Fig. 5. Elimination of zygotic fizzy-related expression restores
progression through mitosis 16 and induces an extra division cycle in the
epidermis of CycA mutants. (A-D) High magnification views
of the embryonic epidermis after anti-tubulin labeling (Tub) at stage 12 when
epidermal cells are already post-mitotic in wild-type embryogenesis. The
reduced cell density resulting from the failure of the terminal mitosis 16 in
CycAC8LR1 mutants (D, CycA-) is not
present in fzrie28; CycAC8LR1 double
mutants (C, fzr- CycA-), which have the same
cell density as sibling control embryos (A, +) and
fzrie28 single mutant embryos (B,
fzr-). (E-G) High magnification views of the
embryonic epidermis after anti-Cyclin B labeling (CycB) at stage 13. Although
Cyclin B does not accumulate after mitosis 16 in the post-mitotic epidermal
cells of sibling control embryos (E, +), it reaccumulates during an
extra division cycle 17 not only in fzrie28 single (F,
fzr-) mutants (Sigrist
and Lehner, 1997), but also in fzrie28;
CycAC8LR1 double mutant embryos (G, fzr-
CycA-). Cyclin B is also again degraded during the additional
mitosis 17 (for examples see arrows in F,G). (H,I) Mitotic
figures observed during the additional cell division 17 in
fzrie28 single (H, fzr-) and in
fzrie28; CycAC8LR1 double (I,
fzr- CycA-) mutant embryos after anti-tubulin
(Tub) and DNA labeling (DNA). Normal prophase, prometaphase, metaphase,
anaphase and telophase figures are shown from left to right in H and I. In
addition, abnormal anaphase and telophase figures with chromatin bridges were
also present in the fzrie28; CycAC8LR1
double mutant embryos, as illustrated by the two right most panels in I.