• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Evidence for anaphase pulling forces during C. elegans meiosis
  • Beteiligte: Danlasky, Brennan M.; Panzica, Michelle T.; McNally, Karen P.; Vargas, Elizabeth; Bailey, Cynthia; Li, Wenzhe; Gong, Ting; Fishman, Elizabeth S.; Jiang, Xueer; McNally, Francis J.
  • Erschienen: Rockefeller University Press, 2020
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Cell Biology, 219 (2020) 12
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202005179
  • ISSN: 0021-9525; 1540-8140
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  • Beschreibung: Anaphase chromosome movement is thought to be mediated by pulling forces generated by end-on attachment of microtubules to the outer face of kinetochores. However, it has been suggested that during C. elegans female meiosis, anaphase is mediated by a kinetochore-independent pushing mechanism with microtubules only attached to the inner face of segregating chromosomes. We found that the kinetochore proteins KNL-1 and KNL-3 are required for preanaphase chromosome stretching, suggesting a role in pulling forces. In the absence of KNL-1,3, pairs of homologous chromosomes did not separate and did not move toward a spindle pole. Instead, each homolog pair moved together with the same spindle pole during anaphase B spindle elongation. Two masses of chromatin thus ended up at opposite spindle poles, giving the appearance of successful anaphase.
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