Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22733107›Full record

ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2012

Studying mitotic checkpoint by illustrating dynamic kinetochore protein behavior and chromosome motion in living Drosophila syncytial embryos.

Maureen Sinclair, Jun-Yong Huang

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maureen SinclairInstitute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Jun-Yong Huang
Newcastle University · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) mechanism is an active signal, which monitors the interaction between chromosome kinetochores and spindle microtubules to prevent anaphase onset until the chromosomes are properly connected. Cells use this mechanism to prevent aneuploidy or genomic instability, and hence cancers and other human diseases like birth defects and Alzheimer's. A number of the SAC components such as Mad1, Mad2, Bub1, BubR1, Bub3, Mps1, Zw10, Rod and Aurora B kinase have been identified and they are all kinetochore dynamic proteins. Evidence suggests that the kinetochore is where the SAC signal is initiated. The SAC prime regulatory target is Cdc20. Cdc20 is one of the essential APC/C (Anaphase Promoting Complex or Cyclosome) activators and is also a kinetochore dynamic protein. When activated, the SAC inhibits the activity of the APC/C to prevent the destruction of two key substrates, cyclin B and securin, thereby preventing the metaphase to anaphase transition. Exactly how the SAC signal is initiated and assembled on the kinetochores and relayed onto the APC/C to inhibit its function still remains elusive. Drosophila is an extremely tractable experimental system; a much simpler and better-understood organism compared to the human but one that shares fundamental processes in common. It is, perhaps, one of the best organisms to use for bio-imaging studies in living cells, especially for visualization of the mitotic events in space and time, as the early embryo goes through 13 rapid nuclear division cycles synchronously (8-10 minutes for each cycle at 25 °C) and gradually organizes the nuclei in a single monolayer just underneath the cortex. Here, I present a bio-imaging method using transgenic Drosophila expressing GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) or its variant-targeted proteins of interest and a Leica TCS SP2 confocal laser scanning microscope system to study the SAC function in flies, by showing images of GFP fusion proteins of some of the SAC components, Cdc20 and Mad2, as the example.

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AnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedCdc20 ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsFemaleGreen Fluorescent ProteinsKinetochoresM Phase Cell Cycle CheckpointsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSpindle ApparatusCdc20 ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsDrosophila Proteinsfzy protein, DrosophilaGreen Fluorescent ProteinsRecombinant Fusion Proteins

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PMID22733107
PMCPMC3471286
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