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Confocal Microscopy Protocol for Imaging

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Images were acquired on the acousto-optical beam splitter confocal laser-scanning microscope (SP5; Leica) with the following objectives: HC Plan Fluotar 20×, 0.5 multi-immersion (numerical aperture: 0.7), HCX Plan Apochromat 40× 1.25–0.75 oil (numerical aperture: 1.25), and HCX Plan Apochromat 63× 1.4–0.6 oil (numerical aperture: 1.4) using the acquisition software LAS AF (Leica) at the PLATIM imaging facility and analyzed with ImageJ (National Institutes of Health). Unless otherwise indicated, all images are projections of confocal sections.
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Embryo Positioning and Imaging Techniques

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Embryos were mounted on 2% agarose pads in a drop of M9 medium and recordings were performed in a room maintained at 20°C or 25°C (see Table S2 for details). For experiments with α-tubulin::YFP nmy-2(ne1490); ani-1(RNAi); par-4(it47) embryos, worms were grown on RNAi plates at 20°C, dissected, and quickly shifted to 25°C for microscopy. Embryos that were undergoing mitosis during the temperature shift were recorded. Many embryos carrying the nmy-2(ne1490) mutation did not have cytokinetic furrow ingression but some still displayed at least partial furrow ingression. In a few cases, embryos had a centrally positioned spindle; those embryos were not included in the quantifications of aster/furrow distance.
DIC recordings were performed on an SPE confocal microscope equipped with a 63× objective (HCX Plan Apochromat, NA 1.4; Leica) and a charged couple device camera (DFC 360FX; Leica). Confocal and superposed confocal/DIC images were acquired on SPE or SP5 confocal microscopes with a 63× objective (HCX Plan Apochromat, NA 1.4; Leica). Images were acquired with the LAS AF software at 5-s intervals, except for Video 5 (20-s intervals), and assembled for illustration using ImageJ and Photoshop.
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Quorum Spinning Disk Confocal Imaging

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Quorum spinning disk confocal was used to image cells. The microscope is equipped with EMCCD digital camera (Hamamatsu ImagEM). Images were acquired using 63X oil immersion objective (HCX Plan Apochromat with numerical aperture of 1.40–0.7; Leica), and the equipment was driven by Volocity acquisition software (Quorum Technologies, Puslinch, Ontario, Canada) and powered by a Power Mac G5 (Apple).
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Immunofluorescence Imaging of Cultured Cells

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A375-SM cells or HFFs were spread for 120 min at 37 °C, 5% (v/v) CO2 on glass-bottomed dishes (10 mm glass diameter, 35 mm plate diameter; MatTek Co., Ashland, MA, USA) coated with 10 μg ml−1 FN. Where applicable, spread cells were incubated with the CDK1-specific inhibitor RO-3306 (10 μM; Millipore), CGP74514A (5 μM, Millipore), Roscovitone (20 μM, Cell Signaling) or DMSO for 60 min at 37 °C, 8% (v/v) CO2. Cells were fixed in 4% (w/v) paraformaldehyde for 10 min, washed twice with PBS and permeabilized using 0.5% (w/v) Triton-X-100 in PBS for 5 min. Cells were then washed twice with PBS and glass-bottomed dishes were blocked using 0.1 M glycine in PBS (60 min, RT). Cells were incubated with primary antibodies (30 min, RT), and then washed with PBS and incubated for 30 min with the appropriate secondary antibodies and, where applicable, Alexa 594-conjugated Phalloidin (Invitrogen). Finally, glass-bottomed dishes were washed with PBS a further three times before imaging.
Images were acquired on an inverted confocal microscope (TCS SP5 Acousto-Optical Beam Splitter; Leica, Wetzlar, Germany) using a × 63 objective (HCX Plan Apochromat, NA 1.25) and LCS software (Leica). Alternatively, images were acquired on a spinning-disk confocal inverted microscope (Marianas; 3i, Denver, CO, USA) using a × 63 objective (Plan Apochromat, NA 1.4) and SlideBook 5.0 software (3i).
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Microscopic Imaging of Live Samples

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Live animals, WISH samples mounted with Mowiol mounting medium, were photographed using a microscope (SteREODiscovery.V20; Carl Zeiss, Jena, Germany) equipped with a Plan Apochromat ×1.0 objective and a digital microscope camera (AxioCamHRc; Carl Zeiss) automated using the AxioVision Rel.4.8 software (Carl Zeiss). FISH specimens were mounted with fluorescence mounting medium (Dako, Glostrup, Denmark) or Mowiol mounting medium, and the images were captured with a laser-scanning confocal microscope (True Confocal Scanner SP5; Leica; HCX Plan Apochromat confocal scanning ×10/0.4 NA, ×20/0.7 NA, ×40/0.85 NA or ×63/1.40 NA oil immersion objective lens) using the LAS AF software (Leica). Images were processed with the LAS AF Lite software and Photoshop software (Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA) and were quantified using the QWin software (Leica) or the ImageJ software (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA). All ISH experiments were performed, imaged and processed identically (at room temperature, 22 °C) to allow direct comparison between experimental animals and controls.
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Imaging of Spermatogenic Cells and Oocytes

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Images of spermatogenic cells were acquired using a microscope (BX51; Olympus) equipped with epifluorescence and a UPlan-Apochromat 60×/0.90 NA infinity/0.11–0.23 objective lens. Digital images were captured with a charge-coupled device camera (MagnaFire) using MagnaFire 2.0 software (all from Olympus). Images were modified using Photoshop CS6 (Adobe) to minimize background. No gamma correction was applied. Appropriate scales were added to the images.
Immunofluorescence and FISH image acquisition of whole mount and surface spread oocytes was performed at room temperature using Alexa Fluor fluorochromes (Life Technologies) and Vectashield with DAPI (Vector Laboratories) as mounting medium/DNA counterstain. Data analysis was conducted using a DMRE fluorescence microscope (Leica) equipped with an HCX Plan-Apochromat 40×/0.85 NA air objective lens, and with a Plan-Apochromat 63×/1.20 NA water objective lens. Images were captured with a camera (DFC 350F; Leica) using Openlab 3.1.7. software (PerkinElmer), and image processing was performed using Photoshop 2.0 (Adobe) for linear adjustments and cropping of fluorescent images. No gamma adjustments were made.
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Immunostaining and Confocal Microscopy

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Cells were grown on poly-L-lysine-coated coverslips, subjected to endocytosis, and fixed for 30 min with 3% paraformaldehyde. Briefly, immunostaining was performed as follows: Wash with PBS, 15 min permeabilization with washing buffer (0.1% (v/v) Triton X-100 and Tween20 in PBS), wash with PBS followed by 30 min incubation in blocking buffer (washing buffer supplemented with goat serum to a final concentration of 5% (v/v)), incubation with primary and secondary antibodies (1:200 in blocking buffer) for 1 h and 30 min, respectively, at room temperature or 4 °C overnight, a final wash with washing buffer, followed by rinsing in PBS and water prior to mounting with ProLong Gold Antifade Mountant with DAPI (4’,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole, Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR, USA). Cells were analyzed using Leica SP5 AOBS confocal microscope with 63x/1.4 NA and 40x/1.25 NA HCX Plan-Apochromat oil immersion objectives, ~1.2 airy unit pinhole aperture, and various filter combinations. Images were acquired with 405 diode and argon ion lasers. The obtained images were processed using LAS AF lite (Leica, Wetzlar, Germany), Photoshop CS5 imaging software, and Illustrator CS6 (Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA).
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Mitochondrial Staining with Confocal Imaging

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Mitochondria were stained with MitoTracker® Green FM KIT according to the manufacturer's instructions. Images were captured with a laser‐scanning confocal microscope (True Confocal Scanner SP5; Leica; HCX Plan Apochromat confocal scanning 20×/0.7 NA objective lens) by LAS AF software (Leica).
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Live-cell Imaging of Phosphoinositide Signaling

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HUVECs grown in a confluent monolayer on glass coverslips were transfected with GFP-PH/Btk (48 (link)) or YFP-PH/TAPP1 (47 (link)) using Lipofectamine LTX Plus according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Twenty-four hours after transfection, cells were serum-starved for 5 hours, treated with VEGF-A (100 ng/ml), and fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde for 20 min. Single z-plane images were obtained by confocal laser scanning microscopy (TCS-NT SP5, Leica) with 40× HCX Plan-Apochromat NA 1.25 λBL or 100× HCX Plan-Apochromat NA 1.4 CS oil immersion objective lenses, and de-identified samples were analyzed using ImageJ software. Quantification of plasma membrane biosensor recruitment was determined by measuring the average pixel fluorescence intensity within an area of defined size drawn over three distinct areas of the plasma membrane (5 × 10 pixels) or the average of three boxes (10 × 10 pixels) in the cytosol and expressed as ratios of plasma membrane to cytosolic pixel fluorescence intensity (29 (link)).
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Microscopic Visualization of Cell Adhesion

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A375-SM cells or HFFs were spread for 120 min at 37°C, 5% (v/v) CO2 on glass-bottomed dishes (10 mm glass diameter, 35 mm plate diameter; MatTek Co., Ashland, MA, USA) coated with 10 μg/ml FN. Where applicable, spread cells were incubated with the CDK1-specific inhibitor RO-3306 (10 μM; Millipore), CGP74514A (5 μM, Millipore), Roscovitone (20 μM, Cell Signaling) or DMSO for 60 min at 37°C, 8% (v/v) CO2. Cells were fixed in 4% (w/v) paraformaldehyde (PFA) for 10 min, washed twice with PBS and permeabilised using 0.5% (w/v) Triton X-100 in PBS for 5 min. Cells were then washed twice with PBS and glass-bottomed dishes were blocked using 0.1 M glycine in PBS (60 min, RT). Cells were incubated with primary antibodies (30 min, RT), and then washed with PBS and incubated for 30 min with the appropriate secondary antibodies and, where applicable, Alexa 594-conjugated Phalloidin (Invitrogen). Finally, glass-bottomed dishes were washed with PBS a further three times prior to imaging.
Images were acquired on an inverted confocal microscope (TCS SP5 Acousto-Optical Beam Splitter; Leica, Wetzlar, Germany) using a 63x objective (HCX Plan Apochromat, NA 1.25) and LCS software (Leica). Alternatively, images were acquired on a spinning-disk confocal inverted microscope (Marianas; 3i, Denver, CO, USA) using a 63x objective (Plan Apochromat, NA 1.4) and SlideBook 5.0 software (3i).
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