2 HISTOSPECIFIC ENZYME EXPRESSIONS IN THE SAME CLEAVAGE-ARRESTED ONE-CELLED ASCIDIAN EMBRYOS
2 HISTOSPECIFIC ENZYME EXPRESSIONS IN THE SAME CLEAVAGE-ARRESTED ONE-CELLED ASCIDIAN EMBRYOS
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DOI:
10.1002/jez.1402500208
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发表时间:
1989-05-01
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通讯作者:
MEEDEL, TH
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作者:
WHITTAKER, JR;MEEDEL, TH
Fertilized eggs of the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, were prevented from undergoing cytokinesis but not nuclear division by treatment with cytochalasin B. After appropriate times, such cleavage-arrested multinucleate zygotes developed acetylcholinesterase of larval tail muscle and an alkaline phosphatase ordinarily localized in the larval endoderm tissues. Separate histochemical reactions on one of a pair of samples taken from the eggs of single animals provided examples (6/34) in which the numbers of cytochalasin-treated embryos displaying the respective reaction product overlapped sufficiently (15-29%) to indicate that some of the zygotes had developed both enzymes in the same uncleaved single cell. With an acutal dual-staining technique that can be applied to single cleavage-arrested zygotes, 62% of those developing a strong alkaline phosphatase reaction also had a strong acetylcholinesterase reaction. In other experiments, quantitative measurements of enzyme activity in homogenates of 114 single cleavage-arrested zygotes confirm directly that 18% of the zygotes produce both enzymes. There was no obligatory mutual exclusion of the potential for simultaneous expression of two tissue-specific characteristics that would ordinarily be segregated into differnet lineages during early cleavages. The cytoplasmic determinants believed responsbile for these histotypic expressions can apparently function independently in the same cell.