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CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH
卷 330, 期 2, 页码 247-256出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-007-0472-9
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tight junction; electron microscopy; membrane vesicle; cingulin; Xenopus laevis (Anura)
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How tight junctions (TJ) form during early amphibian embryogenesis is still an open question. We used time-lapse video microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), TEM and freeze-fracture to gain new insight into TJ biogenesis in early clevages of Xenopus laevis. Video analysis suggests three phases in junction formation between blastomeres. A first waiting phase, where new unpigmented lateral membranes are generated. A second mixing phase, where the unpigmented lateral membrane is separated from the pigmented apical membrane by an area showing a limited degree of intermingling of cortical pigment. And a third sealing phase, characterized by the formation of cingulin-containing boundaries between membrane domains, and their rapid directional adhesion in a zipper-like fashion. By SEM, we characterized these boundaries (junctional crests, JC) as arrays of villiform protrusions at the border between old and new membranes. In the 2-cell embryo, JC are deeply located, and thus not visible at the surface, but they become increasingly more superficial as cleavages progress. After adjacent blastomeres have adhered to each other, fractured JC display linear arrays of junctional vesicles (JV) of 1-3 mu m diameter. TEM analysis shows that JV are symmetrically located near the apposed membranes of adjacent blastomeres, and that the membranes near the JV display focal sites of intimate contact, typical of TJ. Freeze-fracture analysis confirms that intramembrane fibrils, typical of TJ, are present at adhesion sites. We conclude that TJ are formed following the sealing of JC, through the recruitment, sorting and assembly of membrane and cytoplasmic proteins at or near JV.
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