RADIOAUTOGRAPHIC LOCALIZATION OF DEOXYTHYMIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE IN TRADESCANTIA POLLEN GRAINS DURING DNA SYNTHESIS |
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Authors: | S. T. Takats |
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Affiliation: | From the Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 |
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Abstract: | Tradescantia pollen grains, isolated during the period of DNA synthesis in the generative cell, accumulate deoxythymidine triphosphate (dTTP)-3H after incubation with thymidine-3H in the presence of millimolar deoxyadenosine. Most of this dTTP-3H was found to resist extraction by the fixative, cold ethanol-acetic acid, and its location was investigated by radioautography with thin, dry emulsion. Substantial binding of dTTP-3H occurred as an artifact; but when nuclei were isolated from the fixed pollen grains by sonication, it was found that they were differentially labeled: generative nuclei contained dTTP-3H, vegetative nuclei did not. This observation is discussed and is interpreted as evidence supporting the idea that thymidine is phosphorylated only in the generative cell of the pollen grain. |
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