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I A Vorobjev

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Centriolar location during blood cell spreading and motion in vitro: an ultrastructural analysis.

Different motile blood cells behave differently on a glass surface. Macrophages go through all the stages of spreading described previously for fibroblasts; granulocytes become polarized after a short stage of radial spreading, while the polarization of lymphocytes takes place immediately upon attachment. The active centrioles of the cells we have studied orient their distal ends towards the upper cell surface. The centrioles in blood cells have a different location with respect to the nucleus and the leading edge of the cell: in macrophages the centrioles are situated mostly anterior to or at the side of the nucleus; in granulocytes they lie between the nuclear segments; and in lymphocytes they are positioned strictly posterior to the nucleus, in the uropod. In each case, however, the centrioles are localized in the central region of the cytoplasm. Their alignment does not appear to be related to the blood cells' random motion in vitro.

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Diazepam inhibits cell respiration and induces fragmentation of mitochondrial reticulum.

Diazepam (70-150 micrograms/ml) significantly inhibits oxygen consumption by pig kidney embryo cells and causes the cellular ATP level to fall. The maximum inhibitory effect develops after 1.5-2.5 h of diazepam treatment. In isolated mitochondria diazepam inhibits respiration in state 2 and 3u with glutamate and in state 3u with succinate. Ethylrhodamine staining and electron microscopic study reveal fragmentation of mitochondria in living cells.

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The dynamics of reconstitution of microtubules around the cell center after cooling.

In interphase PE cells, after cooling (2 h at 0 degree C), some microtubules are retained in the cytoplasm. After the transfer of the cells to a thermostat (37 degrees C), the reconstitution of the microtubule network begins near the cell center. At this time in most of the cells around the center one can see the electron-dense foci of convergence of microtubules which then disappear. The number of microtubules diverging radially from the mother centriole reaches a maximum after 15 to 16 min, that of microtubules growing from the daughter centriole 12 min after the cells are placed at 37 degrees C. 45 min after the heating started the number of radially diverging microtubules somewhat exceeds the control level. These data show that microtubules are associated with the centers only during their growth. The mature microtubule is separated from the center and may be replaced by a new one. Thus, most, of not all, microtubules originate from the cell center, but at any moment only some of the microtubules are associated with it.

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Centrioles in the cell cycle. I. Epithelial cells.

A study was made of the structure of the centrosome in the cell cycle in a nonsynchronous culture of pig kidney embryo (PE) cells. In the spindle pole of the metaphase cell there are two mutually perpendicular centrioles (mother and daughter) which differ in their ultrastructure. An electron-dense halo, which surrounds only the mother centriole and is the site where spindle microtubules converge, disappears at the end of telophase. In metaphase and anaphase, the mother centriole is situated perpendicular to the spindle axis. At the beginning of the G1 period, pericentriolar satellites are formed on the mother centriole with microtubules attached to them; the two centrioles diverge. The structures of the two centrioles differ throughout interphase; the mother centriole has appendages, the daughter does not. Replication of the centrioles occurs approximately in the middle of the S period. The structure of the procentrioles differs sharply from that of the mature centriole. Elongation of procentrioles is completed in prometaphase, and their structure undergoes a number of successive changes. In the G2 period, pericentriolar satellites disappear and some time later a fibrillar halo is formed on both mother centrioles, i.e., spindle poles begin to form. In the cells that have left the mitotic cycle (G0 period), replication of centrioles does not take place; in many cells, a cilium is formed on the mother centriole. In a small number of cells a cilium is formed in the S and G2 periods, but unlike the cilium in the G0 period it does not reach the surface of the cell. In all cases, it locates on the centriole with appendages. At the beginning of the G1 period, during the G2 period, and in nonciliated cells in the G0 period, one of the centrioles is situated perpendicular to the substrate. On the whole, it takes a mature centriole a cycle and a half to form in PE cells.

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The ultrastructure of centriole in mammalian tissue culture cells.

Structural polarity of centriole has been shown by analyzing serial sections of centrioles in the tissue culture cells of mouse, man, pig and Chinese hamster. Its major component is nine microtubule triplets. The inclination of the triplets towards the radius at the proximal end of the centriole is smaller than at the distal one. The internal tubule of the triplet has a smaller diameter than the middle and external ones; The triplets are bound by links of various nature all over their length. In the middle part, in the centriole lumen there is an amorphous hub; in the distal part, a thin fibre that is helically wound. In the proximal part, there are bases along the triplets, and handles stretch from the internal tubules. In the middle and distal parts, there are accumulations of an electron dense substance along the middle tubules. At the distal end, the centriole lumen is filled with an amorphous substance, whereas the proximal end is free from it. From outside, appendages are attached to the triplets at the distal end. The centriole structure is identical in all the cell types studied, except for those of Chinese hamster.

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Centrosome behavior under the action of a mitochondrial uncoupler and the effect of disruption of cytoskeleton elements on the uncoupler-induced alterations.

Carbonyl cyanide p-(trifluoromethoxy)phenylhydrazone (FCCP) induced in pig kidney embryo cells a loss of rhodamine 123 staining of mitochondria in 2-3 min. Within 5 min after FCCP inoculation of cells prestained with rhodamine 123, the diffuse staining of the cytoplasm was absent. FCCP did not induce changes in the cytoplasmic microtubule complex, but induced nonrandom (preferentially perpendicular to the substrate surface) orientation of maternal centrioles. Nonrandom orientation of maternal centrioles occurred 10 min after treatment and remained for 2 hr. At 30 min after introduction of the drug, FCCP treatment increased the mean number of pericentriolar satellites on maternal centrioles and the frequency of primary cilia. The percentage of centrioles perpendicular to the substrate induced by FCCP treatment was slightly increased by disruption of microtubules and slightly diminished by disruption of microfilaments. In both cases centrioles were oriented significantly differently from random (P < 0.01). These results suggest that microtubules are neither involved in the signaling pathway from plasma membrane to the centriole, nor do they anchor the centrioles perpendicular to the substrate, as proposed by Albrecht-Buehler and Bushnell (Experimental Cell Research 120, 1979).

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