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Chromosome Movement In Mitosis Requires Microtubule Anchorage At Spindle Poles, Michael B. Gordon, Louisa Howard, Duane A. Compton
Chromosome Movement In Mitosis Requires Microtubule Anchorage At Spindle Poles, Michael B. Gordon, Louisa Howard, Duane A. Compton
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Anchorage of microtubule minus ends at spindle poles has been proposed to bear the load of poleward forces exerted by kinetochore-associated motors so that chromosomes move toward the poles rather than the poles toward the chromosomes. To test this hypothesis, we monitored chromosome movement during mitosis after perturbation of nuclear mitotic apparatus protein (NuMA) and the human homologue of the KIN C motor family (HSET), two noncentrosomal proteins involved in spindle pole organization in animal cells. Perturbation of NuMA alone disrupts spindle pole organization and delays anaphase onset, but does not alter the velocity of oscillatory chromosome movement in prometaphase. …