The differential expression of lamin epitopes during mouse spermatogenesis

The presence of lamin proteins in mouse spermatogenic cells has been examined by using an anti-lamin AC and an anti-lamin B antisera which recognize somatic lamins A and C, and somatic lamin B, respectively. Anti-lamin B binds to the nuclear periphery of all cell types examined, including Sertoli cells, primitive type A spermatogonia, preleptotene, leptotene, zygotene and pachytene spermatocytes, and round spermatids. In sperm nuclei, the antigenic determinants are localized to a narrow domain of the nucleus. However, after removing the perinuclear theca, anti-lamin B localizes to the entire nuclear periphery in a punctate pattern, suggesting that it is binding to determinants previously covered by the theca constituents. On immunoblots anti-lamin B reacts with a ～ 68 kD polypeptide in all germ cells and, to a lesser extent, with four additional polypeptides present only in meiotic and post-meiotic nuclear matrices. Anti-lamin AC also reacts with the perinuclear region of the somatic cells in the testes, in particular, those of the interstitium and also the Sertoli cells of the seminiferous epithelium. In contrast to anti-lamin B, anti-lamin AC does not bind to the germ cells at any stage of spermatogenesis. In addition, nuclear matrix proteins from isolated spermatogenic cells do not bind anti-lamin AC on immunoblots, suggesting the lack of reactivity is not due to the masking of any antigenic sites. These data demonstrate that germ cells contain lamin B throughout spermatogenesis, even during meiosis and spermiogenesis when the nuclear periphery lacks a distinct fibrous lamina. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

棉铃虫单粒包埋型核型多角体病毒(HaSNPV)复制的研究——Ⅰ.细胞病理学和病毒复制的一些特性

本文报道了棉铃虫单粒包埋型核型多角体病毒(Heliothis armigera single nucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus, HaSNPV)在棉铃虫及棉铃虫蛹卵巢细胞系SFE-HA-8212中的复制。HaSNPV的复制和其他的核型多角体病毒大体相符,复制过程也可分为形成出芽型病毒与形成包埋型病毒这两个时相。研究了影响病毒在细胞中复制的诸因素,包括病毒感染复数、细胞接种密度和细胞生长阶段等。在适宜的条件下平均每细胞可生产出芽型病毒14PFU,多角体24个。生成的病毒具有感染力。这些表明SFE-HA-8212细胞可供HaSNPV有效复制。同时,作为细胞群体该细胞系对HaSNPV感染的反应并非均一,其中有89.65±21.4％的感染细胞释放病毒,但仅有37.85±6.7％的细胞形成多角体。表明HaSNPV的感染并不一定导致形成多角体,在大部分感染细胞中病毒复制进行到产生病毒粒子就停止了。初步讨论了这种不均一性的原因。     

两株蓖麻蚕核型多角体病毒DNA同源性的研究

两株不同来源的蓖麻蚕核型多角体病毒(ArscsNPV和ArNPV)经提纯后,使用SDS—苯酚抽提病毒核酸,并使用限制性内切酶EcoRI,BamHI酶解后,用分子杂交方法与缺口平移标记的ArscsNPV-DNA探针杂交,分析了两株蓖麻蚕NPV病毒核酸的同源性。EcoRI酶解的ArNPV-DNA产生8个片段,其中5个片段能与ArscsNPV-DNA探针杂交。BamHI酶解ArNPV-DNA产生7个片段,其中6个片段能与ArscsNPV-DNA探针杂交。结果表明:两株蓖麻蚕NPV之间病毒核酸具有很高的同源性。使用斑点杂交方法分析了ArscsNPV与ArNPV,柞蚕NPV及家蚕NPV之间的核酸同源性,结果表明:ArscsNPV与ArNPV,柞蚕NPV具有同源性。而与家蚕NPV无核酸同源性。     

Cell division in caffeine-induced binucleate protonemal cells ofAdiantum. II. Formation of the preprophase band and cell division in centrifuged and non-centrifuged cells

Organization of microtubules (MTs) in relation to the behavior of nuclei was examined in dividing binucleate cells ofAdiantum capillus-veneris L. To induce binucleate cells, caffeine, an inhibitor of formation of the cell plate, was applied at 4 mM to synchronously dividing protonemal cells during cytokinesis (Murata and Wada 1993). Formation of the preprophase band (PPB) during the next cell cycle was examined in non-centrifuged and centrifuged cells. The two nuclei were separated or associated with one another in both non-centrifuged and centrifuged cells, although the location of the nuclei in the cylindrical protonemal cells was different (Murata and Wada 1993). Irrespective of centrifugation, a single PPB was formed around the nuclei in cells with associated nuclei. Two PPBs were formed in cells with separated nuclei in centrifuged cells. Patterns of mitosis and cytokinesis varied, depending on the location of the PPB and the distribution of the nuclei. The role of the nucleus in formation of the PPB is discussed.     

Chloroplast division in cultured cells of the hornwortAnthoceros punctatus

Using cultured cells of the hornwortAnthoceros punctatus, the change in the relative chloroplast DNA content in each stage of chloroplast division was investigated to clarify the relationship between the division cycle of a chloroplast and a cell nucleus. Samples of cultured cells were stained with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and then observed with an epifluorescence microscope and a chromosome image analyzing system (CHIAS). A chloropiast in cultured cells duplicated DNA with an increase in size. When a chloroplast began to divide, it was constricted in the middle, taking a dumbbell shape, and then divided into two daughter chloroplasts. In cultured cells of this species, the pattern of quantitative change of chloroplast DNA, that is, the DNA replication pattern of chloroplasts, corresponded to that of cell nuclear DNA in mitosis.     

细胞膜脂质流动性的不均一性与细胞分裂动力学的关系

细胞腊脂流动性在不同类属细胞存在着差异,其差异的程度取决于细胞的生理和生化特性。正常淋巴细胞、肺腺癌、肺鳞癌细胞以及结核细胞膜脂流动发生 分别为２．５１７±０．２６７、２２．５５７±３．７７１,３２．８７５±９．７０９和４．０２６±０．７２２。细胞分裂动力学与膜脂质流动性有关系。细胞分裂及其程度是膜脂质流动性差异的物质基础,同时并受细胞膜脂质的组成,脂蛋白生化以及外界因素的ｐＨ、Ｃａ＾２＋等影响,     

鼠兔核质杂交胚胎早期发育的研究

细胞核移植技术已被证明是研究发育中核质相互关系的非常重要的手段之一,电融合技术也是近十年发展起来的新型细胞融合技术。本实验运用这两项技术,进行了鼠、兔目间核质杂交实验,小鼠8-细胞核在激活的兔去核卵母细胞中,发生了染色体超前凝聚及核膨胀,融合卵移植到小鼠输卵管4.5天后,冲洗出,有5.4%的重构卵发育到囊胚期,通过染色体检查,囊胚细胞中均为小鼠染色体,其中一个囊胚为正常小鼠核型(2 n=40,XX)。通过本实验,我们认为:鼠兔远缘核质杂交胚胎的早期发育是可能的。     

Effect of exogenous gibberellin A4/7 on tracheid production, longitudinal growth and the levels of indole‐3‐acetic acid and gibberellins A4, A7 and A9 in the terminal shoot of Pinus sylvestris seedlings

Synchronously dividing cultures of the unicellular green alga Scenedesmus obtusiusculus were cultivated for 24 or 70 h in medium high (1000 μM) or low (60 μM) in phosphorus. Aliquots of AlCl₃ (0, 37, 74, 111, 148, 185, or 222 μmol) were added daily to 1 l cell suspension at the end of the cell division phase. Algae were also grown in media with different pH, adjusted with HCl, in the absence of AlCl₃.
Effects of Al on cell metabolism vary with the intracellular Al concentration and with the concentration of Al available per cell. When the concentration of phosphorus is low, internal concentrations of Al are high and the chlorophyll content and the net dry matter production per cell increase, whereas the photosynthesis and the cell division are increased. Presence of Al in a low P medium decreases the pH of the medium down to 4.5. There are only small effects of Al in the presence of P, due to precipitation of most of the Al with P in the medium.
Despite the Al-induced decrease of the pH of the culture medium, effects caused by Al cannot be explained as a pH effect. Instead, the Al effect may, at least to some extent, be related to a decrease in availability of P in the metabolism, due to formation of aluminium phosphate inside the cell.     

Protoplasts as tools in cell biology

Studies of plant protoplasts using both fluorescent dyes and electron dense probes have demonstrated endocytosis in plants. Ultrastructural work with soybean protoplasts using cationized ferritin (CF) revealed an endocytotic pathway from coated pits at the plasma membrane to coated vesicles, the partially coated reticulum, Golgi bodies, multivesicular bodies and finally the vacuole. Endocytosis may be responsible for membrane retrieval from the cell surface or degradation of elicitors or toxins during host-pathogen interactions. Immunofluorescence studies of dividing plant protoplasts have provided new information about the preprophase band (PPB) of microtubules and the shape of spindles. Studies of PPBs in soybean protoplast cultures permitted detailed examination of PPB development and an assessment of the usefulness of the PPB index for identifying morphogenic cultures. In multinucleate protoplasts the size and number of PPBs were apparently not controlled by nuclear number. Research with conifer protoplasts resulted in the discovery of new features of gymnosperm spindles.