Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2014
Journal/Book/Conference Title
PLoS ONE
Volume
9
Issue
12
DOI of Original Publication
10.1371/journal.pone.0115726
Date of Submission
November 2015
Abstract
The equal partitioning of cell mass between daughters is the usual and expected outcome of cytokinesis for self-renewing cells. However, most studies of partitioning during cell division have focused on daughter cell shape symmetry or segregation of chromosomes. Here, we use live cell interferometry (LCI) to quantify the partitioning of daughter cell mass during and following cytokinesis. We use adherent and non-adherent mouse fibroblast and mouse and human lymphocyte cell lines as models and show that, on average, mass asymmetries present at the time of cleavage furrow formation persist through cytokinesis. The addition of multiple cytoskeleton-disrupting agents leads to increased asymmetry in mass partitioning which suggests the absence of active mass partitioning mechanisms after cleavage furrow positioning.
Rights
Zangle, T. A., Teitell, M. A., & Reed, J. Live Cell Interferometry Quantifies Dynamics of Biomass Partitioning during Cytokinesis. PLoS ONE, 9, e0115726. Copyright © 2014 Zangle et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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VCU Physics Publications
LCI data from a single dividing L cell pair.
S1_Movie.mp4 (1601 kB)
Movie of cell division shown in Fig. 2A. Movie of symmetrically dividing mouse L cell. Red outline shows the identified outline of cell by the watershed transform.
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Averaged relative mass and mean phase shift data for control (untreated) mouse L cells.
S2_Movie.mp4 (1740 kB)
Movie of cell division shown in Figure 2C. Movie of asymmetrically dividing mouse L cell. Red outline shows the identified outline of cell by the watershed transform.
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Effect of culture confluence on cell division asymmetry.
S3_Movie.mp4 (4033 kB)
Movie of cell division shown in Fig. 2E. Movie of dividing L cell showing change from asymmetric to symmetric mass partitioning.
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Cell tracking results from drug treatment experiments.
S4_Movie.mp4 (7065 kB)
Movie of cell division shown in Fig. 2G. Movie of dividing L cell showing change from symmetric to asymmetric mass partitioning.
S5_Fig.tif (1419 kB)
Shape factor dynamics during cell division with cytoskeletal inhibitors.
Comments
Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115726