Abstract:
:Fertilized eggs of the leech Helobdella triserialis undergo a cytoplasmic reorganization which generates domains of nonyolky cytoplasm, called teloplasm, at the animal and vegetal poles. The segregation of teloplasm to one cell of the eight-cell embryo is responsible for a unique developmental fate of that cell, i.e., to give rise to segmental ectoderm and mesoderm. We have studied the cytoplasmic movements that generate teloplasm using time-lapse video microscopy; the formation and migration of rings of nonyolky cytoplasm were visualized using transmitted light, while the movements of mitochondria into these rings were monitored with epifluorescence after labeling embryos with rhodamine 123, a fluorescent mitochondrial dye. To examine the likelihood that cytoskeletal elements play a role in the mechanism of teloplasm formation in Helobdella, we examined the distribution of microtubules and microfilaments during the first cell cycle by indirect immunofluorescence and rhodamine-phalloidin labeling, respectively. The cortex of the early embryo contained a network of microtubules many of which were oriented parallel to the cell surface. As teloplasm formation ensued, microtubule networks became concentrated in the animal and the vegetal cortex relative to the equatorial cortex. More extensive microtubule arrays were found within the rings of teloplasm. Actin filaments appeared in the form of narrow rings in the cortex, but these varied apparently randomly from embryo to embryo in terms of number, size, and position. The role of microtubules and microfilaments in teloplasm formation was tested using depolymerizing agents. Teloplasm formation was blocked by microtubule inhibitors, but not by microfilament inhibitors. These results differ significantly from those obtained in embryos of the oligochaete Tubifex hattai, suggesting that the presumably homologous cytoplasmic reorganizations seen in these two annelids have different cytoskeletal dependencies.
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Dev Bioljournal_title
Developmental biologyauthors
Astrow SH,Holton B,Weisblat DAdoi
10.1016/0012-1606(89)90181-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-10-01 00:00:00pages
306-19issue
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0012-1606issn
1095-564Xpii
0012-1606(89)90181-4journal_volume
135pub_type
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