ISSN:
0886-1544
Keywords:
nuclear actin
;
nuclear myosin
;
nuclear shell
;
nuclear shape
;
nuclear matrix
;
silk gland
;
nuclear structure
;
Life and Medical Sciences
;
Cell & Developmental Biology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
The branched nuclei from silk gland cells of larvae of Calpodes ethlius label with antibodies to actin and myosin and with rhodaminyl-phalloin, which is specific for f-actin. Optical sectioning localizes this actin and myosin to the nuclear periphery. Residual nuclear-associated fractions prepared from these cells contain sheets of nuclear lamina-like structures that bind heavy meromyosin and gold-tagged antibodies to actin and myosin. The results suggest that both actin and myosin, or a myosin-like protein, are components of a layer at the nucleocytoplasmic boundary that we call the nuclear shell. The nuclear shell appears to be associated with the nuclear envelope and may correspond to a zone on the cytoplasmic face of the envelope seen in electron micrographs of unextracted cells. The residual nuclear-associated fraction has a unique isoform of actin (43 kD, pl 6.45) that might allow the nuclei to associate with an actin network structurally and developmentally distinct from that of the cytoplasm. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Additional Material:
14 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cm.970230302
