On the mechanism of anaphase spindle elongation in Diatoma vulgare.
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- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 74 (2), 377-388
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.74.2.377
Abstract
Central spindles from 5 dividing cells (1 metaphase, 3 anaphase and 1 telophase) of D. vulgare were reconstructed from serial sections. Each spindle is made up of 2 half spindles that are composed of polar microtubules. A small percentage of continuous microtubules and free microtubules are present in every stage except telophase. The half spindles interdigitate at the midregion of the central spindle, forming an overlap zone where the microtubules from one pole intermingle with those of the other. At metaphase the overlap zone is extensive, but as elongation proceeds, the spindle poles move apart and the length of the overlap decreases because fewer microtubules are long enough to reach from the pole to the zone of interdigitation. At telophase, few tubules are long enough to overlap at the midregion. Concurrent with the decrease in the length of the overlap zone is an increase in the staining density of the intermicrotubule matrix at the same region. These morphological changes are explained by assuming some mechanochemical interaction between microtubules in the overlap zone which results in a sliding apart of the 2 half spindles.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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