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To examine the effects exerted on the microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton by dinitrophenol/deoxyglucose (DNP/DOG) and nocodazole, live PtK1 cells were treated with the drugs and then fixed and examined by immunofluorescence staining and electronmicroscopy. DNP/DOG had little effect on interphase MTs. In mitotic cells, kinetochore and some astral fibers were clearly shortened in metaphase figures by DNP/DOG. Nocodazole rapidly broke down spindle MTs (except those in the midbody), while interphase cells showed considerable variation in the susceptibility of their MTs. Nocodazole had little effect on MTs in energy-depleted (DNP/DOG-treated) cells. When cytoplasmic MTs had all been broken down by prolonged nocodazole treatment and the cells then released from the nocodazole block into DNP/DOG, some MT reassembly occurred in the ATP-depleted state. MTs in permeabilized, extracted cells were also examined with antitubulin staining; the well-preserved interphase and mitotic arrays of MTs showed no susceptibility to nocodazole. In contrast, MTs suffered considerable breakdown by ATP, GTP and ATPγS; AMPPNP had little effect. This susceptibility of extracted MT cytoskeleton to nucleotide phosphates was highly variable; some interphase cells lost all MTs, most were severely affected, but some retained extensive MT networks; mitotic spindles were diminished but structurally coherent and more stable than most interphase MT arrays.
We suggest that: 1. in the living cell, ATP or nucleotide triphosphates (NTPs) are necessary for normal and nocodazole-induced MT disassembly; 2. the NTP requirement may be for phosphorylation; 3. shortening of kinetochore fibers may be modulated by compression and require ATP; 4. many of these results cannot be accomodated by the dynamic equilibrium theory of MT assembly/disassembly; 5. the use and role of ATP on isolated spindles may have to be reevaluated due to the effects ATP has on the spindle cytoskeleton of permeabilized cells.
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Spurck, T.P., Pickett-Heaps, J.D. & Klymkowsky, M.W. Metabolic inhibitors and mitosis: II. Effects of dinitrophenol/deoxyglucose and nocodazole on the microtubule cytoskeleton. Protoplasma 131, 60–74 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01281687
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