期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 483, 期 -, 页码 13-21出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.12.013
关键词
Asymmetric cell division; Actin; Symmetry breaking; Polarity; Parthenogenesis; Microtubule aster
资金
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale [FDT202001010816, ANR-10-INBS-04]
- Fonda-tion ARC [PJA 20151203487, PJA 20191209604]
- ANR [ANR-19-CE02-0012, 62T5-1, 666003]
- CNRS
- CEFIPRA [DEQ20120323737]
- European Union [ANR-10-LABX-0038]
- [ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02]
The polarity of Diploscapter pachys embryo is achieved during meiosis, seemingly based on the location of the meiotic spindle, by a mechanism that may be present but suppressed in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Asymmetric cell division is an essential feature of normal development and certain pathologies. The process and its regulation have been studied extensively in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, particularly how symmetry of the actomyosin cortical cytoskeleton is broken by a sperm-derived signal at fertilization, upstream of polarity establishment. Diploscapter pachys is the closest parthenogenetic relative to C. elegans, and D. pachys one-cell embryos also divide asymmetrically. However how polarity is triggered in the absence of sperm remains un-known. In post-meiotic embryos, we find that the nucleus inhabits principally one embryo hemisphere, the future posterior pole. When forced to one pole by centrifugation, the nucleus returns to its preferred pole, although poles appear identical as concerns cortical ruffling and actin cytoskeleton. The location of the meiotic spindle also correlates with the future posterior pole and slight actin enrichment is observed at that pole in some early em-bryos along with microtubule structures emanating from the meiotic spindle. Polarized location of the nucleus is not observed in pre-meiotic D. pachys oocytes. All together our results are consistent with the idea that polarity of the D. pachys embryo is attained during meiosis, seemingly based on the location of the meiotic spindle, by a mechanism that may be present but suppressed in C. elegans.
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