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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 100, 675-682, Copyright © 1991 by Company of Biologists

Submitted on July 16, 1991
Accepted on August 7, 1991

The Complex Cell Cycle of the Dinoflagellate Protoctist Crypthecodinium Cohnii as Studied In Vivo and by Cytofluorimetry

YVONNE BHAUD 1, JEAN-MARIE SALMON 2, and MARIE-ODILE SOYER-GOBILLARD 1

1 Département de Biologie Cellulaire, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Laboratoire Arago, Université Paris 6, UA CNRS 117 66650 Banyuls sur mer, France
2 URA 1289, Microfluorimétrie Quantitative et Pharmacocinétique Cellulaire, 66025 Perpignan, France

The complete cell cycle of the dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii Biecheler 1938 was observed in vivo in a synchronized heterogeneous population, after DAPI staining of DNA. In a given population, the relative nuclear DNA content in each class of cell was measured using a new numerical image-analysis method that takes into account the total fluorescence intensity (FI), area (A) and shape factor (SF). The visible degree of synchronization of the population was determined from the number of cells with a nuclear content of 1C DNA at ‘synchronization’, time 0. One method of synchronization (method 1), based on the adhesiveness of the cysts, gave no better than 50% synchronization of the population; method 2, based on swimming cells released from cysts cultured on solid medium, gave 73% of cells with the same nuclear DNA content. A scatter plot of data for FI versus A in the first few hours after time 0 showed that the actual degree of synchronization of the population was lower.

The length of the C. cohnii cell cycle determined in vivo by light microscopy was 10, 16 or 24 h for vegetative cells giving two, four or eight daughter cells, respectively. Histograms based on the FI measurements showed that in an initially synchronized population observed for 20 h, the times for the first cell cycle were: G1 phase, 6 h; S phase, 1 h 30 min; G2+M, 1h 30 min, with the release of vegetative cells occurring 1 or 2h after the end of cytokinesis. The times for the second cell cycle were G1+S, 3h; G2+M, 2h.

FI and A taken together, suggested that the S phase is clearly restricted, as in higher eukaryotes. A and SF, taken together, showed that the large nuclear areas were always in cysts with two or four daughter cells. FI and SF, taken together, showed that the second S phase always occurred after completion of the first nuclear division.

Our data concerning the course of the cell cycle in C. cohnii are compared with those from earlier studies, and the control of the number of daughter cells is discussed; this does not depend on the ploidy of the mother cell.

Key words: cell cycle, synchronization, numerical image analysis, Crypthecodinium cohnii, dinoflagellate

Submitted on July 16, 1991
Accepted on August 7, 1991


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