Published November 11, 2013 // JCB vol. 203 no. 3 471-486
The Rockefeller University Press, doi: 10.1083/jcb.201303045

A novel chromatin tether domain controls topoisomerase IIα dynamics and mitotic chromosome formation

Video 9.
Live cell time-lapse microscopy using a DeltaVision microscope system to analyze DNA-associated Hoechst dye (greyscale). Frames were taken every 5 min. HeLa-EM2-11 mCherry–Topo IIα ΔChT cells were filmed while growing on glass-bottomed dishes after depletion of endogenous Topo IIα and release from concurrent synchrony in early S phase by double thymidine block. The absence of Doxycycline prevents induction of the exogenous mCherry–Topo IIα ΔChT. The cell undergoes aberrant chromosome condensation and failed chromosome segregation.