Microfilaments during sea urchin fertilization: Fluorescence detection with rhodaminyl phalloidin

Wiley - Tập 14 Số 4 - Trang 277-291 - 1986
Christi Cline1, Gerald Schatten
1Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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AbstractRhodaminyl‐labeled phalloidin is used to demonstrate the distribution of microfilaments during fertilization and early development in eggs of the sea urchins Arbacia punctulata and Lytechinus variegatus. The surface of unfertilized eggs have numerous punctate fluorescence sites at which rhodaminyl phalloidin binds, indicating the presence of actin oligomers or polymers. During fertilization this punctate pattern of fluorescence begins to change. Within thirty seconds of insemination, the fertilization cone is first detectable with this technique as an erect structure on the surface of the egg. The fertilization cone grows to a maximum size by 8–9 minutes, and is resorbed by 16 minutes after insemination. The surface of the fertilized egg displays numerous fluorescent fibers by 10 minutes after insemination rather than the punctate fluorescence observed in unfertilized eggs, indicative of the burst of microfilament assembly resulting in microvillar elongation. The elongated microfilaments persist through cytokinesis. Staining is also detected throughout the cortices of unfertilized, fertilized, and cleaving eggs. Cytochalasin E (10 μM, 30 min) prevents microfilament elongation and cytokinesis and reduces the cortical staining intensity after fertilization. At cleavage, contractile rings, appearing as narrow equatorial bundles of fibers, have been detected in Lytechinus variegatus as transient structures.

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