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1 Center for Evolutionary Genetics CNR, c/o Department of Genetics and Molecular
Biology, University `La Sapienza', Via degli Apuli 4, 00185 Rome, Italy
2 Department of Biology, CB#3280, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: f.degrassi{at}caspur.it)
Accepted 1 November 2001
Defects in chromosome segregation play a critical role in producing genomic instability and aneuploidy, which are associated with congenital diseases and carcinogenesis. We recently provided evidence from immunofluorescence and electron microscopy studies that merotelic kinetochore orientation is a major mechanism for lagging chromosomes during mitosis in PtK1 cells. Here we investigate whether human primary fibroblasts exhibit similar errors in chromosome segregation and if at least part of lagging chromosomes may arise in cells entering anaphase in the presence of mono-oriented chromosomes. By using in situ hybridization with alphoid probes to chromosome 7 and 11 we showed that loss of a single sister is much more frequent than loss of both sisters from the same chromosome in anatelophases from human primary fibroblasts released from a nocodazole-induced mitotic arrest, as predicted from merotelic orientation of single kinetochores. Furthermore, the lagging of pairs of separated sisters was higher than expected from random chance indicating that merotelic orientation of one sister may promote merotelic orientation of the other. Kinetochores of lagging chromosomes in anaphase human cells were found to be devoid of the mitotic checkpoint phosphoepitopes recognized by the 3F3/2 antibody, suggesting that they attached kinetochore microtubules prior to anaphase onset. Live cell imaging of H2B histone-GFP-transfected cells showed that cells with mono-oriented chromosomes never enter anaphase and that lagging chromosomes appear during anaphase after chromosome alignment occurs during metaphase. Thus, our results demonstrate that the mitotic checkpoint efficiently prevents the possible aneuploid burden due to mono-oriented chromosomes and that merotelic kinetochore orientation is a major limitation for accurate chromosome segregation and a potentially important mechanism of aneuploidy in human cells.
Key words: Lagging chromosomes, Merotelic orientation, Mono-orientation, Mitotic checkpoint, Aneuploidy
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