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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 100, Issue 3 541-550, Copyright © 1991 by Company of Biologists

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Postmitotic reassembly of the cell nucleus in whole cells: an electron-spectroscopic study

S Stracke and R Martin
Sektion Elektronenmikroskopie, Universitat Ulm, Germany.

By electron-spectroscopic imaging it is possible to visualize selectively the distribution of phosphorus-rich structures such as nucleosomes, ribosomes or other ribonucleoprotein particles. Using this method we re-examined assembly of the nucleus in telophase of dividing onion root cells and human HeLa cells. Our observations disagree considerably with conclusions drawn from work with cell-free systems. We consistently observed reassembly of nuclear envelope cisternae from vesicles in the cytoplasm without direct contact with chromatin. The preassembled envelope cisternae then enclosed the telophase chromosome mass, contacting the chromatin in some tracts, but also trapping cytoplasmic material such as ribosomes between chromosomes and envelope. Until a late stage in telophase the re-forming nuclear envelope left large gaps between the nuclear and the cytoplasmic compartments. Exclusion of cytoplasmic material from the re-assembling nucleus was facilitated by prenucleolar material, which accumulated in the deep furrows of the chromosomes and interchromosomal spaces. This material expanded considerably while the envelope was still open, in this way displacing cytoplasm non-selectively from the future nucleus. The model we propose for reassembly of the nucleus in whole cells does not postulate contact with and complete enclosure of chromosomes by the re-forming envelope, and suggests a decisive role for expanding prenucleolar material in the process of nucleocytoplasmic compartmentalization.


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