title: Kinetics of spindle pole body separation in budding yeast.
abstract: In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the spindle pole body (SPB) serves as the microtubule-organizing center and is the functional analog of the centrosome of higher organisms. By expressing a fusion of a yeast SPB-associated protein to the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein, the movement of the SPBs in living yeast cells undergoing mitosis was observed by fluorescence microscopy. The ability to visualize SPBs in vivo has revealed previously unidentified mitotic events. During anaphase, the mitotic spindle has four sequential activities: alignment at the mother-daughter junction, fast elongation, translocation into the bud, and slow elongation. These results indicate that distinct forces act upon the spindle at different times during anaphase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kahana
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Schnapp
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Silver
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D018385:Centrosome / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D007700:Kinetics; D008164:Luminescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008938:Mitosis / Q000502:physiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008164:Luminescent Proteins; C087340:NUF2 protein, S cerevisiae; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins