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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 30, Issue 1 331-352, Copyright © 1978 by Company of Biologists
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B Byers, K Shriver and L Goetsch
The spindle poles of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have been removed from mitotic and meiotic cells by osmotic lysis of spheroplasts. The spindle pole bodies (SPBs)--diskoidal structures also termed 'spindle plaques'--have been analysed for their ability to potentiate the polymerization of microtubules in vitro. Free SPBs were completely deprived of any detectable native microtubules by incubation in the absence of added tubulin and were then challenged with chick neurotubulin, which had been rendered partially defective in self-initiation of repolymerization. Electron microscopy revealed that these SPBs served as foci for the initiation of microtubule polymerization in vitro. Because the attached microtubules elongated linearly with time but did not increase in numbers after the first stage of the reaction, it is apparent that there are a limited number of sites for initiation. The initiating potential of the SPBs was found to be inhibited by enzymic hydrolysis of protein but not of DNA. The microtubule end proximal to the site of initiation on the SPB is distinguished by a 'closed' appearance because of a terminal component which is continuous with the microtubule wall, whereas the distal end has the 'open' appearance characteristic of freely repolymerized neurotubules. SPBs which were partially purified on sucrose gradients retained their ability to initiate the assembly of microtubules with the same structural differentiation of their ends. The occurrence of closed proximal ends on native yeast microtubules suggests that closed ends may play a role in the initiation of microtubule polymerization in vivo, as well as in vitro.
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