Effect of temperature on nuclear membranes and nucleo-cytoplasmic RNA-transport in Tetrahymena grown at different temperatures
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Effect of temperature on nuclear membranes and nucleo-cytoplasmic RNA-transport in Tetrahymena grown at different temperatures
Abstract
The effect of temperature on the nuclear envelope structure and the transport of total RNA and ribosomal subunits from nucleus to cytoplasm was examined in Tetrahymena cells propagated at two different temperatures. Freeze-etch electron microscopy of cells grown at 23 and 18 degrees C detects the emergence of smooth areas on the fracture faces of the nuclear membranes upon lowering the temperature below approximately 15 and approximately 12 degrees C, respectively. Coincident with these freeze-etch changes, a discontinuous decrease is observed in the nucleocytoplasmic RNA-transport; this is probably not due to a cease in RNA-synthesis. Below the thermotropic discontinuity observed in the transport of total RNA in 18 degrees-cells the nucleocytoplasmic transport of the small and large ribosomal subunits is equally retarded. Recent temperature studies on the endoplasmic reticulum membranes of Tetrahymena suggest that the freeze-etch changes in the nuclear membranes are induced by a thermotropic clustering of the membrane lipids. We conclude that this lipid clustering induces the permanent protein constituents in the nuclear envelope pore complexes to change from a relatively "open" into a relatively "closed" state thus causing the observed decrease in RNA-transport.
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