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dc.creatorLeonova,Olga G
dc.creatorKarajan,Bella P
dc.creatorIvlev,Yuri F
dc.creatorIvanova,Julia L
dc.creatorSkarlato,Sergei O
dc.creatorPopenko,Vladimir I
dc.date2013-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-02T21:22:10Z
dc.date.available2019-05-02T21:22:10Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602013000100010
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/82276
dc.descriptionWe have earlier shown that the typical Didinium nasutum nucleolus is a complex convoluted branched domain, comprising a dense fibrillar component located at the periphery of the nucleolus and a granular component located in the central part. Here our main interest was to study quantitatively the spatial distribution of nucleolar chromatin structures in these convoluted nucleoli. There are no "classical" fibrillar centers in D.nasutum nucleoli. The spatial distribution of nucleolar chromatin bodies, which play the role of nucleolar organizers in the macronucleus of D.nasutum, was studied using 3D reconstructions based on serial ultrathin sections. The relative number of nucleolar chromatin bodies was determined in macronuclei of recently fed, starved D.nasutum cells and in resting cysts. This parameter is shown to correlate with the activity of the nucleolus. However, the relative number of nucleolar chromatin bodies in different regions of the same convoluted nucleolus is approximately the same. This finding suggests equal activity in different parts of the nucleolar domain and indicates the existence of some molecular mechanism enabling it to synchronize this activity in D. nasutum nucleoli. Our data show that D. nasutum nucleoli display bipartite structure. All nucleolar chromatin bodies are shown to be located outside of nucleoli, at the periphery of the fibrillar component.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherSociedad de Biología de Chile
dc.relation10.4067/S0716-97602013000100010
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceBiological Research v.46 n.1 2013
dc.subject3D reconstruction
dc.subjectciliates
dc.subjectelectron microscopy
dc.subjectmacronucleus
dc.subjectnucleoli
dc.titleQuantitative analysis of nucleolar chromatin distribution in the complex convoluted nucleoli of Didinium nasutum (Ciliophora)


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