The Acrylamide FISH Protocol for Pollen Mother Cells (etc)

Note: 3D Acryl FISH method to be published in 2012, ES Howe et al.

The  1 page short protocol  is here:
FISH_meth_short.html

The  long, detailed protocol  from anther fixation to scope
is here.
The latest version, AcrFISH4.doc, is here (12/99).
Web page version AcrFISH4.html
or text file version AcrFISH4.txt

I developed this procedure by adapting the FISH and embedding protocols
used by Abby Dernburg and Sue Parmelee in the Sedat lab.
This protocol was used to analyze the telomere bouquet stage of meiotic 
prophase.  The Bass et al. (1997) contains the the original complete
description of this method for use with higher plant meiocytes. 
See also methods chapter due out some time in 2012, Methods in Mol Biol, 
ES Howe, SP Murphy, & HW Bass, in Plant Meiosis Methods).

In addition to maize meiotic cells, we have successfully used 
this protocol to obtain 3-D FISH images from root tips,
shoot meristems, or vibratome-sections from maize, arabidopsis, 
tobacco, oat, and lily.  This method provides good preservation 
of the nucleus, even during FISH.

Bass H.W., Marshall, W.F., Sedat J.W., Agard D.A., and Cande W.Z. (1997) 
  Telomeres cluster de novo before the initiation of synapsis; a 3-dimensional
  spatial analysis of telomere positions before and during meiotic prophase
  J Cell Biol 137(1):5-18

Thanks to Lisa Harper for help in initial writing of the long protocol.

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