CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION ACTIVITY IN RANA-PIPIENS EGGS MATURED INVIVO AND IN BLASTOMERES ARRESTED BY CYTOSTATIC FACTOR (CSF)

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MEYERHOF, PG [1 ]
MASUI, Y [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TORONTO, DEPT ZOOL, TORONTO M5S 1A1, ONTARIO, CANADA
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10.1016/0014-4827(79)90476-2
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R73 [肿瘤学];
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The ability of brain nuclei to give rise to condensed chromosomes was studied inRana pipiens eggs which had undergone meiotic maturation in vivo, in blastomeres of two-cell embryos which had been arrested at metaphase by the injection of cytostatic factor (CSF) from mature eggs, and in immature fully grown ovarian oocytes with and without prior CSF injection. Chromosomes from brain nuclei were found to condense within 4 h in mature eggs and this chromosome condensation activity was enhanced by the chelation of free Ca2+ in the nuclear isolation medium. Chromosomes also condensed in CSF-arrested blastomeres whether they were placed in the blastomere 30 min before the CSF injection or as long as 22 h after the CSF. Both the Ca2+-sensitive CSF, 1{ring operator}CSF, and the Ca2+-insensitive CSF, 2{ring operator}CSF, resulted in chromosome condensation within arrested blastomeres. The condensation was accompanied by the formation of multipolar spindles and asters. However, it was found that cytoplasm in CSF-arrested blastomeres does not arrest mitosis at metaphase when transferred into a cleaving blastomere. Other experiments demonstrated that chromosome condensation does not occur in ovarian oocytes even when supplied with CSF. The results are interpreted as indicating that CSF does not directly bring about chromosome condensation, but arrests the cell cycle at metaphase and stabilizes the cytoplasmic conditions of metaphase which, in turn, induce chromosome condensation in foreign nuclei as well as spindle and aster formation. © 1979.
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