The organization and animal-vegetal asymmetry of cytokeratin filaments in stage VI Xenopus oocytes is dependent upon F-actin and microtubules

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作者
Gard, DL
Cha, BJ
King, E
机构
[1] Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
CONFOCAL IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; LAEVIS OOCYTES; MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODIES; MESSENGER-RNAS; CYTOCHALASIN-B; CORTEX; PROTEIN; MATURATION; OOGENESIS;
D O I
10.1006/dbio.1997.8508
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Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Confocal immunofluorescence microscopy with anti-cytokeratin antibodies revealed a continuous and polarized network of cytokeratin (CK) filaments in the cortex of stage VI Xenopus oocytes. In the animal cortex, CK filaments formed a dense meshwork that both was thicker and exhibited a finer mesh than the network of CK filaments previously observed in the vegetal cortex (Klymkowsky et al., 1987). CK filaments first appeared in association with germinal vesicle (GV) and mitochondrial mass (MM) of oocytes in early mid stage I, indicating that CK filaments are the last of the three cytoskeletal networks to be assembled. By late stage I, CK filaments formed complex networks surrounding the GV, surrounding and penetrating the MM, and linking these networks to a meshwork of CK filaments in the oocyte cortex. During stage m-early IV, CK filaments formed a highly interconnected, apparently unpolarized, radial array linking the perinuclear and cortical CK filament networks. Polarization of the CK filament network was observed during mid stage IV-stage V, as first the animal, then the vegetal CK filament networks adopted the organization characteristic of stage VI oocytes. Treatment of stage VI oocytes with cytochalasin B disrupted the organization of both cortical and cytoplasmic CK filaments, releasing CK filaments from the oocyte cortex and inducing formation of numerous cytoplasmic CK filament aggregates. CB also disrupted the organization of cytoplasmic microtubules (MTs) in stage VI oocytes. Disassembly of oocyte MTs with nocodazole resulted in loss of the characteristic A-V polarity of the cortical CK filament network. In contrast, disruption of cytoplasmic CK filaments by microinjection of anti-CK antibodies had no apparent effect on cytoplasmic or MT organization. We propose a model in which the organization and polarization of the cortical network of CR filaments in stage VI Xenopus oocytes are dependent upon a hierarchy of interactions with actin filaments and microtubules. (C) 1997 Academic Press.
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