bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/232199; this version posted December 11, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Ultrastructural analysis of intracellular membrane and microtubule behavior during mitosis of Drosophila S2 cells Anton Strunov1, 2, Lidiya V. Boldyreva1, Evgeniya N. Andreyeva1, Gera A. Pavlova1, Julia V. Popova1, 2, Alena V. Razuvaeva1, 3, Alina F. Anders1, 3, Fioranna Renda4, 5, Alexey V. Pindyurin1, 2, 3, Maurizio Gatti1, 4, Elena Kiseleva1, 2 1 Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia 2 Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia 3 Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia 4 IBPM CNR and Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy 5 Present address: Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201, USA Running Title: Ultrastructural analysis of S2 cell mitosis Keywords: S2 cells, Drosophila, nuclear membranes, spindle microtubules, kinetochores. Correspondence: Anton Strunov:
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[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/232199; this version posted December 11, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Abstract S2 cells are one of the most widely used Drosophila melanogaster cell lines for molecular dissection of mitosis using RNA interference (RNAi). However, a detailed and complete description of S2 cell mitosis at the ultrastructural level is still missing.