Transient appearance of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Otx in micromere nuclei: cytoplasmic retention of SpOtx possibly mediated through an alpha-actinin interaction

Developmental Genetics
C K ChuangW H Klein

Abstract

At the 16-cell stage, the sea urchin embryo is partitioned along the animal-vegetal axis into eight mesomeres, four macromeres, and four micromeres. The micromeres, unlike the other blastomeres, are autonomously specified to produce skeletogenic mesenchymal cells and are also required to induce the vegetal-plate territory. A long-held belief is that micromeres inherit localized maternal determinants that endow them with their cell autonomous behavior and inducing capabilities. Here, we present evidence that an orthodenticle-related protein, SpOtx appears transiently in nuclei of micromeres but not in nuclei of mesomeres and macromeres. At later stages of development, SpOtx was translocated into nuclei of all cells. To address the possibility that SpOtx was retained in the cytoplasm at early developmental stages, we searched for cytoplasmic proteins that interact with SpOtx. A proline-rich region of SpOtx resembling an SH3-binding domain was used to screen an embryo cDNA expression library, and a cDNA clone was isolated and shown to be alpha-actinin. A yeast two-hybrid analysis showed a specific interaction between the proline-rich region of SpOtx and a putative SH3 domain of the sea urchin alpha-actinin. Because micromeres lack...Continue Reading

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