Development, Vol 117, Issue 2 483-492, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Ontogeny of hyaluronan secretion during early mouse development

JJ Brown and VE Papaioannou
Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.

The ontogeny of hyaluronan (HA) secretion during early mouse embryogenesis has been investigated using a biotin-labelled HA-binding complex from cartilage proteoglycan. HA is first secreted by visceral endoderm cells of the early egg cylinder on day 5.5 post coitum (p.c.), predominantly into the expanding yolk cavity. On day 6.5 p.c., HA is present in both the yolk and proamniotic cavities, but pericellular staining is restricted to the visceral endoderm and a population of embryonic ectoderm cells at the antimesometrial end of the proamniotic cavity. By the primitive streak stage, HA is secreted into the ectoplacental, exocoelomic, amniotic and yolk cavities, whilst the only cells exhibiting pericellular staining are those of the embryonic and extraembryonic mesoderm, including the allantois. Comparisons of HA-staining patterns of cultured whole blastocysts, microdissected trophectoderm fragments and immunosurgically isolated inner cell masses, revealed no trophoblast-associated HA secretion during outgrowth in vitro but significant synthetic activity by the endodermal derivatives of differentiating inner cell masses. To identify the cell lineages responsible for secretion of HA into the embryonic cavities and to investigate the origin of the HA observed around migrating mesoderm cells, day 7.5 p.c. primitive streak stage conceptuses were dissected into their various embryonic and extraembryonic cell lineages. HA secretion was observed after short-term suspension culture of mesoderm, embryonic ectoderm and embryonic endoderm, but was undetectable in fragments of ectoplacental cone, parietal yolk sac (primary giant trophoblast and parietal endoderm), extraembryonic ectoderm or extraembryonic endoderm. The level of synthesis by the HA-positive tissues was markedly enhanced by culture in medium containing serum, compared with that obtained following culture in medium supplemented with a defined serum substitute containing insulin, transferrin, selenous acid and linoleic acid. This suggests that additional growth factors, present in serum but absent from the serum substitute, are required for optimal HA synthesis by the HA-secreting tissues in vitro, and probably also in vivo. The implications of these events for implantation and the development of peri- and early post-implantation mouse embryos are discussed, and a new role for HA in the initial formation and expansion of the embryonic cavities is proposed.
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