Log on / register
Feedback | Support | My details
Open AccessHighly AccessResearch article

Regulation of cell cycle by the anaphase spindle midzone

Maki Murata-Hori1,2 email, Greenfield Sluder3 email and Yu-li Wang1 email

1Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 377 Plantation St., Worcester, Massachusetts, 01605, USA

2Mammalian Cell Biology Group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, 117604, Singapore

3Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 377 Plantation St., Worcester, Massachusetts, 01605, USA

author email corresponding author email

BMC Cell Biology 2004, 5:49doi:10.1186/1471-2121-5-49

Published: 23 December 2004

Additional files


Additional File 1:

Interphase progression of the daughter cells with and without spindle midzone. An NRK cell was severed at early anaphase to form daughter cells with and without spindle midzone. Subsequently, time-lapse imaging was performed to investigate if anaphase spindle midzone was involved in interphase progression. The daughter cell with spindle midzone showed a cytokinsis-like cortical contraction and entered into the subsequent mitosis 11 h 23 min after microsurgery, while the daughter cell without spindle midzone showed no cortical contraction and entered into mitosis 23 h 8 min after microsurgery.

Format: MOV Size: 9.9MB Download file

Playing the movie within this page requires QuickTime and JavaScript. Read more


Additional File 2:

Interphase progression of the daughter cells with and without midbody. An NRK cell was severed at telophase to form daughter cells with and without midbody. Subsequently, time-lapse imaging was performed to investigate if midbody was involved in interphase progression. The daughter cell with midbody entered into the subsequent mitosis 7 h 35 min after microsurgery, while the daughter cell without midbody entered into mitosis 9 h 25 min after microsurgery.

Format: MOV Size: 2.8MB Download file

Playing the movie within this page requires QuickTime and JavaScript. Read more


© 1999-2009 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Part of Springer Science+Business Media.