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Rouxs Arch Dev Biol 1989 Oct 01;1983:179-184. doi: 10.1007/BF02438943.
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Immunocytochemical evidence for the presence of two domains in the plasma membrane of sea urchin blastomeres.

Yazaki I , Uemura I .


Abstract
The blastomeres of sea urchin embryos have two surface regions with different properties. Numerous microvilli are present in the apical surface region, while the baso-lateral surface region, either on adjoining adjacent cells or facing the blastocoel, is smooth. When blastomeres are isolated from embryos and stained with fluorescein-isothiocyanate-labelled anti-(egg surface) antibody (anti-ES) prepared against membranes isolated from fertilized eggs, the apical microvillous region fluoresces while the smooth region does not [Yazaki I (1984) Acta Embryol Morphol Exp 5∶3-22]. In order to study quantitatively the ''bindability'' of the membrane in the two regions to anti-ES, immunoelectron microscopy was used. Blastomeres isolated from embryos ofHemicentrotus pulcherrimus at the eight-cell stage were treated with rabbit anti-ES serum or pre-immune serum and then with ferritin-conjugated goat anti-(rabbit IgG) for 10 min at 0°C, mainly before fixation. About 10 times (maximally 45 times) more ferritin particles were counted per contour length in the microvillous surface region than in the smooth surface region.These results suggest that the membrane of the blastomeres of sea urchin embryos is a mosaic of two different membrane territories: one represented by the microvillous surface originating from the unfertilized egg, which binds anti-ES, the other by the smooth surface newly organized after the first cleavage, which does not react with anti-ES. The mechanism of segregation of the membrane into these two regions is discussed.

PubMed ID: 28305720
Article link: Rouxs Arch Dev Biol


Genes referenced: LOC100887844 LOC115919910

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