人上皮细胞角蛋白纤维结构转化的分析

用0℃冷冻处理2—3 h,一些PcaSE-1和BEL-7404细胞的角蛋白纤维能部分地转化成凝聚颗粒,但在HeLa 和CNE 细胞中不发生这种角蛋白纤维结构转化。当回复温度到37℃15—30 min 时,PcaSE-1 和BEL-7404细胞的这种结构转化能快速回复。相反,在HeLa 和CNE 细胞有丝分裂时,角蛋白纤维能转化成凝聚颗粒,但PcaSE-1细胞和BEL-7404细胞的角蛋白纤维网始终维持纤维状态,且围绕纺锤体分布。上述结果表明:两类上皮细胞角蛋白纤维结构的转化似由不同因子所引起。我们的结果还指出:(1)单用秋水仙素或用秋水仙素和细胞松弛素D 合并处理PcaSE-1细胞不能引起角蛋白纤维凝聚。但经秋水仙素解聚微管后,会增强细胞对冷处理的凝聚反应。(2)冷处理时角蛋白纤维凝聚的形成与细胞是否具有两套不同的中间纤维无关。(3)予先用TritonX-100抽提细胞,角蛋白纤维在冷冻后不能转化成凝聚颗粒。(4)冷冻处理引起的结构转化可能是某些上皮细胞系的角蛋白纤维的一种特殊性质。     

上皮细胞分裂过程中中等纤维的变化

应用制备的血清抗体,采用免疫细胞化学方法观察了两株培养上皮细胞的分裂过程中IF的动态变化过程。实验结果显示,在上皮细胞分裂过程中,IF形态结构及空间分布发生了显著变化,不同细胞之间存在差异,分裂的Vero细胞中角蛋白纤维和波形纤维都维持纤维形态,围绕分裂器形成纤维网罩或纤维束环,随着细胞分裂的进行,IF网的空间组织结构和外观发生动态变化;分裂的HeLa细胞中,角蛋白纤维和波形纤维广泛重组形成颗粒状胞质小体,分裂结束后重建IF网。实验结果表明,IF变化具有细胞周期依赖性和一定的细胞特异性。本文对IF在细胞分裂过程中的功能意义作了讨论。     

人体肝癌细胞和HeLa细胞中等纤维的比较研究

本文用兔抗角蛋白抗体、豚鼠抗波形纤维蛋白抗体和抗角蛋白单抗AE1的间接免疫荧光抗体法比较了两个人体肝癌细胞系(BEL-7402和BEL-7404)和HeLa细胞中等纤维的分布式样,同时用SDS-PAGE法分析了上述细胞的中等纤维抽提物的多肽组成。结果表明:三种上皮细胞均含有两套不同类型的中等纤维系统:角蛋白纤维和波形纤维。但是,人体肝癌细胞和HeLa细胞的中等纤维分布式样和角蛋白多肽组成均有明显的差别。其中最明显的差别是HeLa细胞具有丰富的桥粒-张力纤维复合物和分子量为40 kd的角蛋白多肽,而在两个人体肝癌细胞系中看不到。     

微管解聚酶驱动蛋白家族成员KIF2A研究进展

驱动蛋白家族成员2A(KIF2A)是一种能够与微管相互作用的蛋白,它参与了细胞内物质运输、细胞迁移、细胞形态改变,以及有丝分裂细胞纺锤体动力学等重要的细胞活动。近年来研究发现,KIF2A凭借其独特的微管解聚能力,对神经元中神经突的生长以及细胞有丝分裂中染色体的运动起着重要的调节作用。将主要对KIF2A在脊椎动物神经元发育和细胞有丝分裂中所行使的作用和功能进行综述。     

培养的正常细胞和肿瘤细胞内微管变化的研究——Ⅱ.肿瘤细胞内微管的免疫荧光细胞化学观察

本实验用管蛋白抗体间接免疫荧光细胞化学方法,观察了我国建株的人胃低分化粘液腺癌MGc 80-3,人胃腺癌SGC-7901,人鼻咽癌上皮样细胞CNE,人食管癌上皮细胞ECa-109,人肺鳞癌LTEP-78,人啼腺癌LTEP-a_1,人肺小细胞癌LTEP-p七株癌细胞和HeLa细胞,小鼠S_(180)-V肉瘤细胞的微管形态。与人的正常包皮成纤维细胞和食管上皮细胞内精细的CMTC结构对比,肿瘤细胞间期的胞质微管普遍有减少或缺如的现象。参考Brin-kley对微管免疫荧光染色图形的分型方法,我们将观察的各种微管染色图形归纳为四种类型,比较各种细胞群体内微管类型的分布。肿瘤细胞群体内多数为微管缺如型和稀疏型,未见典型的丰满型,而正常细胞群体内都是丰满型。同时,肿瘤细胞的MTOC区面积明显增大。分裂期的肿瘤细胞内,有丝分裂器纺锤体微管荧光形态与正常细胞的没有差别。本文对肿瘤细胞间期胞质微管减少和缺如以及MTOC区明显增大的现象及其可能的意义进行了讨论,认为这是癌变机制研究中值得深入探讨的重要课题之一。     

家蚕生存素基因在BmN4细胞有丝分裂中的功能分析

【目的】阐明生存素基因在家蚕Bombyx mori BmN4细胞有丝分裂中的功能。【方法】qRT PCR分析家蚕生存素基因BmSurvivin在家蚕5龄第3天幼虫不同组织(丝腺、中肠、马氏管、精巢、卵巢、脂肪体、皮细胞层和表皮)中的表达量;构建pIZT/V5-His-BmSurvivin-GFP (BG)融合载体并转染BmN4细胞,以免疫荧光标记检测BmSurvivin和第10位丝氨酸(Ser10)磷酸化的组蛋白H3(H3Ser10ph)在BmN4细胞有丝分裂分裂不同时期的定位。【结果】BmSurvivin在家蚕5龄第3天幼虫马氏管中表达量最高,其次是在丝腺和中肠中。成功构建pIZT/V5-His-BmSurvivin-GFP载体。免疫荧光结果显示,在BmN4细胞间期核中可以看到明显的GFP信号,涵盖了细胞核和细胞质区域,指示BmSurvivin的定位;随着细胞进入分裂期,GFP信号指示BmSurvivin与染色质共定位,待细胞形成明显的双取向时在纺锤体区域也可以看到GFP信号;后期随着姐妹染色单体分开,GFP信号指示BmSurvivin定位在染色质及胞质分裂区;末期随着两个新的子细胞形成GFP信号指示BmSurvivin仅定位在胞质分裂区。H3Ser10ph定位在BmN4细胞前中期染色质凝缩处,至中期信号最强,与整条染色体重合,后期信号消失。【结论】BmSurvivin与有丝分裂周期中染色质和纺锤体的动态变化相关。     

影响动物细胞有丝分裂方向的因素应力纤维在纺锤体定位中的作用

细胞的有丝分裂与细胞的增殖、分化及胚胎发育、组织器官形成、损伤组织的修复和疾病的发生有关.各种物理因素、细胞所处的微环境(包括细胞外基质、细胞粘附)等,以及胞内的多种信号因子均能对细胞的有丝分裂方向产生影响.大量文献表明,应力纤维的排列为有丝分裂中心粒分离和定位提供轨道,最终影响纺锤体和有丝分裂的定向.本实验室的micro-pattern和静态单轴拉伸应变实验进一步提示了应力纤维的排布方式是影响有丝分裂方向的重要因素.本文围绕着应力纤维的排布对有丝分裂方向的影响这一研究观点,综述分析了整合素介导的细胞外粘附-黏着斑的组装-应力纤维的排布-有丝分裂纺锤体定向等一系列影响贴壁哺乳动物细胞有丝分裂定向的过程.并根据酵母模型,对哺乳动物细胞有丝分裂定向过程的分子机制进行了介绍;在该过程中肌球蛋白、动力蛋白和kar9等蛋白质起到重要作用.     

谈谈遗传学中若干基本问题

八、细胞有丝分裂与细胞离体培养 人们对细胞分裂的认识,开始时只看到它有“直接分裂”与“间接分裂”。直接分裂的例子再没有比原生动物纤毛虫的大核(营养核)的分裂为最典型的了。间接分裂后改称为有丝分裂,因为这种分裂总伴随着纺锤体的形成,而纺锤体上的微管束在光学显微镜下观察固定后的切片标本都呈显为丝线状,由此这种分裂就     

NuMA 的分布和功能

核有丝分裂器蛋白(Nuclear Mitotic Apparatus Protein,NuMA)是一种在间期细胞核内有大量表达的大分子蛋白。NuMA是微管聚合因子,能使微管锚定于纺锤体极。在细胞有丝分裂,减数分裂过程中对纺锤体的形成和形态的维持发挥重要作用。     

esiRNA分析人源驱动蛋白MKLP1在胞质分裂中的功能

为探讨人源驱动蛋白MKLP1在有丝分裂和胞质分裂中的作用,以E.coliRNaseⅢ制备MKLP1的3′UTResiRNA转染HeLa细胞,通过定量RTPCR、Western印迹检测MKLP1esiRNA对MKLP1基因的沉默效率.再利用FACS分析、免疫荧光染色和活细胞成像分析检测MKLP1表达缺失后在有丝分裂和胞质分裂不同时期的细胞形态学、细胞分裂指数、细胞百分数,动态观察有丝分裂和胞质分裂期间的表型改变,以系统分析MKLP1的功能.最后通过挽救实验验证MKLP1esiRNA的作用特异性.实验显示MKLP1esiRNA转染HeLa细胞能够有效地特异性消除MKLP1的表达,并被异位表达的MKLP1所挽救.MKLP1蛋白在有丝分裂后期和末期前期位于纺锤体中间带,在末期后期和胞质分裂的最后阶段集中于中间体的中心处.MKLP1表达缺失使中间体正确形成和胞质分裂的完成受到严重抑制,造成大量双多核细胞堆积.结果表明,MKLP1在胞质分裂中间体形成和有丝分裂末期前期向后期过渡过程中起关键作用,是纺锤体中间体中间带相关蛋白,为胞质分裂所必需.     

中等纤维在几种人体上皮细胞有丝分裂过程中的行为

By indirect immunofluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy, we studied the behavior of intermediate filaments during mitosis in three human epithelial cell lines, derived from normal epidermis (PcaSE-1, from a cancer patient), stratified epithelium (CNE, from nasopharyngeal carcinoma) and simple epithelium (SPC-A-1 from lung adenocarcinoma) respectively. CNE cells and SPC-A-1 cells express two different intermediate filament systems; keratin filaments and vimentin filaments, but PcaSE-1 cells only express keratin filaments. The keratin filament system in PcaSE-1 cells remained intact and encircled the developing mitotic spindle as the cells entered mitosis. In contrast, in CNE cells and SPC-A-1 cells, keratin filaments appeared to disassemble into amorphous cytoplasmic bodies during mitosis. However, their vimentin filaments remained morphologically intact throughout mitosis. We propose; (1) The disassembly of keratin filaments in mitotic epithelial cells is more or less associated with the degree of their cell malignancy rather than with the abundance of keratin filaments in interphase. (2) Intermediate filaments may be involved in the positioning and/or centering of the spindle during mitosis. (3) The possible function of vimentin filament system in CNE cells is positioning and orientation of chromosomes.     

上皮细胞分裂过程中中等纤维的变化

Immunofluorescence microscopy was used to follow the rearrangement of keratin filaments and vimentin filaments during mitosis in Vero and HeLa cell lines. The experiment results showed that the three dimensional organization and structure of intermediate filaments changed drastically during mitosis. The behavior of intermediate filaments was different in these two epithelial cell lines. In mitotic Vero cells the keratin filaments and vimentin filaments maintained their filamentous structure and formed a cage around the mitotic apparatus. In mitotic HeLa cells the keratin filaments and vimentin filaments reorganized extensively and formed granular cytoplasmic bodies. The ratio of granular cytoplasmic body formation changed in different mitotic phase. The interphase intermediate filament network was reconstructed after mitosis. It is proposed that the state of intermediate filament network in these cells is cell cycle-dependent and intermediate filaments may have some skeletal role in mitosis.     

Intermediate filament proteins in nonfilamentous structures: Transient disintegration and inclusion of subunit proteins in granular aggregates

The intermediate filament cytoskeleton of cultured bovine kidney epithelial cells and human HeLa cells changes dramatically during mitosis. The bundles of cytokeratin and vimentin filaments progressively unravel into protofilament-like threads of 2–4 nm diameter, and intermediate filament protein is included in numerous, variously sized (2–15 μm) spheroidal aggregates containing densely stained granular particles of 5–16 nm diameter. We describe these mitotic bodies in intact cells and in isolated cytoskeletons. In metaphase to anaphase of normal mitosis and after colcemid arrest of mitotic stages, many cells contain all their detectable cytokeratin and vimentin material in the form of such spheroidal aggregate bodies, whereas in other mitotic cells such bodies occur simultaneously with bundles of residual intermediate filaments. In telophase, the extended normal arrays of intermediate filament bundles are gradually reestablished. We find that vimentin and cytokeratins can be organized in structures other than intermediate filaments. Thus, at least during mitosis of some cell types, factors occur that promote unraveling of intermediate filaments into protofilament-like threads and organization of intermediate filament proteins into distinct granules that form large aggregate bodies. Some cells, at least certain epithelial and carcinoma cells, may contain factors effective in structural modulation and reorganization of intermediate filaments.     

Intermediate filaments of the vimentin-type and the cytokeratin-type are distributed differently during mitosis

Immunofluorescence microscopy has been used to follow the rearrangement of intermediate-sized filaments during mitosis in rat kangaroo PtK2 cells. These epithelial cells express two different intermediate filament systems: the keratin-related tonofilament-like arrays typical of epithelial cells, and the vimentin-type filaments characteristic of mesenchymal cells in vivo, and of many established cell lines. The two filament systems do not appear to depolymerize extensively during mitosis, but show differences in their organization and display which may indicate different functions. The most striking rearrangements have been seen with the vimentin filaments, and in particular in prometaphase a transient cage-like structure of vimentin fibers surrounding the developing spindle is formed. In metaphase, this cage disappears, and vimentin fibers are found in an elliptical band surrounding the chromosomes and the interzone. In telophase, these bands separate, usually breaking first on the side closest to where the cleavage furrow has started to form. Double label experiments with tubulin and vimentin antibodies have indicated that the microtubules and the chromosomes are contained within the thick crescents of vimentin filaments and suggest that the vimentin intermediate filaments may be involved in the orientation of the spindle and/or the chromosomes during mitosis. In contrast, extensive arrays of cytokeratin filaments are present throughout mitosis on the substrate-attached side of the cell and also in other cellular areas, although they are usually not present in the spindle region. Thus the cytokeratin filaments probably continue to play a cytoskeletal role during mitosis and may be responsible for the flat shape that certain epithelial cells such as PtK2 cells continue to maintain during mitosis.     

Vimentin and keratin intermediate filament systems in cultured PtK2 epithelial cells are interrelated.

Certain cultured epithelial cells contain separate vimentin and keratin-type intermediate filament networks. The intracellular injection of monoclonal antibodies directed against either vimentin or keratin filaments into PtK2 cultured epithelial cells specifically disrupted the organization of both filament types. Neither antibody had any effect when injected into cells which, while containing vimentin or keratin filaments, lacked the specific filament type which that antibody recognized. These experiments suggest that keratin and vimentin filament networks are associated in some way with one another.     

Morphology, behavior, and interaction of cultured epithelial cells after the antibody-induced disruption of keratin filament organization

The organization of intermediate filaments in cultured epithelial cells was rapidly and radically affected by intracellularly injected monoclonal antikeratin filament antibodies. Different antibodies had different effects, ranging from an apparent splaying apart of keratin filament bundles to the complete disruption of the keratin filament network. Antibodies were detectable within cells for more than four days after injection. The antibody-induced disruption of keratin filament organization had no light-microscopically discernible effect on microfilament or microtubule organization, cellular morphology, mitosis, the integrity of epithelial sheets, mitotic rate, or cellular reintegration after mitosis. Cell-to-cell adhesion junctions survived keratin filament disruption. However, antibody injected into a keratinocyte-derived cell line, rich in desmosomes, brought on a superfasciculation of keratin filament bundles, which appeared to pull desmosomal junctions together, suggesting that desmosomes can move in the plane of the plasma membrane and may only be 'fixed' by their anchoring to the cytoplasmic filament network. Our observations suggest that keratin filaments are not involved in the establishment or maintenance of cell shape in cultured cells.     

Microinjection of monoclonal antibodies specific for one intermediate filament protein in cells containing multiple keratins allow insight into the composition of particular 10 nm filaments

Monoclonal antibodies specific for vimentin (V9), keratin 7 (CK 7) and keratin 18 (CK5) have been microinjected into three human epithelial cell lines: HeLa, MCF-7 and RT-4. The effect of the injection on other keratin polypeptides and vimentin filaments has been observed by double label immunofluorescence and in some instances by immunoelectron microscopy using gold labels of different sizes. Microinjection of V9 into HeLa cells causes the vimentin to collapse into a perinuclear cap leaving the keratin filaments unaffected. Injection of CK5 does not affect the vimentin filaments but disrupts the keratin filaments revealing keratin aggregates similar to those seen in some epithelial cell lines during mitosis. The keratin aggregates obtained after microinjection in HeLa contain the keratins 8 and 18 and probably also other keratins, as no residual keratin filaments are observed with a keratin polyclonal antibody of broad specificity. Aggregates in mitotic HeLa cells contain at least the keratins 7, 8, and 18. In MCF-7 cells keratins 8, 18, and 19 are observed in the aggregates seen 3 h after microinjection which, however, show a different morphology from those seen in HeLa cells. In MCF-7 cells a new keratin filament is built within 6 h after the injection which is composed mainly of keratin 8 and 19. The antibody-complexed keratin 18 remains in spherical aggregates of different size. The results suggest that in HeLa cells vimentin and keratin form independent networks, and that individual 10 nm filaments in epithelial cell lines can contain more than two keratins.     

Disruption of the keratin filament network during epithelial cell division

The behaviour of keratin filaments during cell division was examined in a wide range of epithelial lines from several species. Almost half of them show keratin disruption as described previously: by immunofluorescence, filaments are replaced during mitosis by a 'speckled' pattern of discrete cytoplasmic dots. In the electron microscope these ' speckles ' are seen as granules around the cell periphery, just below the actin cortical mesh, with no detectable 10 nm filament structure inside them and no keratin filament bundles in the rest of the cytoplasm. A time course of the filament reorganization was constructed from double immunofluorescence data; filaments are disrupted in prophase, and the filament network is intact again by cytokinesis. The phenomenon is restricted to cells rich in keratin filaments, such as keratinocytes; it is unrelated to the co-existence of vimentin in many of these cells, and vimentin is generally maintained as filaments while the keratin is restructured. Some resistance to the effect may be conferred by an extended cycle time. Filament reorganization takes place within minutes, so that a reversible mechanism seems more likely than one involving de novo protein synthesis, at this metabolically quiet stage of the cell cycle.