Ultrastructural localization of actin in nuclear matrices from mouse leukemia L5178Y cells.

Nakayasu, Hiroshi; Ueda, Kiyoshi

doi:10.1247/csf.10.305

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Peripheral nuclear matrix actin forms perinuclear shells

Clubb

Locke

1998

J. Cell. Biochem.

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Perinuclear actin shells have been reported in a variety of organisms. The shells have been identified by staining perinuclear material with fluorescently-labelled phalloidin, but have not been localized to a specific subcellular compartment at the ultrastructural level. We show here that the shells of 3T3 cells lie in the peripheral nuclear matrix. Nuclear shells and matrix actin in other parts of the nucleus are not usually detected by immunohistochemical staining because they are inaccessible to antibodies or to phalloidin. Immunohistochemical detection of nuclear actin is only possible during its deposition at the end of mitosis, or in interphase nuclei that have been extracted with detergent, digested with nucleases and washed with high salt buffers.

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Peripheral nuclear matrix actin forms perinuclear shells

Clubb

Locke

1998

J. Cell. Biochem.

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Chromatin motion in neuronal interphase nuclei: Changes induced by disruption of intermediate filaments

Hay

Boni

1991

Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton

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Motion of nucleoli within interphase nuclei, known as nuclear rotation, may be used as a measure of motion of chromatin domains within the global confines of the nucleus. Mechanisms by which chromatin domains are transposed remain enigmatic. It has been established that nuclei are anchored by a network of intermediate filaments, structural proteins which share epitopes with nuclear lamins and possibly representing a constraint on nuclear rotation. It is postulated that selective removal of this constraint, by acrylamide, would result in increased chromatin motion. Mean rates of nucleolar displacement were quantified in neurons, in vitro. Nuclear rotation increased from a mean control rate of 0.102 +/- 0.002 micron/min (n = 52) to a maximum mean rate of 0.207 +/- 0.026 micron/min (n = 11), after 23 hr of exposure to 4 mM acrylamide. Despite this significant increase in motion of intranuclear domains, cytoplasmic structures in the immediate juxtanuclear area did not exhibit increases in rates of motion. Immunocytochemistry was used to visualize cytoskeletal structures and to assay selective disruption of neurofilaments by acrylamide. Increased rates of chromatin motion coincided with breakdown of the intermediate filament network. Ultrastructural analyses showed that the increase in chromatin motion induced by acrylamide was also associated with a significant (P less than 0.005) change in the thickness of the nuclear lamina, decreasing from 20.9 +/- 5.10 nm (n = 159) in controls to 18.9 +/- 3.1 nm (n = 148), to 19.5 +/- 3.6 nm (n = 240) and to 16.1 +/- 4.4 nm (n = 103) at 4, 8 and 22 hr exposure, respectively. Moreover, the number of mitochondria per unit area changed significantly (P less than 0.0001) with exposure to acrylamide, increasing from 9.1 +/- 2.2 mitochondrial profiles in controls to 16.5 +/- 5.3 profiles after 22 hr exposure to acrylamide. Distribution of other cytoskeletal components, actin and microtubules, was not altered and does not appear to play a significant role in the observed increase in rates of nuclear rotation. We conclude that the removal of the damping effects on chromatin motion normally imposed by the nuclear lamina and by intermediate filaments results in increased chromatin motion.

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A shell of F‐actin surrounds the branched nuclei of silk gland cells

Henderson

Locke

1992

Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton

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The branched nuclei from silk gland cells of larvae of Calpodes ethlius label with antibodies to actin and myosin and with rhodaminyl-phalloin, which is specific for f-actin. Optical sectioning localizes this actin and myosin to the nuclear periphery. Residual nuclear-associated fractions prepared from these cells contain sheets of nuclear lamina-like structures that bind heavy meromyosin and gold-tagged antibodies to actin and myosin. The results suggest that both actin and myosin, or a myosin-like protein, are components of a layer at the nucleocytoplasmic boundary that we call the nuclear shell. The nuclear shell appears to be associated with the nuclear envelope and may correspond to a zone on the cytoplasmic face of the envelope seen in electron micrographs of unextracted cells. The residual nuclearassociated fraction has a unique isoform of actin (43 kD, pl6.45) that might allow the nuclei to associate with an actin network structurally and developmentally distinct from that of the cytoplasm. 0 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Ultrastructural localization of actin in nuclear matrices from mouse leukemia L5178Y cells.

Cited by 36 publications

References 15 publications

Peripheral nuclear matrix actin forms perinuclear shells

Peripheral nuclear matrix actin forms perinuclear shells

Chromatin motion in neuronal interphase nuclei: Changes induced by disruption of intermediate filaments

A shell of F‐actin surrounds the branched nuclei of silk gland cells

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