四细胞杂交克隆的NORs活性和均染区的巨染色体

通过聚乙二醇使3个小鼠细胞与1个中国仓鼠骨髓细胞融合,获得四细胞杂交克隆。在第6世代,该杂种细胞含有100条小鼠染色体和5条仓鼠染色体。本文报道在杂种细胞中双亲NORs活性均受抑制,不仅73.2％的仓鼠NORs活性被抑制,而且还有18.3％的小鼠NORs失去了活性。由于在杂种细胞中,仓鼠第3号染色体上的NORs活性仍保留它原来的91.2％,因此我们的结果表明:不同染色体上18s和28s rRNA基因的转录活性可有明显的差异,这可能与它们所在的染色体结构有关。我们首次报道了杂种细胞中所出现的均染色区巨染色体,并对这条巨染色体进行了G-带、C-带和Ag-NORs的分析。对这条巨染色体与18s和28srRNA基因扩增的关系进行了初步讨论。     

哺乳动物姐妹染色单体互换检测化学物质诱变性及同Ames氏法相比较

1973年,Latt用哺乳动物细胞在含有5-溴脱氧尿嘧啶核苷(Brdu)的培养液中接连进行两次有丝分裂,然后用荧光染料染色,使有丝分裂中期染色体的一条染色单体荧光强,另一条染色单体荧光弱,并检出了两条姐妹染色单体之间的互换(姐妹染色单体互换简称SCE)。翌年,Parry 和Wolff 以及Korenberg 等用     

荧光显微镜观察大蒜油对腹水癌细胞的影响

用吖啶橙染色,荧光显微镜观察大蒜油对—S180,昆明小鼠,U14 C57BL/6J小鼠和L1210DBA小鼠的癌细胞作用的影响,结果表明大蒜油有直接破坏癌细胞的DNA,RNA和分裂中期染色体的作用。给药后2—6小时作用最强,12小时后癌细胞数逐渐恢复,因此给药间隔不应超过12小时。我们研究证实大蒜油有明显的抗癌作用,为临床应用提供有力的依据。     

中国仓鼠肺细胞双份染色体及其DNA分子的交换重组

艾菲的咔啉(aphidicolin)能抑制真核生物细胞核内的a-多聚酶,同时还能诱导中国仓鼠细胞核内DNA分子的内复制,由此形成的双份染色体经5-溴脱氧尿苷(BrdU)标记,单股BrdU替换的染色单体总是位于双份染色体的内侧,而双股BrdU替换的染色单体总是位于双份染色体的外侧。DNA分子在内复制的过程中,经交换重组,表现在双份染色体上为姐妹染色单体内的交换和非姐妹染色单体间的交换。双份染色体中的4条染色单体在有丝分裂中前期,从三维空间构型变为平面构型时,在引力和张力的相互作用下,致使染色单体在交换处发生扭曲,成形染色单体间的交叉,从而使有直接亲缘关系的染色单体仍成对联系在一起呈规则分布状态。     

小麦染色体轴结构的观察

对普通小麦 ( Triticum aestivum L.)中期染色体进行常规制片银染的结果显示 ,染色体中存在着染色深的轴结构 ,每个染色单体一条 ,轴在有些部位似乎是螺旋的。研究结果对染色体轴结构的真实性提供了证据     

植物姊妹染色单体区分染色的简易方法

姊妹染色单体区分染色(SCD)是七十年代中期发展起来的染色体处理技术,因为它涉及了细胞动力学、细胞周期、染色体半保留复制、染色体“单线说”以及染色体畸变等一系列的细胞生物学理论问题,此外还能用于分析姊妹染色单体互换(SCE)频率,来检测诱变因素和致癌物质,所以有关SCD的实验技术可作为细胞生物学实验课的更新内容。本文介绍植物     

薄片牡蛎的核型及18S-28S核糖体rRNA基因的染色体定位

以薄片牡蛎(Dendostrea folium)成体鳃组织为材料制备有丝分裂中期染色体标本,对其染色体核型进行了分析,并运用荧光原位杂交技术(FISH)将18S-28S核糖体RNA基因定位于中期染色体上。FISH探针是通过PCR扩增介于18S-28S rRNA基因之间的ITS和5.8S rRNA基因序列,并在PCR扩增过程中掺入了Biotin-11-dUTP进行生物素标记。结果显示,薄片牡蛎的单倍染色体数目为n=10,全部为中部着丝粒染色体。与大多数已知巨蛎属牡蛎的染色体核型相似。ITS探针在薄片牡蛎中期分裂体相上产生两簇FISH信号,分别杂交于2号染色体短臂的近端粒区域。本研究首次报道了薄片牡蛎的中期染色体核型以及18S-28S核糖体RNA基因在染色体上的定位。     

大蒜中期染色体内的核糖核蛋白物质

研究了大蒜（Ａｌｌｉｕｍ ｓａｔｉｖｕｍ Ｌ．）中期染色体的超微结构和ＲＮＰ物质。常规染色表明,大部分染色体内部有低电子密度区,有的染色体中低电子密度区域较大而似孔洞。银染结果也证明了有大小不等的孔洞存在。Ｂｅｒｎｈａｒｄ 染色显示,在染色体周边和染色体内部都有ＲＮＰ分布。用ＮａＯＨ 处理证明了Ｂｅｒｎｈａｒｄ 染色法所显示的深染区确实含有ＲＮＡ。ＲＮＰ量的多少与ＥＤＴＡ 的分化时间呈负相关     

蚕豆染色体周边RNP形成过程的电镜研究

本文运用Bernhard染色方法研究了蚕豆根端分生组织细胞中染色体周边RNP的超微结构以及这种周边RNP在有丝分裂前期到中期的形成过程。我们观察到,在前期核仁解体过程中,来自核仁的RNP物质结合于染色体表面,形成染色体周边RNP。前期末时,大量核仁RNP颗粒向周围扩散并进一步结合于染色体表面,使染色体周边RNP有所增加。中期染色体的周边RNP明显多于前期,由直径15-20 nm的RNP颗粒构成。RNP物质在染色体周边的分布是不均匀的。姊妹染色单体之间往往有较多的RNP物质存在。本文观察结果表明染色体周边RNP来源于核仁RNP。     

番茄属种间杂种离体培养F1植株的细胞学分析

本文报道了栽培番茄（Lycopersico esculentum)“北京早红”等5个品种分别与野生型秘鲁番茄（L.peruvianum)PI128657中8号株系杂交,离体胚培养,得F1杂种植株,对花粉母细胞在减数分裂中染色体行为和终变期二价体交叉点的频率,以及亲和性程度等进行了.结果表明,6个亲本植株花粉母细胞减数分裂染色体的行为是正常的,中期I为12个二价体。其中环状二价体占多数,棒状二价体数较少,中期I没有单价体,后期I和II均正常,四分体阶段无微出现,但各亲本在终变期和中期I的环状二价体和棒状二价体的数有一定的差异,这可能与不同亲本基因型的亲和性程度和在遗传学上的不协调有关。5个组合的大多数F1杂种花粉母细胞减数分裂中染色体行为基本正常,12个二价体占多数,但染色体配对不稳定,有较多的单价体,染色单体桥。四分体阶段有微核,此外,在5个组合的F1杂种植株中,均出现双二倍体花粉母细胞,这些双二倍体花粉母细胞的染色体,在减数分裂中,也均,出现落后染色体和染色单体桥,以及较多的多价体,四分体阶段有微和不同类型的四分孢子群。     

用电镜原位杂交技术对玉米中期染色体中RNA的研究

用生物素标记的玉米１８ＳｒＲＮＡ、小麦５ＳｒＲＮＡ 及ｔＲＮＡ 的ｃＤＮＡ 作为探针,在Ｋ４Ｍ 树脂包埋的玉米（Ｚｅａ ｍ ａｙｓ）根尖超薄切片上进行原位杂交。杂交后,用与１０ ｎｍ 金颗粒相连的亲和素对杂交子在电镜下进行检测。结果发现,在玉米中期染色体中存在有１８ＳｒＲＮＡ、５ＳｒＲＮＡ 和ｔＲＮＡ 分子,这些ＲＮＡ分子在染色体中的分布是随机的,即这些ＲＮＡ 分子在染色体的内部和周边均有分布。５ＳｒＲＮＡ 和ｔＲ－ＮＡ 在染色体中和细胞质中的含量基本相等,而１８ＳｒＲＮＡ 在染色体中的含量则明显高于细胞质。这一结果表明染色体中的ＲＮＡ 一部分来自于核仁,而另一部分则来自于核质     

Studies on RNA in the Metaphase Chromosome of Zea mays by Electron Microscopy in Situ Hybridization

In situ hybridization using biotinylated cDNA probes of 18S rRNA, 5S rRNA, tRNAfMet, tRNAcys, tRNAAsn was performed on ultra-thin sections of K4M-embedded maize root tip. After hybridization, the biotinylated hybrids were detected with avidin coupled to 10 nm gold particles and then examined under the electron microscopy. The results showed that 18S rRNA, 5S rRNA and tRNA all existed in the metaphase chromosomes at random. They were distributed not only in the interior of the chromosomes, but also in the periphery of the chromosomes. Three tRNAs and 5S rRNA in the chromosomes were equal in amount to that in the cytoplasm, but the amount of 18S rRNA in the chromosomes was much higher than that in the cytoplasm. These results indicated that a part of the RNAs in the chromosomes came from the nucleolus, while others came from the nucleoplasm.     

THE RIBOSOMAL RNA OF HAMSTER-MOUSE HYBRID CELLS

The ribosomal RNA (rRNA) of a series of hamster-mouse somatic cell hybrids was studied. Mouse 28S rRNA was separated from its hamster counterpart by a two-step procedure involving sucrose gradient centrifugation of ribosomes and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of rRNA. Both hamster and mouse types of rRNA were synthesized in the 11 hybrids tested, including hybrids containing only about one-half the haploid number of either mouse or hamster chromosomes. It appears that, for both hamster and mouse rRNA, when the chromosomes of one species constituted the majority of the chromosomes of a hybrid, a disproportionately higher percentage of rRNA of that species was present in the hybrid. Some hybrid clones, having a majority of mouse chromosomes, had a mouse rRNA cell concentration approximately four to five times higher than the concentration expected from linear extrapolation of the value found for the mouse parental cell line.     

STUDIES ON THE ISOLATION OF METAPHASE CHROMOSOMES

A method for the isolation of metaphase chromosomes from mouse L1210 leukemia cells has been developed. Cells, arrested at metaphase with colchicine, were exposed to hypotonic solution and the pH was then adjusted to 5.6 to stabilize the chromosomes. The metaphase figures were subsequently disrupted and the chromosomes isolated by a series of differential centrifugations in sucrose. The isolated chromosomes were well preserved, as judged by morphological criteria. The effect of various enzymes and chemical agents on the isolated chromosomes was studied. Chymotrypsin, trypsin, and deoxyribonuclease caused a marked disintegration of the chromosomes, whereas treatment with pepsin and ribonuclease induced no significant morphological alterations.     

Location of genes coding for 18S and 28S ribosomal RNA within the genome of Mus musculus

Cytological detection of cistrons coding for 18S and 28S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) within the genome of Mus musculus inbred strain SEC/1ReJ was accomplished using the technique of in situ hybridization. Metaphase chromosome spreads prepared from cultured fetal mouse cells were stained with quinacrine-HCl and photographed. After destaining, they were hybridized to Xenopus laevis tritiated 18S and 28S rRNA, specific activity 7.5 X 10(6) dpm/mug. Silver grains clustered over specific chromosomes were readily apparent after 4 months of autoradiographic exposure. The identity of the labelled chromosomes was established by comparing the autoradiographs to quinacrine photographs showing characteristic fluorescent banding of the chromosomes in each metaphase spread. The 18S and 28S rRNA was found to hybridize to chromosomes 12, 18, and 16. Statistical analysis of the grain distribution over 26 spreads revealed that the three chromosomes were significantly labelled. Grains over these chromosomes were concentrated in an area immediately distal to the centromere, a region which in chromosomes 12 and 18 in this particular strain is the site of a secondary constriction. The relative size of the secondary constrictions, long and thus prominent on chromosome 12, obvious but shorter on 18, and indistinguishable on chromosome 16, correlated with the average number of grains observed over the centromeric region of these chromosomes, 2.5, 1.0, and 0.78, respectively.     

THE QUESTION OF POST-REDUCTION IN SPHAGNUM

The 19 spatially distinct chromosomal units at first meiotic metaphase in sporophytically diploid species of Sphagnum have usually been considered to be bivalents, but one investigator (Sorsa, 1956) has interpreted them as chromosomes from dissociated bivalents and meiosis as post-reductional. The present studies on diploid S. squarrosum (Pers.) Crome establish the chromosome number on the basis of the following evidence: there are in addition to m-chromosomes, 19 pairs of chromosomes in early prophase, 19 bivalents at diakinesis, 19 chromosomes in each of the two sets at second metaphase, 19 daughter chromosomes in each of the four sets at late second anaphase, and 19 chromosomes in gametophytic mitoses. The 19 bodies at first meiotic metaphase in diploid species are true bivalents in loose secondary association, which has led to their erroneous interpretation as chromosomes of dissociated bivalents. The gametic chromosome number in sporophytically diploid Sphagnum is therefore, without doubt, n = 19, and this evidence negates the claim for post-reduction in Sphagnum.     

Detection of active genes in mouse metaphase chromosomes using DNAse I in situ

The active genes of rRNA were localized near the centromere region of metacentric translocation chromosome Rb(9, 19) 163H in early mouse embryos revealed by differential silver staining of NORs. Using nick-translation reaction in situ it was shown that rRNA genes in metaphase chromosomes were in a deoxyribonuclease I sensitive conformation. This method of nick-translation in situ can be used for visualization of various actively transcribed regions of genome at metaphase.     

Physical mapping of rRNA genes by fluorescent in-situ hybridization and structural analysis of 5S rRNA genes and intergenic spacer sequences in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)

A digoxigenin-labelled 5S rDNA probe (pTa-794) and a rhodamine-labelled 18S-5.8S-25S rDNA probe (pTa71) were used for double-target in-situ hybridization to root-tip metaphase, prophase and interphase chromosomes of cultivated beet,Beta vulgaris L. After in-situ hybridization with the 18S-5.8S-25S rDNA probe, one major pair of sites was detected which corresponded to the secondary constriction at the end of the short arm of chromosome 1. The two rDNA chromosomes were often associated and the loci only contracted in late metaphase. In the majority of the metaphase plates analyzed, we found a single additional minor hybridization site with pTa71. One pair of 5S rRNA gene clusters was localized near the centromere on the short arm of one of the three largest chromosomes which does not carry the 18S-5.8S-25S genes. Because of the difficulties in distinguishing the very similarly-sizedB. vulgaris chromosomes in metaphase preparations, the 5S and the 18S-5.8S-25S rRNA genes can be used as markers for chromosome identification. TwoXbaI fragments (pXV1 and pXV2), comprising the 5S ribosomal RNA gene and the adjacent intergenic spacer, were isolated. The two 5S rDNA repeats were 349 bp and 351 bp long, showing considerable sequence variation in the intergenic spacer. The use of fluorescent in-situ hybridization, complemented by molecular data, for gene mapping and for integrating genetic and physical maps of beet species is discussed.     

Age-related increase in methylation of ribosomal genes and inactivation of chromosome-specific rRNA gene clusters in mouse.

An age-related increase in DNA methylation of the multicopy 18S and 28S ribosomal RNA genes was found in CBA/Ca mice beginning between 6 and 18 months of age at the 5' end of these genes in liver, brain and spleen. The highest level of age-associated hypermethylation was mapped to the proximal 5' spacer domain. Silver staining of actively transcribing ribosomal genes in metaphase chromosomes from stimulated spleen cells provided cytological evidence that these mice have 3 rRNA cistrons located on chromosomes 15, 16, and 18. The ribosomal gene cluster located on chromosome 16 was preferentially inactivated in older animals. Exposure of spleen cells from older individuals to 5-azacytidine appeared to both reactivate ribosomal gene clusters and reduce rRNA gene methylation.     

Differential sensitivity of mouse pronuclei and zygote cytoplasm to Hoechst staining and ultraviolet irradiation

The exposure of mouse zygotes pre-stained with Hoechst 33342 to u.v. irradiation for 20-30 sec significantly or completely inhibited development to blastocysts in vitro. However, development to the blastocyst stage of enucleated eggs receiving pronuclei from untreated eggs was as good as that of control reconstituted eggs when the cytoplasm originated from eggs exposed to u.v. irradiation for 20-30 sec, but was significantly lower when the cytoplasm was from eggs exposed for 40 sec. The chromosomes at the second metaphase stage could be removed with 15 sec of exposure to u.v. irradiation under a fluorescence microscope. Most eggs enucleated at the second metaphase that received a single inner cell mass nucleus (75%) showed pronuclear formation 6 h after activation; 23% of them developed to morphologically normal 2-cell eggs and 5% developed to blastocysts. These results demonstrate that the cytoplasm of mouse zygotes is more resistant to u.v. irradiation after Hoechst staining. Eggs at the second metaphase, from which chromosomes have been removed under a fluorescence microscope, can therefore be used as cytoplasm recipients for nuclear transplantation of inner cell mass nuclei.