As seen in this merged fluorescent image (early anaphase marked with magenta;
late anaphase marked with green), such cells correct this problem by adjusting their cell membranes relative to the spindle (right), instead of shifting their spindles within the cell.
Despite this hard work from dynein, in roughly one - quarter of the cells observed, the spindle was misaligned, even after the paired chromosomes were pulled to opposite sides of the cell in
late anaphase.
Not exact matches
Kiyomitsu's
latest work focuses on the next step of mitosis, called
anaphase, when the microtubules tear the paired chromosomes apart so that one copy of each chromosome ends up in each of the new daughter cells.