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ArticleBiology open2023

Actin filaments accumulated in the nucleus remain in the vicinity of condensing chromosomes in the zebrafish early embryo.

Haruka Oda, Yuko Sato, Shigehiro A Kawashima, Yusuke Fujiwara, Máté Pálfy, Edlyn Wu, Nadine L Vastenhouw, Motomu Kanai, Hiroshi Kimura

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Article in Biology open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Nucleoskeletal Proteins in Early Embryogenesis.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  3. Recent advances in nuclear actin research.Nucleus (Austin, Tex.) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Haruka OdaCell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0286-1317
Yuko SatoCell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7805-9171
Shigehiro A KawashimaGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2946-6627
Yusuke FujiwaraGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Máté PálfyMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden-01307, Germany.
Edlyn WuMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden-01307, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1424-923X
Nadine L VastenhouwMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden-01307, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8782-9775
Motomu KanaiGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1977-7648
Hiroshi KimuraCell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0854-083X
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics · DEThe University of Tokyo · JPTokyo Institute of Technology · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the cytoplasm, filamentous actin (F-actin) plays a critical role in cell regulation, including cell migration, stress fiber formation, and cytokinesis. Recent studies have shown that actin filaments that form in the nucleus are associated with diverse functions. Here, using live imaging of an F-actin-specific probe, superfolder GFP-tagged utrophin (UtrCH-sfGFP), we demonstrated the dynamics of nuclear actin in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos. In early zebrafish embryos up to around the high stage, UtrCH-sfGFP increasingly accumulated in nuclei during the interphase and reached a peak during the prophase. After nuclear envelope breakdown (NEBD), patches of UtrCH-sfGFP remained in the vicinity of condensing chromosomes during the prometaphase to metaphase. When zygotic transcription was inhibited by injecting α-amanitin, the nuclear accumulation of UtrCH-sfGFP was still observed at the sphere and dome stages, suggesting that zygotic transcription may induce a decrease in nuclear F-actin. The accumulation of F-actin in nuclei may contribute to proper mitotic progression of large cells with rapid cell cycles in zebrafish early embryos, by assisting in NEBD, chromosome congression, and/or spindle assembly.

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ActinsZebrafishActin CytoskeletonAnimalsChromosomesMitosisActinsLive-cell imagingNuclear actinZebrafish embryo

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PMID37071022
PMCPMC10214854
OpenAlexW4366234716

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