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Development, Vol 119, Issue 3 909-919, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
U Strahle and S Jesuthasan
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Department of Zoology, Oxford, UK.
Early morphogenesis of the teleost embryo is characterized by three orchestrated cell movements. Epiboly leads to spreading of the blastoderm over an uncleaved yolk cell while involution around the blastoderm margin and convergence movements towards the dorsal side generate the mes-endodermal inner cell sheet and the axis rudiment, respectively. Irradiation of zebrafish zygotes with ultraviolet light selectively impairs epiboly resulting in embryos with open blastopores but well-formed anterior axes. Gastrulation movements are only marginally affected by ultraviolet irradiation. Involution of marginal cells in epiboly-retarded embryos takes place prior to 50% epiboly and thus appears independent of epiboly. Expression of dorsal and anterior marker genes is unaffected by ultraviolet irradiation. The ultraviolet light effect is not restricted to the zygote stage as irradiation of later embryonic stages also impairs epiboly. The ultraviolet-sensitive targets may thus be maternally encoded components of the machinery driving epiboly. These targets appear to be microtubules: firstly, irradiated embryos show disorganized and less microtubules in the cytoplasmic layer of the yolk sphere; secondly, the ultraviolet light effect can be mimicked by the microtubule-depolymerizing agent nocodazole. We suggest that epiboly is driven, at least partially, by motors that use microtubules radiating from the yolk syncytial layer into the yolk cytoplasmic layer. Together with an observed constrictive behaviour of the blastoderm margin, we propose a two-force model of epiboly: epiboly is initiated and driven by a pulling force dependent on microtubules in the yolk cytoplasmic layer; contraction at the margin operates in addition to aid closure of the blastopore.
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