Indirect immunofluorescent staining of the microtubules in interphase and mitotic amoebae of the myxomycetePhysarum polycephalum |
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Authors: | A. Lemoine L. Mir M. Wright |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratoire de Bactériologie et d'Immunologie de la Faculté des Scieiences Pharmacequtiques, Unniversité Paul Sabatier, Toulouse;(2) Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie Fondamentales, CNRS, 205 route de Narbonne, F-31400 Toulouse, France |
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Abstract: | Summary The microtubules ofPhysarum amoebae have been decorated with rat antibodies against yeast tubulin. The indirect fluorescent staining observed in interphase amoebae and in flagellated amoebae is consistent with the three-dimensional reconstructions previously deduced from electron microscopic studies. Mitotic amoebae exhibit a pattern of fluorescence which is similar to that exhibited by mammalian cells and is consistent with the previous electron microscopic studies, except that we also observe pole-pole microtubule fibers during metaphase and anaphase and the presence of a typical midbody during cytokinesis. The various types of tripolar mitosis which are observed suggest that there is a regulatory mechanism allowing the formation of pseudo-bipolar mitotic apparatuses in amoebae possessing more than two mitotic centers during mitosis. The mitotic center, located in the middle of the centrosphere, is not fluorescent after staining of the monoasters induced with taxol suggesting the absence of tubulin in the mitotic center. |
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Keywords: | Aster Immunofluorescence Mitosis Myxomycetes Physarum Taxol Tubulin |
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