Duplantier B, Jannink G, Sikorav J L
Service de Physique Théorique, CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Biophys J. 1995 Oct;69(4):1596-605. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(95)80032-9.
Sister chromatids are topologically intertwined at the onset of anaphase: their segregation during anaphase is known to require strand-passing activity by type II DNA topoisomerase. We propose that the removal of the intertwinings involves at the same time the traction of the mitotic spindle and the activity of topoisomerases. This implies that the velocity of the chromatids is compatible with the kinetic constraints imposed by the enzymatic reaction. We show that the greatest observed velocities (about 0.1 microns s-1) are close to the theoretical upper bound compatible with both the diffusion rate (calculated here within a probabilistic model) and the measured reaction rate of the enzyme.
在后期开始时,姐妹染色单体在拓扑结构上相互缠绕:已知它们在后期的分离需要II型DNA拓扑异构酶的链通过活性。我们提出,去除缠绕同时涉及有丝分裂纺锤体的牵引和拓扑异构酶的活性。这意味着染色单体的速度与酶促反应所施加的动力学限制是相容的。我们表明,观察到的最大速度(约0.1微米/秒)接近与扩散速率(在此概率模型内计算)和酶的测量反应速率都相容的理论上限。