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CIL:35123*  Cite 
Description

This time lapse series illustrates the early division up to the four-cell stage of a C. elegans embryo expressing YFP::CDC-48 by DIC and fluorescence microscopy. YFP::CDC-48, like YFP::UFD-1 and YFP::NPL-4, are cytosolic during mitosis, but accumulate in the nucleus after its reformation. The first C. elegans embryonic division of the P0 zygote is asymmetric and generates an anterior AB cell, and a smaller posterior P1 cell. These cells have different developmental fates and division timing, with AB dividing approximately 2 min before P1. Additionally, in early C. elegans embryonic cell cycles, S and M phases rapidly alternate without apparent gap phases. The movie corresponds to experiments shown in Fig. 1A and Fig. S1 and Movie 1 of Mouysset et al. Movie is CIL 25628 and original data file is CIL 35123.

Technical Details

The YFP translational fusion gene, YFP::cdc-48, was cloned into the pAZ-YFP(N-terminal) bombardement vector, which contains the pie-1 promoter for maternal expression and the unc-119(+) marker for selection of transgenic worms. The constructs were bombarded into unc-119(ed4) mutants. Eggs were extruded in M9 buffer from dissected adult worms and mounted on 2% agarose pads. Recordings were acquired in 20- or 10-second intervals (2 × 2 binning) with an Orca ER 12-bit digital camera (Hamamatsu) mounted on a wide-field microscope (Axioplan2, 40×/1.3 Plan-Apochromat objective; Carl Zeiss) or a spinning disk confocal microscope (Axioplan, 63×/1.4 Plan-Apochromat objective; Carl Zeiss; and Yokogawa disk head). Image processing was done with AxioVision (Carl Zeiss) or MetaMorph software (Universal Imaging).

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Caenorhabditis elegans
Cell Type
early embryonic cell
Cell Line
unc-119(ed3)
Cellular Component
nucleus
Cdc48p-Npl4p-Ufd1p AAA ATPase complex
Biological Context
Biological Process
mitosis
cell division
nucleus organization
Molecular Function
ATPase activity
Attribution
Names
Julien Mouysset
Alexandra Deichsel
Sandra Moser
Carsten Hoege
Anthony A. Hyman
Anton Gartner
Thorsten Hoppe
Published
Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2008. 105: 12879-12884.
Pubmed
18728180
Link
Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL35123
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil35123
Grouping This image is part of a group.
Sample Preparation
Methods
living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell
whole mounted tissue
Dimensions
Spatial Axis Image Size Pixel Size
X 492px ——
Y 164px ——