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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 113, Issue 21 3815-3823, Copyright © 2000 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
JM King and RB Nicklas
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
When chromosomes attach properly to a mitotic spindle, their kinetochores generate force in opposite directions, creating tension. Tension is presumed to increase kinetochore microtubule number, but there has been no direct evidence this is true. We micromanipulated grasshopper spermatocyte chromosomes to test this assumption and found that tension does indeed affect the number of kinetochore microtubules. Releasing tension at kinetochores causes a drop to less than half the original number of kinetochore microtubules. Restoring tension onto these depleted kinetochores restores the microtubules to their original number. However, the effects of tension are limited. Prometaphase kinetochores, when under normal tension from mitotic forces, have about half as many microtubules as they will in late metaphase. We imposed a tension force of 6 x 10(-5) dynes, three times the normal tension, on prometaphase kinetochores. The elevated tension did not drive kinetochore microtubule number above normal prometaphase values. Tension probably increases the number of kinetochore microtubules by slowing their turnover rate. The limited effect of tension at prometaphase kinetochores suggests that they have fewer microtubule binding sites than at late metaphase. The relatively few sites available in prometaphase may be the decisive sites whose binding of microtubules regulates the dynamics of transient kinetochore constituents, including checkpoint components.
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