1- Cell division 23 Oct

1- microtubule will connect directly to the DNA

3 different cytoskeletal

microtubule makes mitotic spindle

intermediate filament

they will rearrenge their position as well as the position of DNA throughout the cell division using kinesin and dynein

the nuclear lamina has to change their assembly throughout the cell division

actin filament

one extreme eg. of actin filament changes during cell division is a contractile ring form at the end of the cell division which is in the cytokinesis phase

key proteins during mitosis

M phase of the cell cycle

2- phases of the cell cycle

s phase: synthesising DNA to double
centrosome is sinthesized to become 2
so each daughter cell can have a centrosome

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interphase

consists of G1 , S and G2 phases

what happens at interphase:

s phase: replication of DNA and replication of centrosome
in interphase the morphology wise cell looks like to the one on the right hand side

  • NOT very condensed brown DNA siting everywhere whitin the nucleus
  • one centrosome light green centre of mictotubule
    -dynamically growing and shrinking microtubules
  • No interaction between nucleus and microtubule

at the end of the enterphase right before going to actual dividing phase

you need to have double the content of DNA whithin the nucleus
flowing around everywhere
a pair of centrosome so they can divide into 2

why do you think DNA is floating everywhere in nucleus rather than being compact as sister cromatid?

better to be uncoiled to be transcribed to make protein
DNA has to be read into messenger RNA and then protein
so if it is hardly coiled you need to uncoil it everytime you do any work so makes sense not to have any condensed DNA form within the nucleus

but when you divide into 2 if it is not hardly coiled then they would be a lot of mistake >>> mutation will happen >>> cancer

mitosis

pro phase is the first phase

a little of condensation happening
a little bit of white parts in the nucleus symbolising DNA becoming of coiled structure

mitosis spindle forming --- ⁉ being ready

prometaphase

nuclear envelop will be gone
microtubule can go in and start interacting with the sister chromatid>>> the coiled condensed form of DNA

metaphese

they finish connecting the microtubule to the sister chromatid
they are ready to pull then away

anaphase

pull microtubule away from eachother

devide the pair , each twards the centrosome

telophase

finished with pulling them apart

protect DNA information within nucleas envelope

forming a nulear envelop
see a little bit of actin ring

cytokineses

you can pinch out and
dived into 2 cell membrane

3- cell division- protein changes

cyclin changes

before s phase

G1/S- cyclin shoots up

during s phase

S-cycling will shoots up

before metaphase to anaphase

M-cyclin will shoot up

4- interphase

normal state of the cell

in the resting period so they are not growing

we have non condensed cromosome= decondensed in the nucleus sitting everywhere

right before the cell division should be double the content of
right after the cell division if they went through the sphase


and duplicated centrosome (after sphase)
if there is only one centrosome that means interphase before the s phase

we have normal microtubule in the cytoplasm

5- phrophase

condensing the DNA into more condensed form of chromosome

you will see a kinetochore which is usually in the centre of the chromosome where the centrosome actually make the binding

cenrtosome will form the mitotic spindle between them

you still have nuclear envelop

we have NOT finish the job of condensing chromosome

6- prometaphase

nuclear envelop will be gone

microtubule can access to the actual chromosome

they try and error to make the perfect binding to the kinetochore

one kinetochore has to bind to one centrosome and the other side of that pair has to be bound to the centrosome attach to the other side of the centrosome

there will be a lot of trial and error

7- meta phase

complete that trial and error and you make perfect binding through the kinethochore from either side of the centrosome at spindle pole

you have all the sister chromatids at the equator of that spindle pole
you have all DNA nicely condensed and lined at the middle line

no nuclear envelop

8- Anaphase

nuclear envelop not there

you pull each pair towards each pole of the centrosome

you see 2 groups of chromosome rather than one in the middle at metaphase

11- Mitotic spindle

9- Telophase

they are warping those DNA information within nuclear envelop , so they dont make any mistakes

you start seeing nuclear envelop structure

which is not perfect yet

there will be still a centrosome, interpolar microtubule still existing to control the position of these 2

if you dont have the middle green ones as interpolar microtubule

you dont have a great control of each centrosome, they might interact together and there might be a mix of the chromosome betw. those 2 which is not good

10- cytokinesis

dividing into 2 cells

contractile actin myosin ring form in the middle ,

they pinch it and it becomes 2 separate entity

interpolar microtubule will be gone soon

micro tubule structure

the pic is metaphase because chromosomes are nicely in the middle

we call this centrosome spindle pole

ASTRAL microtubule ⭐ does not interact with microtubule from the other side of the centrosome
they are helping positioning the spindle pole
interacting with the other portion or cell membrane

Kinetochore microtubule ⭐
we have microtubules interacting with microtbules from other side through kinetochore
impor. role : making perfect binding so they can do the job of dividing the chromosome into same 2 portions

interpolar microtubule ⭐
direct interaction
there are a lot of dynein and kinesin
interpola mic. will help positioning the spindle pole to the other spindle pole , so you push it away then cenrtosome will be further apart
if you want to pull them then centrosome will be closer to eachother

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12-major motor proteins of the spindle

a lot of dynein and kinesine work together with microtubule to control the position of the
1- pole
2- kinetochore bound DNA portion
3- their distance

dynein moves to minus end that helps making the distance between cell membrane to the centrosome closer

Kinesin -14 in the interpolar microtubule is the only exception of the kinesin moving to minus end

kinesin 4, 10 and 5 all move to plus end

kinesin 14 move to minus end

will pull the centrosome closer to theother centrosome

interesting looking kinesin which has 4 heads

kinesin 5 will move to plus end in both sides
that is going to be very efficient puting 2 centrosome together closer to eachother

kinesine 4,10 is important to make perfect binding of kinetochore microtubule to the kinetochore

use kinesin 4 and 10 and move around the actual chromatin chromosome to be able to put in the right position

kinetochor microtubule to make perfect binding

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13- what is doubling during the s phase

nuclei and centrosome

14- kinetochore and chromosome attachment

mechanism to explain how microtubule make perfect binding to the kinetochore

it is theory, it is not being totally proven
one of the explanations scientists came up with alot of evidences

microtubule just randomely going near the sister chromatid

those structure crossing with anti parallel cross linking at a nucleation level and then later they form some actual antiparallel structure with some kinesin and dynein and other types od kinesin will come in and move around those actual chromatin to the minus or plus end so they can fing the edge of microtubule which they have to actually bind

diagram on the bottom right:
energy wise when you dont have pathic ??? binding from the microtubule from the either side >>> it is enegetically not very stable

when kinetochore microtubule make a perfect binding to the kinetochore from either side will be more stable

keep trying until they find the perfect binding stats

15- the important protein is APC/C

there will be:
securin
cohesin
peparase

APC/C protein will kick in when anaphase has to happen

until the metaphase the 2 chromosome has to be perfectly paired

that is the job of protein cohesin ⭐
a ring structure wrapping around 2 sister chromatids so they are pair

when APC kicks in it will degrage the securin which secure the inactive form of separase

APC/C ⭐ will degerade the securin then inactive seperase can become active

Active separase will seperate the cohesin

there is no more ring so the kinetochore microtybul or interpolar microtubule pull away those sister chromatids into either side of the pole

the impo. is having the contractile ring

very concentrated levels of protein actin and myosin at the ring

it becomes smaller and smaller

you find a lot of cleavage furrow structure

that is the midbody right before they are aparting

another protein=formin

RhoA pathway will activate both formin and the Rock

which will end up promoting the actin filament formation as well as myosin 2 activation which will both work together

to make the contractile ring become more contractile so they can pinch out into 2 separate entity

16 - nuclear envelop

in the interphase you have nice intact nuclear envelop
because you dont want to loose any DNA to the cytosole

as soon as prometaphase happens all the nuclear envelop structure will be gone so microtubial can come in and intract with the chromosome

until telophase, more structured nuclear envelop forming in telophase
but not totally intact as interphase but at the end of the cell division you'll get the nuclear envelop back to normal again

if you want to stain nuclear lamina, during cell division, you should be able to draw what that staining look like through out cell division

summary slide has the key pints in cell division