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. 2014 Feb 17;24(4):R144-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.023.

Illuminating DNA replication during Drosophila development using TALE-lights

Kai Yuan  1 , Antony W Shermoen  1 , Patrick H O'Farrell  2
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Illuminating DNA replication during Drosophila development using TALE-lights

Kai Yuan et al. Curr Biol. .
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Figure 1
Timing events of the late replication program in embryos using TALE-lights. (A) A schematic of the chromosome complement of a male Drosophila with the positions of 359-bp repeats and 1.686 repeats illustrated. (B) Cartoon of two TALE-lights, with colored domains having different nucleotide specificities, each recognizing two repeats of the 1.686 sequence (details in Supplemental Experimental Procedures). (C) Two-color imaging of 359–RFP (red) and 1.686–GFP (green) TALE-lights throughout cycle 13. Early and slight decompaction of the single 359-bp focus is followed by the more dramatic decompaction of all four of the 1.686 foci. The sequences recompact, initially without obvious duplication into sisters, but on entry into mitosis the duplication of 1.686 foci is evident as pairs of sister foci at the metaphase plate. Staining by TALE-lights declines during mitosis, and this is particularly dramatic for the 359-bp probes. (D) An embryo injected with GFP–PCNA and 1.686–RFP TALE-light was imaged in cycle 14 before and after initiation of replication of the 1.686 and a single nucleus is shown. The recruitment of PCNA to the satellite foci at the time of their decompaction is illustrated and levels of fluorescence are quantified along the indicated line. Note that homolog pairing, a well known phenomenon in Drosophila begins in cycle 14 and the number of 1.686 foci decline from four to three to two with substantial nucleus to nucleus variation during cycle 14. (E) A cycle 15 nucleus in an embryo injected with GFP–PCNA and 359–RFP TALE-light showing the recruitment of GFP–PCNA to the RFP focus. (F) A time line illustrating the changing duration of the embryonic cell cycles and their S phases along with the timing of the replication of the satellite sequences. Illustrative frames from the movies are shown for 359-bp in cycles 14 and 15. Note that a variable length G2 is introduced in cycle 14 and this is indicated by interrupted blue line segment. Bars: 3 μm.
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