Centripetal nuclear shape fluctuations associate with chromatin condensation in early prophase

Autor: Viola Introini, Gururaj Rao Kidiyoor, Giancarlo Porcella, Pietro Cicuta, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05074-9
Popis: Abstract The nucleus plays a central role in several key cellular processes, including chromosome organisation, DNA replication and gene transcription. Recent work suggests an association between nuclear mechanics and cell-cycle progression, but many aspects of this connection remain unexplored. Here, by monitoring nuclear shape fluctuations at different cell cycle stages, we uncover increasing inward fluctuations in late G2 and in early prophase, which are initially transient, but develop into instabilities when approaching the nuclear-envelope breakdown. We demonstrate that such deformations correlate with chromatin condensation by perturbing both the chromatin and the cytoskeletal structures. We propose that the contrasting forces between an extensile stress and centripetal pulling from chromatin condensation could mechanically link chromosome condensation with nuclear-envelope breakdown, two main nuclear processes occurring during mitosis.
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