Lamin disassembly kinetics: A cell-free system with extracts from mitotic HeLa cells |
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Authors: | Doris Hgner Klaus Lepper Georg Seibold Erich Jost |
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Institution: | Department of Genetics, Justus-Liebig-Universit?t, Giessen, Federal Republic of Germany. |
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Abstract: | We describe a cell-free system in which a postribosomal supernatant from metaphase HeLa cells induces prophase-like changes in permeabilized HeLa cell populations as evidenced by the nuclear lamin disassembly and chromatin condensation. We have attempted to characterize the cell-free system with permeabilized HeLa cells. First, by extracting lamins with agents known to disrupt the noncovalent interactions in the supramolecular lamin aggregate in interphase using polyclonal and a newly established monoclonal anti-lamin Ab 2E3, uniform extraction of lamins was achieved with urea and deoxycholate whereas the cation Mg2+ and 2-mercaptoethanol had little effect on the disassembly of interphase lamins. Second, cytoplasmic extract from mitotic HeLa cells, synchronized by a nitrous oxide metaphase arrest, was tested. It had a differential effect on interphase lamin depolymerization. Nuclei in G1 phase of the cell cycle were more resistant against the mitotic extracts than cells in S and G2 phase. The results are discussed in terms of a possible inactivation of mitotic extracts by factors present in nuclei in early interphase. |
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