Measuring Mitotic Spindle and Microtubule Dynamics in Marine Embryos and Non-model Organisms.
Confocal live imaging
Histone purification
Marine embryos
Microtubule dynamics
Mitotic spindle
Non-model organisms
Tubulin labelling
Journal
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
ISSN: 1940-6029
Titre abrégé: Methods Mol Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9214969
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2024
2024
Historique:
medline:
23
2
2024
pubmed:
23
2
2024
entrez:
23
2
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
During eukaryotic cell division a microtubule-based structure, the mitotic spindle, aligns and segregates chromosomes between daughter cells. Understanding how this cellular structure is assembled and coordinated in space and in time requires measuring microtubule dynamics and visualizing spindle assembly with high temporal and spatial resolution. Visualization is often achieved by the introduction and the detection of molecular probes and fluorescence microscopy. Microtubules and mitotic spindles are highly conserved across eukaryotes; however, several technical limitations have restricted these investigations to only a few species. The ability to monitor microtubule and chromosome choreography in a wide range of species is fundamental to reveal conserved mechanisms or unravel unconventional strategies that certain forms of life have developed to ensure faithful partitioning of chromosomes during cell division. Here, we describe a technique based on injection of purified proteins that enables the visualization of microtubules and chromosomes with a high contrast in several divergent marine embryos. We also provide analysis methods and tools to extract microtubule dynamics and monitor spindle assembly. These techniques can be adapted to a wide variety of species in order to measure microtubule dynamics and spindle assembly kinetics when genetic tools are not available or in parallel to the development of such techniques in non-model organisms.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38393477
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3557-5_12
doi:
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Journal Article
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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