Nuclear assembly of purified Crythecodinium cohnii chromosomes in cell-free extracts of Xenopus laevis eggs

Cell Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-137

  Liu, Xiao Ling ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Chen, Er Jie ^a   Zhai, Zhong He ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell free system; Chromosome; Dinoflagellate Crythecodinium cohnii; Nuclear reconstitution; Xenopus laevis egg extracts

Indexed keywords

DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CELL EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL EXTRACTS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CHROMOSOMES; DINOFLAGELLIDA; OVUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034202671     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cr.7290042     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Soyer MO, Ok Haapala. Division and function of dinoflagellate chromosomes. J Microsc 1974; 19:137-46.
2. Herzog M, S Von Boleztky, MO Soyer. Ultrastructure and biochemical nuclear aspects of Eukaryote classification: independent evolution of the dinoflagellate as a sister group of the actual eukaryotes? Origin of Life 1984; 13:205-13.
3. Behaud Y, JM Salmon, MO Soyer. The complex cell cycle of the dinoflagellate protoctist Crythecodinium cohnii as studied in vitro and by cytofluorimentry. J Cell Sci 1991; 100:675-82.
4. Leoblich AR III.. Dinoflagellate evolution-speculation and evidence. J Protozool 1976; 23:13-28.
5. Lenaers G, C Scholin, Y Behaud, Saint-Hilaive, M Herzog. A molecular phylogeny of dinoflagellate protists (Pyrrhophyta) inferred from the sequence of 24s rRNA. Divergent domains D1 and D8. J Mol Evol 1991; 32:53-63.
6. Lokha MJ, Y Maisui. Formation in vitro of sperm pronuclei and mitotic chromosomes induced by amphibian ooplasmic components. Science 1983; 220:719-21.
7. Newport J. Nuclear reconstitution in vitro: stages of assembly around protein-free DNA. Cell 1987; 48:205-17.
8. Zhang CM, J Qiu, ZH Zhai. Nuclear reconstitution around purified Hela chromosomes in a cell-free system from Xenopus eggs. Acta Biol Exp Sinica 1994; 27:51-9.
9. Zhang B, Y Chen, ZH Zhai. Plant DNA fragments can induce nuclear reassembly in vitro in Xenopus egg extracts. Science in China 1995; 25:623-30.
10. Chen Y, B Zhang, XF Li, ZH Zhai. Association of DNA with nuclear matrix in in vitro assembled nuclei induced by rDNA from Tetrahymena shanghaiensis in Xenopus egg extracts. FEBS Letters 1997; 413:449-52.
11. Qu J, CM Zhang, ZH Zhai. Observation of nuclei reassembled from demembranated Xenopus sperm nuclei and analysis of their lamina components. Cell research 1994; 4:163-72.
12. Zhang B, Y Chen, ZY Han, H Ris, ZH Zhai. The role of keratin filaments during nuclear envelope reassembly in Xenopus egg extracts. FEBS. Letters 1998; 413:449-52.
13. Tuttle RC, ARIII Loeblech. An optimal growth medium for the dinoflagellate Crythecodinium cohnii. Phycologia 1975; 14:1-8.
14. Rizzo PJ. Biochemistry of the dinoflagellate nucleus. In: Talor FJR. eds. The Biology of Dinoflagellates. Blackwell Scientific: Osney Mead, Oxford, England 1987:143-73.
15. Rizzo PJ, LD Nooden. Chromosomal proteins in the dinoflagellate Gyrodinium C. cohnii. Science 1972; 176:796-7.
16. Rizzo PJ, RL Morris. Some properties of the histone-like protein from Crythecodinium cohnii (HCc). Bio Systems 1984; 16:211-6.
17. Vernet G, M Sala-Rovira, M Maeder, F Jacques, M Herzog. Basic nuclear proteins of the histone-less eukaryote Crythecodinium cohnii (Pyrrophyta): two-dimentional electrophoresis and DNA-binding properties. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1990; 1048:281-9.
18. Dimitrov S, MC Dasso, AP Wolffe. Remolding sperm chromatin in Xenopus Laevis egg extracts: the role of core histone phosphorylation and linker histone B4 in chromatin assembly. J Cell Biol 1994; 126:591-601.
19. Laskey RA, AD Mills, NR Morris. Assembly of SV40 chromatin in cell-free system from Xenopus eggs. Cell 1977; 10:237-43.
20. Hirano T, TJ Mitchison. Cell cycle control of higher-order chromatin assembly around naked DNA in vitro. J Cell Biol 1991; 115:1479-89.
21. Burke B, L Gerace. A cell-free system to study reassembly of the nuclear envelope at the end of mitosis. Cell 1986; 44:639-52.
22. Fisher P, M Berrios, G Blobel. Isolation and characterization of a proteinaceous subnuclear fraction composed of nuclear matrix, peripheral lamina, and nuclear pore complexes from embryos of Drosophila melenogaster. J Cell Biol 1982; 92:676-86.