Figure 4.
Migratory behavior of functionally defective topo IIβ mutants expressed in nucleus that are tagged with EGFP at C-terminus. (A) Summary of amino acid changes introduced to WT topo IIβ. (B) Assessment of in vivo topo IIβ activity by the band depletion assay. Activities for endogenous enzyme (labeled topo IIβ) and EGFP-fused exogenous one (topo IIβ-EGFP) can be discriminated by the size difference. EGFP-fused mutants are abbreviated: GI, G173I; LF, L178F; YS, Y814S. (C) Changes in the nuclear distribution of topo IIβ mutants after ICRF-193 treatment. Shown here are EGFP fluorescence images (upper panel; scale bar, 5 μm) and the ratio of nucleolar fluorescence to whole nuclear fluorescence (lower graph). The ratio was determined by using the ‘threshold’ and the ‘integrated density (IntDen)’ functions of ImageJ software. Bars, mean/SD (n = 50).