FORMATION OF CYTOSKELETAL ELEMENTS DURING MOUSE EMBRYOGENESIS .2. EPITHELIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND INTERMEDIATE-SIZED FILAMENTS IN EARLY POSTIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS
FORMATION OF CYTOSKELETAL ELEMENTS DURING MOUSE EMBRYOGENESIS .2. EPITHELIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND INTERMEDIATE-SIZED FILAMENTS IN EARLY POSTIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-0436.1981.tb01177.x
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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2.9
通讯作者:
ILLMENSEE, K
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作者:
JACKSON, BW;GRUND, C;ILLMENSEE, K
Organization of cytoskeletal elements in early postimplantation emryos up to day 8 of gestation was examined employing EM, immunofluorescence microscopy and 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis of cytoskeletal proteins labeled by incorporation of 35S-methionine. The characteristic epithelia formed by the embryonic ectoderm and proximal (visceral) endoderm present well-developed junctional complexes and various differentiated membrane structures. Several apical differentiations of the proximal endodermal cells, such as brush border-like microvilli, the endocytotic labyrinthum and the supranuclear vacuoles, resemble the organization of epithelial cells of the ileum of neonatal mammals. Both embryonic epithelia show typical desmosomes and attached intermediate-sized filaments of the cytokeratin type. Other types of intermediate-sized filaments, such as vimentin and desmin filaments, have not been detected in any of the cells of embryos of days 6 and 7, but filaments of the vimentin type can be seen, by immunofluorescence microscopy, late in day 8 in certain cells located in the forming mesoderm. Gel electrophoresis also revealed that the major cytoskeletal proteins synthesized during days 6-8 in extraembryonic and embryonic tissue are similar to those characteristic of preimplantation blastocysts and include a major polypeptide corresponding to cytokeratin A described in some internal organs of adult rodents. By the same techniques, synthesis of another cytoskeletal protein, vimentin, was first found late in day 8. Early postimplantation embryonic development, up to mesoderm formation, is characterized by the exclusive presence, in embryonic ectoderm and proximal endoderm, of differentiated epithelial cells containing desmosome-cytokeratin filament complexes; other types of intermediate-sized filaments are not yet expressed.