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Growing microtubules push the oocyte nucleus to polarize the Drosophila dorsal-ventral axis.


ABSTRACT: The Drosophila dorsal-ventral (DV) axis is polarized when the oocyte nucleus migrates from the posterior to the anterior margin of the oocyte. Prior work suggested that dynein pulls the nucleus to the anterior side along a polarized microtubule cytoskeleton, but this mechanism has not been tested. By imaging live oocytes, we find that the nucleus migrates with a posterior indentation that correlates with its direction of movement. Furthermore, both nuclear movement and the indentation depend on microtubule polymerization from centrosomes behind the nucleus. Thus, the nucleus is not pulled to the anterior but is pushed by the force exerted by growing microtubules. Nuclear migration and DV axis formation therefore depend on centrosome positioning early in oogenesis and are independent of anterior-posterior axis formation.

SUBMITTER: Zhao T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3459055 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Growing microtubules push the oocyte nucleus to polarize the Drosophila dorsal-ventral axis.

Zhao Tongtong T   Graham Owen S OS   Raposo Alexandre A   St Johnston Daniel D  

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120412 6084


The Drosophila dorsal-ventral (DV) axis is polarized when the oocyte nucleus migrates from the posterior to the anterior margin of the oocyte. Prior work suggested that dynein pulls the nucleus to the anterior side along a polarized microtubule cytoskeleton, but this mechanism has not been tested. By imaging live oocytes, we find that the nucleus migrates with a posterior indentation that correlates with its direction of movement. Furthermore, both nuclear movement and the indentation depend on  ...[more]

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