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/ `" }+ m' g2 ~% yDaniel Col車n-Ramos, Mariano A. Garc赤a-Blanco (Duke University, Durham, NC), and colleagues demonstrate in a recent article that Chlamydomonas nuclear architecture changes to accommodate cytoplasmic needs.
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, R' M; ]* N8 H6 s. VChlamydomonas is a highly polarized cell that offers a unique system to study changes in nuclear shape. Loss of this algae's flagella (after certain chemical or mechanical stresses) causes the nucleus to adopt a pear-like shape and take an anterior position in the cell, nearer where the flagella once sat.. [ E U* O+ C# ^" g8 ]
+ t4 `1 c& e5 O: N( iGarc赤a-Blanco wondered whether sites of transcription of the ? tubulin gene, which is strongly up-regulated upon deflagellation, move closer to the flagella to expedite their rebuilding. Immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy revealed that the ? tubulin gene did not move from its posterior nuclear position. But the experiments did uncover an unexpected asymmetry of nuclear pore complex distribution.9 l% w% \( f3 w7 f
9 k: K7 i C) p& x/ V! f) cEven in flagellated cells, the complexes were preferentially located at the posterior side of the nucleus, near a polysome-rich portion of the cytoplasm. Deflagellation further exaggerated the asymmetry. The changes correlated with accumulation of ? tubulin transcripts near the concentrated translation machinery. Says Garc赤a-Blanco, "what we don't know yet is what causes what." He hopes to find mutants that uncouple events following deflagellation to determine whether nuclear architecture directly targets mRNA cytoplasmic localization.( p( f/ e1 b7 z% t4 t
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