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A switch in microtubule orientation during C. elegans meiosis

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  • In oocytes of many organisms, meiotic spindles form in the absence of centrosomes [1–5]. Such female meiotic spindles have a pointed appearance in metaphase with microtubules focused at acentrosomal spindle poles. At anaphase, the microtubules of acentrosomal spindles then transition to an inter- chromosomal array, while the spindle poles disappear. This transition is currently not understood. Previous studies have focused on this inter- chromosomal microtubule array and proposed a pushing model to drive chromosome segregation [6, 7]. This model includes an end-on orientation of microtubules with chromosomes. Alternatively, chromosomes were thought to associate along bundles of microtubules [8, 9]. Starting with metaphase, this second model proposed a pure lateral chromosome-to-microtubule association up to the final meiotic stages of anaphase. Here we applied large-scale electron tomography [10] of staged C. elegans oocytes in meiosis to analyze the orientation of microtubules in respect to chromosomes. We show that microtubules at metaphase I are primarily oriented laterally to the chromosomes and that microtubules switch to an end-on orientation during progression through anaphase. We further show that this switch in microtubule orientation involves a kinesin-13 microtubule depolymerase, KLP-7, which removes laterally associated microtubules around chromosomes. From this we conclude that both lateral and end-on modes of microtubule-to-chromosome orientations are successively used in C. elegans oocytes to segregate meiotic chromosomes.

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Author:Stefanie Redemann, Ina Lantzsch, Norbert LindowORCiD, Steffen Prohaska, Martin Srayko, Thomas Müller-Reichert
Document Type:ZIB-Report
Date of first Publication:2018/08/07
Series (Serial Number):ZIB-Report (18-34)
ISSN:1438-0064
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