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The stellate projections are clearly delineated even at their termini, and the cell bodies do not demonstrate a flattened, oval, or spindle phenotype.
Our finding of a decrease in the frequency response at the highest velocity of stretch used (100 μm/msec) shows a limitation of the primary muscle spindle in coding for rapid length changes.
First, cohesion close to the centromere facilitates bi-orientation of chromosomes, such that each chromosome becomes attached to the two poles of the spindle [6].
Proteasome activity is required for germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) in starfish and toad oocytes [ 44 45 ] and for activating Xenopus oocytes [ 45 46 ] . Also, proteasomes are needed for regulating centrosome segregation [ 38 47 ] , kinetochore structure [ 39 ] , and sister chromatid cohesion and separation [ 48 ] . When rat oocytes were exposed to the proteasome inhibitor MG132, proteasomes translocated to the meiotic spindle, MPF activity was sustained, and oocytes were arrested in MI with partially segregated chromosomes [ 42 ] .
We tested if these spots were associated with the spindle pole body (SPB), given that an ultimate receiver of the checkpoint signal, Cdc2, resides at the SPB prior to mitosis in fission yeast [ 61 ] . However, these Rad26-GFP foci did not co-localize with a SPB marker, Sad1 (data not shown) [ 62 ] .