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Dev Growth Differ
1996 Apr 01;382:175-183. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1996.t01-1-00007.x.
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Centrifugal bisection of starfish oocytes.
Yoshikawa SI
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Immature oocytes or mature eggs of starfish were centrifuged in a sucrose density gradient. They were then separated into two fractions of fragments, nucleate light fragments and anucleate heavy fragments. Vital-staining experiments showed that the oocytes were elongated along the animal-vegetal (AV) axis during the centrifugation in a contrast to centrifuged eggs whose centrifugal axis was not related to the AV axis. The light and heavy oocyte fragments were comprised of animal and vegetal halves of oocytes, respectively. When matured and fertilized, most of the light oocyte fragment-derived embryos failed gastrulation and developed into Dauerblastulae. Two-dimensional gel electrophoretic analysis of fragments revealed that three basic proteins were predominantly enriched in the heavy oocyte fragments but scarcely detected in the light oocyte fragments. One of these proteins, App20, was identified as a homologue of cyclophilin (peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase). The present study provides a simple means of separating a population of starfish oocytes into animal and vegetal halves, thereby enabling us to analyze any difference of components between animal and vegetal cytoplasm of the oocytes.
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