期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 384, 期 2, 页码 356-374出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.10.002
关键词
Botryllus schlosseri; BS-cadherin; BS-DDX1; BS-Vasa; gamma-H2AX; Germ cells; Niche; PGC; Phospho-Smad1/5/8; RNA helicase; Urochordata
资金
- Israel Academy of Sciences [68/10]
The primordial germ cells (PGCs) in the colonial urochordate Botryllus schlosseri are sequestered in late embryonic stage. PGC-like populations, located at any blastogenic stage in specific niches, inside modules with curtailed lifespan, survive throughout the life of the colony by repeated weekly migration to newly formed buds. This cyclical migration and the lack of specific markers for PGC-like populations are obstacles to the study on PGCs. For that purpose, we isolated the Botryllus DDX1 (BS-DDX1) and characterized it by normal expression patterns and by specific siRNA knockdown experiments. Expression of BS-DDX1 concurrent with BS-Vasa, gamma-H2AX, BS-cadherin and phospho-Smad1/5/8, demarcate PGC cells from soma cells and from more differentiated germ cells lineages, which enabled the detection of additional putative transient niches in zooids. Employing BS-cadherin siRNA knockdown, retinoic acid (RA) administration or beta-estradiol administration affirmed the BS-Vasa(+)BS-DDX1(+)BS-cadherin(+)gamma-H2AX(+)phospho-Smad1/5/8(+) population as the B. schlosseri PGC-like cells. By striving to understand the PGC-like cells trafficking between transient niches along blastogenic cycles, CM-DiI-stained PGC-like enriched populations from late blastogenic stage D zooids were injected into generically matched colonial ramets at blastogenic stages A or C and their fates were observed for 9 days. Based on the accumulated data, we conceived a novel network of several transient and short lived 'germ line niches' that preserve PGCs homeostasis, protecting these cells from the weekly astogenic senescence processes, thus enabling the survival of the PGCs throughout the organism's life. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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