Amitosis as a strategy of cell division - Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronucleus
Fu, Y.-X.; Wang, G.; Chen, K.; Ma, X.; Liu, S.; Miao, W.
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Cell division is a necessity of life which can be either mitotic or amitotic. While both are fundamental, amitosis is sometimes considered a relic of little importance in biology. Nevertheless, eukaryotes often have polyploid cells, including cancer cells, which may divide amitotically. To understand how amitosis ensures the completion of cell division, we turn to the macronuclei of ciliates. The grand scheme governing the proliferation of the macronuclei of ciliate cells, which involves chromosomal replication and the amitosis, is currently unknown. Using a novel model that encompasses a wide range of mechanisms together with experimental data of the composition of mating types at different stages derived from a single karyonide of Tetrahymena thermophila, we show that the chromosomal replication of the macronucleus has a strong head-start effect, with only about five copies of chromosomes replicated at a time and persistent reuse of the chromosomes involved in the early replication. Furthermore the fission of a fully grown macronucleus is non-random, with a strong tendency to push chromosomes and their replications to the same daughter cell. Similar strategies may exist for other Tetrahymena species or ciliates, and have implications to the amitosis of polyploid cells of multicellular organisms.
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