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Development, Vol 115, Issue 4 1175-1182, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Spatial and developmental changes in the respiratory activity of mitochondria in early Drosophila embryos

T Akiyama and M Okada
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Mitochondria of early Drosophila embryos were observed with a transmission electron microscope and a fluorescent microscope after vital staining with rhodamine 123, which accumulates only in active mitochondria. Rhodamine 123 accumulated particularly in the posterior pole region in early cleavage embryos, whereas the spatial distribution of mitochondria in an embryo was uniform throughout cleavage stages. In late cleavage stages, the dye showed very weak and uniform accumulation in all regions of periplasm. Polar plasm, sequestered in pole cells, restored the ability to accumulate the dye. Therefore, it is concluded that the respiratory activity of mitochondria is higher in the polar plasm than in the other regions of periplasm in early embryos, and this changes during development. The temporal changes in rhodamine 123-staining of polar plasm were not affected by u.v. irradiation at the posterior of early cleavage embryos at a sufficient dosage to prevent pole cell formation. This suggests that the inhibition of pole cell formation by u.v. irradiation is not due to the inactivation of the respiratory activities of mitochondria. In addition, we found that the anterior of Bicaudal-D mutant embryos at cleavage stage was stained with rhodamine 123 with the same intensity as the posterior of wild-type embryos. No pole cells form in the anterior of Bic-D embryos, where no restoration of mitochondrial activity occurs in the blastoderm stage. The posterior group mutations that we tested (staufen, oskar, tudor, nanos) and the terminal mutation (torso) did not alter staining pattern of the posterior with rhodamine 123.


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