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V Guacci, E Hogan and D Koshland
Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland 21210, USA.
Although general features of chromosome movement during the cell cycle are conserved among all eukaryotic cells, particular aspects vary between organisms. Understanding the basis for these variations should provide significant insight into the mechanism of chromosome movement. In this context, establishing the types of chromosome movement in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is important since the complexes that mediate chromosome movement (microtubule organizing centers, spindles, and kinetochores) appear much simpler in this organism than in many other eukaryotic cells. We have used fluorescence in situ hybridization to begin an analysis of chromosome movement in budding yeast. Our results demonstrate that the position of yeast centromeres changes as a function of the cell cycle in a manner similar to other eukaryotes. Centromeres are skewed to the side of the nucleus containing the spindle pole in G1; away from the poles in mid-M and clustered near the poles in anaphase and telophase. The change in position of the centromeres relative to the spindle poles supports the existence of anaphase A in budding yeast. In addition, an anaphase A- like activity independent of anaphase B was demonstrated by following the change in centromere position in telophase-arrested cells upon depolymerization and subsequent repolymerization of microtubules. The roles of anaphase A activity and G1 centromere positioning in the segregation of budding yeast chromosomes are discussed. The fluorescence in situ hybridization methodology and experimental strategies described in this study provide powerful new tools to analyze mutants defective in specific kinesin-like molecules, spindle components, and centromere factors, thereby elucidating the mechanism of chromosome movement.
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