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First published online 25 September 2007
doi: 10.1242/jcs.016907
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Research Article |
1 Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France
2 Inserm, U567, Paris, France
3 Inserm, U785, Université Paris sud, Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Villejuif F-94804, France
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: desdouets{at}cochin.inserm.fr)
Accepted 21 August 2007
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Key words: Tetraploidy, Hepatocytes, Cytokinesis, Weaning, Cytoskeleton
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Tetraploidy is a characteristic feature of mammalian hepatocytes (Gupta, 2000
). During postnatal growth, the liver parenchyma undergoes dramatic changes characterized by gradual polyploidization during which hepatocytes of several ploidy classes emerge as a result of modified cell-division cycles. This process generates the successive appearance of tetraploid and octoploid cell classes with one or two nuclei. Thus, in the liver of a newborn rat, hepatocytes are exclusively diploid (2n). In adult rats, approximately 25% of hepatocytes are diploid, 70% are tetraploid (binucleated 2x2n or mononucleated 4n) and 5% are octoploid (binucleated 2x4n or mononucleated 8n). The degree of polyploidization varies in different mammals. In humans, the number of polyploid cells averages 30-40% in the adult liver (Kudryavtsev et al., 1993
; Toyoda et al., 2005
). In adults, liver polyploidization is differentially regulated upon loss of liver mass and liver damage. Interestingly, partial hepatectomy induces marked cell proliferation followed by an increase in liver ploidy (Sigal et al., 1999
). By contrast, during hepatocarcinoma (HCC), growth shifts to a non-polyploidizing pattern and expansion of the diploid hepatocyte population is observed in neoplastic nodules (Seglen, 1997
). We previously uncovered the sequential appearance during liver growth of binucleated 2x2n and mononucleated 4n hepatocytes from a diploid hepatocyte population (Guidotti et al., 2003
). Furthermore, we showed in vitro that binucleated 2x2n hepatocytes emerge as a result of an incomplete cytokinesis. These tetraploid cells are capable of proliferation. In fact, binucleated hepatocytes are able to proceed through S phase and the formation of a bipolar spindle during mitosis constituted the key step leading to the genesis of two mononucleated 4n hepatocytes (Guidotti et al., 2003
).
In the current study, we investigated when the incomplete cytokinesis process is taking place during postnatal liver growth and how this specific division program is controlled. We deciphered, in the liver, a new physiological process of incomplete cytokinesis triggered by weaning. Mitotic hepatocytes achieved karyogenesis without establishing the cleavage plane because of the deficiencies of actin cytoskeleton and microtubule reorganization.
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Incomplete cytokinesis is defined by an absence of anaphase cell elongation
To further investigate the precise mechanism that gives rise to tetraploid progenies, we cultured primary hepatocytes from rat before and after weaning and analyzed them by live-cell video microscopy. Under these conditions, hepatocytes divided just once and a maximum mitotic index of 10% is reached (Guidotti et al., 2003
). Before weaning, time-lapse observations revealed that all diploid hepatocytes progressed normally through mitosis and gave rise solely to diploid progenies. As anaphase proceeded, cells elongated preceding furrow formation and ingression (Fig. 3A and supplementary material Movie 1). We next monitored hepatocyte division after weaning. Mitotic hepatocytes did not complete cytokinesis in 10±1.7% of cases (n=50) when isolated from 21-day-old rats and in 28±3.6% of cases (n=50) when isolated from 25-day-old rats. Hepatocytes undergoing incomplete cytokinesis did not exhibit dynamic shape changes; there was no evidence of furrow ingression (Fig. 3A and supplementary material Movie 2). To expand this finding, we measured cell elongation from metaphase to telophase (pole-to-pole distance) on hepatocytes isolated from 25-day-old rats. Elongation was greatly impaired during incomplete cytokinesis, being fourfold lower as compared with complete cytokinesis (Fig. 3B). In association with this defect, DNA-to-cortex distance decreased (Fig. 3C); in fact, the DNA masses crushed on the cortical polar region from late anaphase to early telophase (supplementary material Movie 2). We confirmed the defect in cell elongation in vivo using
-catenin staining (as shown in Fig. 1A). All hepatocytes in metaphase had the same shape, representative of the cell rounding process (length: 21.4±0.43 µm, width: 25.03±0.73 µm, n=50). In telophase, hepatocytes that completed cytokinesis had an elongated shape (length: 31±0.88 µm, width: 16.34±0.53 µm, n=50), whereas hepatocytes that did not complete cytokinesis kept the same shape as in metaphase (length: 22.51±0.75 µm, width: 27.54±0.91 µm, n=50). We therefore concluded that the physiological process of incomplete cytokinesis is associated with the absence of cell elongation.
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Deficiency in actin cytoskeleton reorganization in cells that did not complete cytokinesis
To further investigate the cell elongation defect, we analyzed cytoskeleton rearrangements, which are crucial in determining the placement of the cleavage furrow (Murthy and Wadsworth, 2005
; Yumura, 2001
). We examined how remodelling of F-actin was coordinated during cytokinesis. When hepatocytes completed cytokinesis, the presence of an actin belt parallel to the cleavage plane was observed in early telophase (Fig. 4A, left panels). By contrast, during the incomplete cytokinesis process, this structure was always absent (Fig. 4A, right panels). We quantified pole-to-pole distribution of F-actin along the cortex. We showed that, when hepatocytes completed cytokinesis, F-actin concentrated to the equatorial cortex, demonstrating redistribution of the protein during anaphase-to-telophase transition (Fig. 4B). By contrast, F-actin uniformly localized all along the cortex during the process of incomplete cytokinesis (Fig. 4B). Because latrunculin A (LatA) prevents actin polymerization (Wakatsuki et al., 2001
), we analyzed, after weaning, the effect of LatA treatment on the cell elongation defect. As described before, 30% of hepatocytes isolated from 25-day-old rats did not exhibit dynamic shape changes; in the presence of LatA, all hepatocytes elongated (supplementary material Fig. S1). This result clearly suggests that, during the incomplete cytokinesis process, cell elongation is impaired because of an absence of actin cytoskeleton reorganization. In Drosophila cells, Rho kinase (ROCK) is essential for anaphase cell elongation (Dean and Spudich, 2006
; Hickson et al., 2006
). In our system, we determined whether inhibition of ROCK had an effect on cell shape during anaphase on primary cultures isolated from rats before weaning. Remarkably, treatment of hepatocytes with a specific ROCK inhibitor resulted in a defect in cell elongation during cytokinesis (supplementary material Movie 3). By measuring cell elongation between metaphase and telophase, we clearly reproduced the same defect that we observed after weaning (Fig. 4C). ROCK is required for normal myosin II recruitment to the equatorial cortex (Dean et al., 2005
; Hickson et al., 2006
; Straight et al., 2003
). Equatorial myosin II accumulation, thereafter, derives turnover of actin filaments along the equator to allow ingression to take place (Guha et al., 2005
; Murthy and Wadsworth, 2005
). We analyzed the localization of myosin II at the equatorial cortex before and after weaning. If hepatocytes completed cytokinesis, we always observed that, during anaphase, the phospho-regulatory light chain (phospho-RLC) of myosin II accumulated to the equatorial cortex, in contrast to hepatocytes that did not complete cytokinesis (genesis of binucleated hepatocytes) (Fig. 4D and supplementary material Fig. S2). We conclude that the incomplete cytokinesis process is characterized by the absence of actin cytoskeleton rearrangement.
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Astral microtubules failed to contact the equatorial cortex during the incomplete cytokinesis process
Mitotic spindle microtubules deliver spatially restricted signals to the cortex to promote furrowing and this occurs together with the signalling pathway that regulates equatorial cortical activity (D'Avino et al., 2005
). Astral and central spindle microtubules are considered to be essential for cleavage-plane specification (Alsop and Zhang, 2003
; Bringmann and Hyman, 2005
; Canman et al., 2003
; Inoue et al., 2004
). We therefore examined the behaviour of microtubules in our model. Before weaning, as hepatocytes proceeded through anaphase, staining for
-tubulin revealed the presence of anti-parallel microtubules (the central spindle) and microtubules towards the cell cortex in the furrow and polar regions (Fig. 5A). In telophase, microtubules were compressed in the midzone as a consequence of furrow ingression (Fig. 5A). After weaning, organization of the microtubules network was identical in all hepatocytes until early anaphase (data not shown). However, in late anaphase, we clearly noticed that 30% of hepatocytes presented a disrupted central spindle and astral equatorial microtubules, as well as reduced astral polar microtubules (Fig. 5A). Analysis of
-tubulin fluorescence intensity at the equatorial region between anaphase and telophase revealed a 1.6-fold increased labelling when hepatocytes completed cytokinesis, whereas no significant increase was observed when cells did not complete (supplementary material Fig. S3). Because astral microtubules become stabilized upon contacting the cortex (Burgess and Chang, 2005
), we next analyzed the interaction between astral microtubules and the equatorial cortex. We demonstrated that during incomplete cytokinesis, astral microtubules failed to contact the equatorial cortex (Fig. 5B). Furthermore, we analyzed localization of EB1, a protein that only associates with elongating microtubules and not with microtubules that become stabilized upon contact with the cortex (Strickland et al., 2005
). We observed that the equatorial cortical EB1 staining was weak in hepatocytes that completed cytokinesis (Fig. 5C), reflecting the association of the majority of astral equatorial microtubules to the cortex. By contrast, when cells did not complete cytokinesis, EB1 was still present on microtubule tips, illustrating the absence of anchorage (Fig. 5C). Taken together, these results demonstrate that, during incomplete cytokinesis, the absence of astral microtubules anchorage to the equatorial cortex induces a total destabilization of the microtubule network.
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| Materials and Methods |
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Cell cultures and inhibitor
Hepatocytes were isolated from rat livers by a two-step perfusion as previously described (Guidotti et al., 2003
). Latrunculin A (Calbiochem) was used at 2 µM; HA1077 (Sigma-Aldrich) was used at 10 µM.
Antibodies
Commercial primary antibodies used were as follows: mouse anti-
-catenin (BD Transduction Laboratories, 1:200), mouse anti-
-tubulin (Tub 2.1, Sigma, 1:400), mouse anti-RhoA (Santa Cruz, 1:100), mouse anti-EB1 (BD Transduction Laboratories, 1:100), mouse anti-GS (BD Transduction Laboratories, clone 6, 1:200), mouse anti-phospho-Myosin light chain 2 (nonmuscle) (3675, Cell Signaling, 1:50), mouse anti-AIM-1 (BD Transduction Laboratories, 1:100), mouse anti-Plk1 (Euromedex-upstate, clone 35-206, 1:200), rabbit anti-Pepck1 (from Lamers, AMC Liver Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1:1000), rabbit anti-MgcRacGAP (from T. Kitamura, Institute of Medical Research Science, Tokyo, Japan, 1:100), rabbit anti-PRC1 (from W. Jiang, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA, 1:100) and 165 nM Alexa-Fluor-488-phalloidin (Molecular probes). Secondary antibodies to rabbit and mouse IgG were conjugated either with Alexa-Fluor-488 or Alexa-Fluor-594 (Molecular probes, 1:500).
Live imaging
Hepatocytes were grown on 35x10 mm coverslips coated with collagen solution (Sigma) and mounted on the microscope after 60 hours of culture. During imaging, hepatocytes were on a stage heated at 37°C under a 5% CO2 atmosphere. Cells were filmed every 90 seconds with a Leica DMIRBE using a 63x lens (numerical aperture, 1.4), a condenser (working distance, 23 mm; numerical aperture, 0.53) and a Pentamax cooled CCD camera (Popper Scientific) coupled to an electronic shutter. Metamorph 7.1 was used for computer-based image acquisition and analysis of live cell data. The single images shown were prepared using Adobe Photoshop CS.
Immunohistochemistry
Liver tissues fixed in 10% phosphate buffered formalin were embedded in paraffin. Tissue sections (3 µm) were obtained using a conventional microtome. Sections were deparaffinized in xylene and placed in 100% ethanol. Sections were rehydrated in a descending gradient of ethanol-water and then boiled for 2x5 minutes in Tris 0.1 M Tween 0.1%. All subsequent antibody incubations were carried out as described below.
Immunofluorescence
Coverslips containing hepatocytes were collected and washed in PBS. The cells were fixed either in–20°C MetOH for 3 minutes (to stain
-tubulin,
-catenin, EB1, MgcRacGAP, Aurora B, Prc1 and Plk1), or in 4°C 10% TCA for 15 minutes (to stain RhoA), or in 4°C 4% PFA for 15 minutes (to stain actin and phospho-RLC). After blocking in PBS with 10% goat serum (30 minutes), cells were incubated for 1 hour with primary antibodies, washed in PBS containing 0.1% Tween 20 and incubated with secondary antibodies for 30 minutes, all at room temperature. Hoechst 33342 (0.2 µg/ml, Sigma) was included in the final wash to counterstain nuclei. Samples were mounted on slides in Fluorescent mounting medium.
Image acquisition and analysis
Images were taken using a Nikon Statif Eclipse E600 microscope with 60x magnification, 1.4-0.7 NA PL-APO objectives, a DXM1200 cooled CCD camera (Nikon) and ACT-1 (Universal Imaging). To measure the fluorescence intensities of tubulin, actin and myosin, z-axis stacks were collected using a piezoelectric device mounted at the base of a 63x magnification, a 1.4 NA PL-APO objective on a Zeiss DMRA2 microscope and a Coolsnap HQ camera controlled by Metamorph software (Universal Imaging). A total of 20-30 planes (0.2 µm slice) were captured for each cell and compiled as single two-dimensional projections using ImageJ software. All images were imported into Adobe Photoshop CS for contrast manipulation and figure assembly. To measure actin and myosin fluorescence intensity, Linescan function of Metamorph software was used.
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