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Daniel 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.3 O) t( W7 |; l8 p
' y0 w) }: d, T& w2 ^2 h) iChlamydomonas 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.0 c1 v% r* _" I9 E
, A3 d$ k& i4 p$ w" NGarc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.
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( J# w5 r0 h% v/ A0 z. ~1 L/ z4 ZEven 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.
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Col車n-Ramos, D., et al. 2003. Dev. Cell. 4:941–952.(NPCs (white) move to the posterior side ) |
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