing complex in the axon.
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    A critical role for the polarization of membrane recycling in cell motility (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 8 (1987), S. 182-189 
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    Keywords: Golgi apparatus ; microtubule-organizing center ; G-glycoprotein ; cytochalasin D ; monensin ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: This paper is concerned with the proposition that the insertion of membrane mass into the leading edge of a motile cell plays a critical role in directed cell migration. We show by immunofluorescence, with cells transfected with a cloned cDNA encoding the G-protein of a temperature-sensitive mutant of vesicular stomatitis virus, that the first cell surface appearance of the G-protein is indeed at the leading edge of the motile cell. Two drugs capable of inhibiting directed cell migration, cytochalasin D and monensin, appear to function independently, the former by affecting the actin cytoskeleton without affecting the polarized insertion of membrane mass into the cell surface and the latter by abrogating membrane mass insertion without affecting the actin cytoskeleton.
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    Evidence that MAP-2 may be involved in pigment granule transport in squirrel fish erythrophores (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 221-234 
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    Keywords: α-cytomatrix ; monoclonal antibodies ; immnuolabeling ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We have demonstrated the presence of MAP-2 in squirrel fish erythrophores using SDS-PAGE, immunobolt, and immunoprecipitation techniques. The monoclonal antibodies used (AP-9, -13, -14) were raised against distinct antigenic sites on Chinese hamster brain MAP-2. Immunoprecipitation studies demonstrated that all three antibodies bind a 300 K protein found in crude cell extracts and in partially purified MAP fractions isolated from erythrophores of the squirrel fish Holocentrus rufus. Immunofluorescent studies confirmed that the 300 K protein was present in cultured erythrophores. Studies of cells induced to aggregate and disperse their pigment granules revealed that the 300 K protein comigrated with the pigment, suggesting that the 300 K protein may constitute part of the “α-cytomatrix” involved in pigment translocations.
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    Patterns of tubulin isotype synthesis and usage during mitotic spindle morphogenesis in Physarum (1987)
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 272-281 
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    Keywords: intranuclear mitosis ; spindle formation ; cell cycle ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Tubulin synthesis in the naturally synchronous plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a markedly periodic event restricted to the late G2 period of the cell cycle. Mitosis in the plasmodium is intranuclear, and there are no cytoplasmic microtubules at any stage of the cell cycle. We have combined a biochemical investigation of the synthesis of the plasmodial tubulin isotypes and their participation in the mitotic spindle with a microscopic study (immunofluorescence) of the development of spindle microtubules throughout the cell cycle.We have shown that all four tubulin isotypes identified in the plasmodium (α1, α2, β1 and β2) are present in the mitotic spindle. The stoichiometry of isotype usage in the mitotic spindle generally reflects the overall abundance of isotypes in the plasmodium as a whole: β2 〉 α1 〉 α2 〉 β1. We have also shown that tubulins synthesized in the G2 period of one cell cycle can be incorporated into the spindles of the immediately ensuing mitosis and have sufficient biological longevity to allow participation in the mitotic divisions of future cell cycles. Thus, the phenomenon of periodic tubulin synthesis does not reflect a restricted use of tubulin to the cell cycle in which it was synthesized. The major polymerization of tubulin in the nucleus occurred less than 30 min before metaphase. A novel tubulin-containing structure was, however, present in the nucleus approximately 60 min before metaphase. Polymerized tubulin is rapidly removed from the nucleus following nucleokinesis.
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    Movements of intracellular particles in undifferentiated amebae of Dictyostelium discoideum (1987)
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 7 (1987), S. 258-271 
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    Keywords: video and fluorescence microscopy ; saltatory particle movements ; cytoskeleton ; microtubules ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: We recorded live, undifferentiated amebae of Dictynstelium discoideum by video microscopy and analyzed the behavior of cytoplasmic particles and granules. Cytoplasmic streaming and saltatory movements are the two major types of particle movements that occur in interphase amebae. Saltatory movements predominated in an area around the nucleus-associated body (NAB) and many were radial toward or away from it, the velocity being very similar in both directions. Some saltations were simple forward movements, and others were complex to-and-fro movements with as many as seven turnabouts. For a given leg of movement the velocity was not uniform along the path. Small particles (〈 1 μm) moved faster (X = 2.8 μm/s) than large (∼ 1 μm; X = 2.1 μm/s) and very large (〉 1 μm; X = 1.4 μm/s) particles, but the smallest particles were visible only in the running image and could not be analyzed. Ultrastructurally, saltating particles are digestive vacuoles and vesicles of various sizes, appearances, and contents, which are numerous particularly in the vicinity of the NAB. Several lines of evidence pointed to a role of microtubules (MTs) in saltatory particle movements. Composites of particle tracks corresponded closely to MT arrays visualized by immunofluorescence. No saltations occurred in mitotic amebae that lack cytoplasmic MTs, but the movements resumed toward the end of division, concurreduced with the rebuilding of the complex of cytoplasmic MTs. Nocodazole reduced and eventually slopped saltatory movements over a period of 3 h, when aberrant MT patterns were the rule. Saltations in slime mold amebae may be an eye-catching feature of intracellular transport functioning in endo- and exocytosis in the shuffling of vesicles containing factors involved in ameboid movement, and in the transduction of external signals to the cell center.
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