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Mazurkiewicz-Kania M, Simiczyjew B, Jędrzejowska I. Differentiation of follicular epithelium in polytrophic ovaries of Pieris napi (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)-how far to Drosophila model. PROTOPLASMA 2019; 256:1433-1447. [PMID: 31134405 PMCID: PMC6713685 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-019-01391-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Lepidoptera together with its sister group Trichoptera belongs to the superorder Amphiesmenoptera, which is closely related to the Antliophora, comprising Diptera, Siphonaptera, and Mecoptera. In the lepidopteran Pieris napi, a representative of the family Pieridae, the ovaries typical of butterflies are polytrophic and consist of structural ovarian units termed ovarioles. Each ovariole is composed of a terminal filament, germarium, vitellarium, and ovariole stalk. The germarium houses developing germ cell clusters and somatic prefollicular and follicular cells. The significantly elongated vitellarium contains linearly arranged ovarian follicles in successive stages of oogenesis (previtellogenesis, vitellogenesis, and choriogenesis). Each follicle consists of an oocyte and seven nurse cells surrounded by follicular epithelium. During oogenesis, follicular cells diversify into five morphologically and functionally distinct subpopulations: (1) main body follicular cells (mbFC), (2) stretched cells (stFC), (3) posterior terminal cells (pFC), (4) centripetal cells (cpFC), and (5) interfollicular stalk cells (IFS). Centripetal cells are migratorily active and finally form the micropyle. Interfollicular stalk cells derive from mbFC as a result of mbFC intercalation. Differentiation and diversification of follicular cells in Pieris significantly differ from those described in Drosophila in the number of subpopulations and their origin and function during oogenesis.
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- Marta Mazurkiewicz-Kania
- Department of Animal Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335, Wrocław, Poland.
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- Department of Animal Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Animal Developmental Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335, Wrocław, Poland
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Ronnau M, Azevedo DO, Fialho MDCQ, Gonçlaves WG, Zanuncio JC, Serrão JE. Changes in follicular cells architecture during vitellogenin transport in the ovary of social Hymenoptera. PROTOPLASMA 2016; 253:815-820. [PMID: 26077636 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-015-0843-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Vitellogenins are the major yolk proteins, synthesized in the fat body, released into the hemolymph and captured by the developing oocytes, but the mechanisms by which these proteins cross the follicular cell layer are still poorly understood. This study describes the actin distribution in follicular cells during vitellogenin transport to the oocyte in social Hymenoptera represented by bees Apis mellifera and Melipona quadrifasciata, the wasp Mischocyttarus cassununga and the ant Pachycondyla curvinodis. In oocytic chambers of vitellogenic follicles, vitellogenin was found within the follicular cells, perivitelline space and oocyte, indicating a transcellular route from the hemolymph to the perivitelline space. The cortical actin cytoskeleton in follicular cells underwent reorganization during transport of vitellogenin across this epithelium suggesting that in the ovary of social hymenopterans, vitellogenin delivery to oocytes requires a dynamic cytoskeletal rearrangement of actin filaments in the follicular cells.
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- Milton Ronnau
- Department of General Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
- Department of Biology, Federal University of Paraná, Palotina, PR, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
- Federal Insitute of Espírito Santo, Ibatiba, ES, Brazil
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- Department of Entomology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
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Paes-de-Oliveira VT, Roat TC, Berger B, Da Cruz-Landim C. Cytochemistry of fat body trophocytes and ovaries of workers and queens of Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) during vitellogenesis. Microsc Res Tech 2012; 75:1623-31. [PMID: 22833289 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.22107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Accepted: 06/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The fat body (FB) of insects is where yolk proteins are synthesized. Therefore, relationships between the FB and oogenesis were studied in nurse workers, virgins, and physogastric queens of Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides, a stingless bee in which the workers produce and lay eggs while provisioning brood cells. The relationships between FB and oogenesis, as well as the routes of materials from hemolymph to the oocytes, were studied through the cytochemical detection of lipids by osmium imidazole (OI), carbohydrates by ruthenium red (RR) and basic proteins by ammoniacal silver (AS). The results show differences in the presence of the studied materials in FB trophocytes and ovary of the classes of females studied and oogenesis phases. Material that tested positive for the treatments was detected among the classes of individuals studied in both, trophocytes and oocytes, and in the route of those materials from hemolymph to the oocytes. The differences found among the individual classes indicate relationships with the nutrition and adaptation to the parsimonious use of nutrients in the metabolism of reproduction.
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- Vagner Tadeu Paes-de-Oliveira
- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências de Rio Claro, UNESP-Univ. Estadual Paulista, Bela Vista, 13.506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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Tworzydlo W, Kisiel E. A very simple mode of follicular cell diversification in Euborellia fulviceps (Dermaptera, Anisolabididae) involves actively migrating cells. Zoolog Sci 2012; 28:802-8. [PMID: 22035302 DOI: 10.2108/zsj.28.802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The ovaries of Euborellia fulviceps are composed of five elongated ovarioles of meroistic-polytrophic type. The individual ovariole has three discernible regions: the terminal filament, germarium, and vitellarium. The terminal filament is a stalk of flattened, disc-shaped somatic cells. In the germarium, germline cells in subsequent stages of differentiation are located, and the vitellarium comprises numerous ovarian follicles arranged linearly. The individual ovarian follicles within the vitellarium are separated by prominent interfollicular stalks. The follicles are composed by two germline cells only: an oocyte and a single, polyploid nurse cell, which are surrounded by a monolayer of somatic follicular cells (FCs). During subsequent stages of oogenesis, initially uniform follicular epithelium begins to diversify into morphologically and physiologically distinct subpopulations. In E. fulviceps, the FC diversification mode is rather simple and leads to the formation of only three different FC subpopulations: (1) cuboidal FCs covering the oocyte, (2) stretched FCs surrounding the nurse cell and (3) FCs actively migrating between oocyte and a nurse cell. We found that FCs from the latter subpopulation send long and thin filopodium-like and microtubule-rich processes penetrating between the oocyte and nurse cell membranes. This suggests that, in E. fulviceps, cells from at least one FCs subpopulation show the ability to change position within an ovarian follicle by means of active migration.
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- Waclaw Tworzydlo
- Department of Developmental Biology and Morphology of Invertebrates, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Krakow, Poland.
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Medeiros MN, Ramos IB, Oliveira DMP, da Silva RCB, Gomes FM, Medeiros LN, Kurtenbach E, Chiarini LB, Masuda H, de Souza W, Machado EA. Microscopic and molecular characterization of ovarian follicle atresia in Rhodnius prolixus Stahl under immune challenge. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 57:945-953. [PMID: 21540034 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2010] [Revised: 04/11/2011] [Accepted: 04/11/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this work we characterized the degenerative process of ovarian follicles of the bug Rhodnius prolixus challenged with the non-entomopathogenic fungus Aspergillus niger. An injection of A. niger conidia directly into the hemocoel of adult R. prolixus females at the onset of vitellogenesis caused no effect on host lifespan but elicited a net reduction in egg batch size. Direct inspection of ovaries from the mycosed insects revealed that fungal challenge led to atresia of the vitellogenic follicles. Light microscopy and DAPI staining showed follicle shrinkage, ooplasm alteration and disorganization of the monolayer of follicle cells in the atretic follicles. Transmission electron microscopy of thin sections of follicle epithelium also showed nuclei with condensed chromatin, electron dense mitochondria and large autophagic vacuoles. Occurrence of apoptosis of follicle cells in these follicles was visualized by TUNEL labeling. Resorption of the yolk involved an increase in protease activities (aspartyl and cysteinyl proteases) which were associated with precocious acidification of yolk granules and degradation of yolk protein content. The role of follicle atresia in nonspecific host-pathogen associations and the origin of protease activity that led to yolk resorption are discussed.
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- Marcelo N Medeiros
- Programa de Biologia Celular e Parasitologia, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho da UFRJ, Brazil
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Mazzini M, Callaini G, Mencarelli C. A comparative analysis of the evolution of the egg envelopes and the origin of the yolk. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/11250008409439457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Waksmonski SL, Woodruff RI. For uptake of yolk precursors, epithelial cell-oocyte gap junctional communication is required by insects representing six different orders. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 48:667-675. [PMID: 12770077 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(02)00095-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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For uptake of vitellogenin protein into nascent yolk spheres, communication through open gap junction channels between the follicle epithelium and oocyte is required by six different insects representing six different orders. It was recently shown in the hemipteran, Oncopeltus fasciatus, that endocytic uptake of yolk protein resulting in the formation of nascent yolk spheres depended upon an intact epithelium communicating with the oocyte through patent gap junctions. Following treatment with octanol, which down-regulated gap junctions below the level of dye coupling, vitellogenin uptake was terminated. Yet, for another hemipteran, Dysdercus intermedius, it has been shown that yolk spheres can form even when all epithelial cells have been stripped from the oocyte. To determine if the mechanism seen in Oncopeltus is present in other insects, we utilized the same techniques to study nascent yolk sphere production in a dipteran, Drosophila melanogaster, a lepidopteran, Actias luna, a hymenopteran, Xylocopa virginica, a coleopteran, Tenebrio molitor and an orthopteran, Acheta domesticus. In each of these, when gap junctions were down-regulated yolk uptake quickly stopped. That six different insects from six different orders all required a gap junctionally transmitted chemical signal of epithelial cell origin suggests that this mechanism is widespread throughout the insects.
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- Stacy L. Waksmonski
- Department of Biology, West Chester University, PA 19383-2130, West Chester, USA
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Anderson KL, Woodruff RI. A gap junctionally transmitted epithelial cell signal regulates endocytic yolk uptake in Oncopeltus fasciatus. Dev Biol 2001; 239:68-78. [PMID: 11784019 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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For endocytic uptake of vitellogenins, developing oocytes of Oncopeltus require a soluble, diffusible molecular signal from their surrounding epithelial cells, and this signal must be transmitted through open gap junctions. Hormonal stimulation triggering synthesis and processing of vitellogenins into mature insect yolk spheres has been intensely studied, and follicle epithelial cells are known in several insects to contribute to the blood products which are endocytosed along with vitellogenins synthesized in the fat bodies. However, there has been little evidence that direct gap junctional communication is a requirement for endocytic activity by oocytes. In untreated control follicles, both electrical and dye coupling occur, and follicles incubated in vitro in physiological salt solution containing small amounts of blood and fluorescent dye produce fluorescently labeled nascent yolk spheres. Labeled yolk spheres were visible in both sectioned material, and, with (Laser) Confocal Scanning, in living material. Dye coupling was abolished by treatment with either 1 mM octanol, 0.5 mM ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS), or cytoplasmic acidification, with coupling coefficients also being affected as each of these gap junction antagonists down-regulated the connexons. With each of these treatments, after gap junctions were down-regulated, receptor-mediated endocytic uptake of blood-born vitellogenins came to a halt. Furthermore, Oncopeltus follicles with endocytic activity blocked in this manner could be rescued by microinjection of the soluble fraction of lysed epithelial cell cytoplasm, confirming that the process depended upon a molecular signal from the epithelial cells.
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- K L Anderson
- Department of Biology, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19383-2130, USA
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Ribolla PE, Bijovsky AT. Procathepsin and acid phosphatase are stored in Musca domestica yolk spheres. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 47:225-232. [PMID: 11119768 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(00)00114-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Yolk spheres present in mature invertebrate oocytes are composed of yolk proteins and proteolytic enzymes. In the fly Musca domestica, yolk proteins are degraded during embryogenesis by a cathepsin-like proteinase that is stored as a zymogen. An acid phosphatase is also active in the yolk spheres during Musca embryogenesis. In this paper we show that procathepsin and acid phosphatase are initially stored by a different pathway from the one followed by yolk protein precursors. Both enzymes are taken up by the oocytes and transitorily stored into small vesicles (lysosomes) surrounding the early yolk spheres. Fusion of both structures, the early yolk spheres and lysosomes, creates the mature yolk spheres.
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- PE Ribolla
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-900, SP, São Paulo, Brazil
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Wang Y, Telfer WH. Cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein phosphorylation in vitellogenic follicles of Hyalophora cecropia. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2000; 30:29-34. [PMID: 10646968 DOI: 10.1016/s0965-1748(99)00094-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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(1) In homogenates of vitellogenic follicles from Hyalophora cecropia, cyclic nucleotides promoted the transfer of label from [gamma32P]-ATP to at least four polypeptides. PKI (6-20) amide, an inhibitor of PKA (cAMP-dependent protein kinase), prevented all four reactions. Quantitative tests using kemptide as a substrate indicated that 80% of the total follicular PKA activity was localized in the follicle cells; labeling at 45, 32, and 27 kDa was particle-associated and also restricted to the follicle cells, while a 58 kDa substrate was labeled only in homogenates of the oocyte. (2) When intact follicles were incubated in [32P]-phosphate and okadaic acid, a protein phosphatase inhibitor, the 32 kDa substrate again exhibited cAMP-dependent labeling. There was thus a physiological relationship between PKA activation and 32 kDa protein phosphorylation, while exposure of at least two of the other three substrates to appropriate kinases required homogenization. The latter was illustrated by phosphorylation of the 42 kDa small subunit of vitellogenin, which occurred only when homogenization mixed the proteins of the yolk bodies with cytoplasmic kinases. (3) PKA activation is known to promote the termination of vitellogenesis, even in the absence of detectable labeling of the 32 kDa substrate. The possibility remains that phosphorylation at 32 kDa concerns later aspects of postvellogenic development that were not tested by the assay system used here.
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- Y Wang
- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6018, USA
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Perera OP, Shirk PD. cDNA of YP4, a follicular epithelium yolk protein subunit, in the moth, Plodia interpunctella. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 40:157-164. [PMID: 10207993 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6327(1999)40:3<157::aid-arch5>3.0.co;2-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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YP4, a subunit of the follicular epithelium yolk protein in the moth, Plodia interpunctella, is produced in the follicle cells during vitellogenesis and after secretion is taken up into the oocyte and stored in the yolk spheres for utilization during embryogenesis. In order to identify the cDNA clones for YP4, a degenerate PCR primer was designed to six amino acid residues identified in the NH2-terminal sequence of mature YP4. The YP4 degenerate primer plus T7 reverse PCR primer produced a PCR product from a cDNA library for the majority of the YP4 coding sequence. Combined cDNA and 5' RACE sequencing showed the YP4 transcript to be 991 bp in length with a single open reading frame for a predicted polypeptide of 299 amino acids. Northern analysis showed a single YP4 transcript was present in ovarian RNA that was approximately 1 kb in length. The predicted amino acid sequence for YP4 from P. interpunctella was most closely related to the predicted YP4 protein from the moth, Galleria mellonella, and the spherulin 2a protein from the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum.
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- O P Perera
- Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida 32604, USA
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Shirk PD, Perera OP. 5' coding region of the follicular epithelium yolk polypeptide 2 cDNA in the moth, Plodia interpunctella, contains an extended coding region. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 39:98-108. [PMID: 9880901 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6327(1998)39:3<98::aid-arch2>3.0.co;2-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The 5' region of YP2 cDNA, a follicular epithelium yolk protein subunit in the moth, Plodia interpunctella, shows that the polypeptide contains an extended internal coding region. Partial cDNA clones for YP2 were isolated from a pharate adult female ovarian cDNA expression library in Lambda Zap II by screening with antigen selected YP2 antiserum. The 5' sequence of the YP2 transcript was determined by 5' RACE PCR of ovarian mRNA using YP2 sequence-specific nested primers. The combined cDNA and 5' RACE sequencing showed the YP2 transcript to be 1971 bp in length up to the poly(A) tail with a single open reading frame for a predicted polypeptide of 616 amino acids. Northern analysis showed a single YP2 transcript to be present in ovarian RNA that was approximately 2 kb in length. The predicted amino acid sequence for YP2 from P. interpunctella is most closely related to egg specific protein (ESP) from Bombyx mori and the partial YP2 sequence from Galleria mellonella. YP2 from P. interpunctella also is similar to vertebrate lipases and contains a conserved lipid binding region. However, the 5' coding region of YP2 from P. interpunctella contains an in-frame insert of approximately 438 bp that had replaced an approximately 270-bp region as compared with ESP from B. mori and YP2 of G. mellonella. This suggests that the insert occurred by a recombinational event internal to the YP2 structural gene of P. interpunctella.
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- P D Shirk
- Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
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Rajaratnam VS. Isolation, characterization and complete nucleotide sequence of a Galleria mellonella cDNA coding for the follicle cell-specific yolk protein, YP4. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 26:545-555. [PMID: 8969466 DOI: 10.1016/s0965-1748(96)00006-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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An ovariole-specific yolk polypeptide cDNA from Galleria mellonella was isolated from a cDNA library constructed using vitellogenic ovariole poly (A)+ RNA, by differential screening with the ovariole and day-0 male pupal poly (A)+ RNA. The Ov11 cDNA hybridized to a 1.1 kb message from the ovariole but not from male pharate adults, ovariectomized pharate adults or day-5 last instar larvae. Developmental Northern analysis showed that this message is expressed only during vitellogenic stages. In situ hybridization of digoxigenin-dUTP labeled Ov11 cDNA to the day-8 pharate adult ovariole showed that only follicle cells express the Ov11 gene. The 960 bp Ov11 cDNA is nearly full-length, containing a single open reading frame coding for a 286 amino acid polypeptide with a hydrophobic signal sequence and two potential N-glycosylation and tyrosine sulfation sites. The fact that Ov11 cDNA codes for the 37 kDa ovariole-specific yolk protein, YP4, was confirmed by the N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of purified YP4. Genomic Southern analysis suggests that the yp4 gene is a single copy gene and PCR analysis using the 5' and 3' end primers of the cDNA indicates that the yp4 gene is intronless within the coding region.
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- V S Rajaratnam
- Department of Biology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
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Fujikawa K, Kawaguchi Y, Banno Y, Koga K, Doira H. Yolk of a “scanty vitellin” mutant, vit, of Bombyx mori is lacking in vitellin and 30 kDa proteins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02031-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Fleig R. Role of the follicle cells for yolk uptake in ovarian follicles of the honey bee Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera : Apidae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-7322(95)98841-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Zimowska G, Shirk PD, Silhacek DL, Shaaya E. Yolk sphere formation is initiated in oocytes before development of patency in follicles of the moth,Plodia interpunctella. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994; 203:215-226. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00636337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/1993] [Accepted: 07/08/1993] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Van Antwerpen R, Law JH. Immunocytochemical localization of a follicle specific protein of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta. Tissue Cell 1993; 25:885-92. [PMID: 8140582 DOI: 10.1016/0040-8166(93)90037-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A follicle specific protein (FSP-I) from the hawkmoth Manduca sexta, has been localized in developing follicles by immuno-fluorescence and immuno-gold labeling techniques. At the light microscopical level, the protein was demonstrated to be present in both the basolateral and apical parts of follicular epithelial cells, as well as in clearly defined, spherical compartments in the cortex of the developing oocyte. Immuno-gold labeling at the electron microscopical level revealed the localization of FSP-I in endoplasmic compartments of the follicular epithelial cells, in the extracellular matrix of the follicle and in endocytic compartments of the oocyte. Our results indicate that M. sexta FSP-I is synthetized and secreted by the follicular epithelial cells, after which it is taken up by the developing oocyte through endocytic routes.
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- R Van Antwerpen
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Baert JL, Britel M, Sautiere P, Malecha J. Ovohemerythrin, a major 14-kDa yolk protein distinct from vitellogenin in leech. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 209:563-9. [PMID: 1425663 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17321.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A 14-kDa protein was identified as a major component of mature oocytes of the leech Theromyzon tessulatum. This protein was, like vitellin, detected in the content of yolk granules and was purified by gel-permeation and ion-exchange chromatography. The yolk protein corresponded to an iron-binding protein which exists in a monomeric unglycosylated form and had no similarities to vitellin. However, a strong resemblance between this protein and sipunculid hemerythrin, a non-heme iron-binding protein, was observed on the basis of its characteristics including molecular mass, iron content, ultraviolet/visible spectrum, amino acid composition and N-terminal sequence. These similarities with hemerythrin and the accumulation of the protein in the oocyte justify the name ovohemerythrin given to the molecule. A coelomic-fluid protein immunologically related to ovohemerythrin was detected in vitellogenic animals. The protein was purified with the chromatographic procedure used to isolate ovohemerythrin from oocytes and was found to be similar to the oocyte protein. This circulating ovohemerythrin was present in large amounts in the coelomic fluid while gametogenesis is in progress, i.e. after the third and last blood meal of the animal (stage 3), except at the time of oocyte enlargement when its concentration decreases dramatically. However, in contrast to vitellogenin, which is detected specifically in the coelomic fluid of leeches at stage 3, circulating ovohemerythrin is also observed after the first (stage 1) and second (stage 2) blood meal. This observation suggests a more complex function for ovohemerythrin than being merely a yolk nutrient for the embryo.
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- J L Baert
- Unité Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique no. 148, Laboratoire de Phylogénie Moléculaire des Annélides, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Synthesis and secretion of egg-specific protein from follicle cells of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(91)90054-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Kulakosky PC, Telfer WH. Kinetics of yolk precursor uptake in Hyalophora cecropia: Stimulation of microvitellin endocytosis by vitellogenin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(89)90041-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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YAMASHITA OKITSUGU, INDRASITH LESLIES. Metabolic Fates of Yolk Proteins during Embryogenesis in Arthropods. (Arthropods/embryogenesis/yolk proteins/limited proteolysis/protease). Dev Growth Differ 1988. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169x.1988.00337.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Indrasith LS, Sasaki T, Yaginuma T, Yamashita O. The occurrence of a premature form of egg-specific protein in vitellogenic follicles ofBombyx mori. J Comp Physiol B 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00692723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Takahashi SY. Studies on the phosphorylation of ovarian proteins from the silkworm, Bombyx mori. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(87)90154-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chen A, Kim H, Mayer R, Norman J. Vitellogenesis in the stable fly, stomoxys calcitrans. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(87)90261-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Röhrkasten A, Ferenz HJ. Properties of the vitellogenin receptor of isolated locust oocyte membranes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1986. [DOI: 10.1080/01688170.1986.10510236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Zhu J, Indrasith LS, Yamashita O. Characterization of vitellin, egg-specific protein and 30 kDa protein from Bombyx eggs, and their fates during oogenesis and embryogenesis. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(86)90267-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Beenakkers AM, Van der Horst DJ, Van Marrewijk WJ. Insect lipids and lipoproteins, and their role in physiological processes. Prog Lipid Res 1985; 24:19-67. [PMID: 3916237 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7827(85)90007-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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R�hrkasten A, Ferenz HJ. In vitro study of selective endocytosis of vitellogenin by locust oocytes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00848554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Postlethwait JH, Giorgi F. Vitellogenesis in insects. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y. : 1985) 1985; 1:85-126. [PMID: 3917207 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-6814-8_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Shirk PD, Bean D, Millemann AM, Brookes VJ. Identification, synthesis, and characterization of the yolk polypeptides of Plodia interpunctella. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1984; 232:87-98. [PMID: 6502094 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402320112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The mature eggs of Plodia interpunctella were found to contain four major polypeptides. These yolk polypeptides (YPs) were found to have approximate molecular weights of 153,000 daltons (YP1), 69,000 daltons (YP2), 43,000 daltons (YP3), and 33,000 daltons (YP4) as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). In addition, we found YP1 was resolved by a 5% polyacrylamide gel into two separate polypeptides of 153,000 and 147,000 daltons. All of the YPs could be labeled in vivo or in vitro with [35S]-methionine. Yolk peptide 1 and YP3 were synthesized by fat body of pharate adult and adult females and secreted into the hemolymph. Yolk peptide 2 and YP4 were synthesized and secreted into incubation medium by ovaries that contained vitellogenic oocytes, but these polypeptides were not found in the hemolymph. Fat bodies of males synthesized and secreted an immunoprecipitable polypeptide similar to YP3 as well as immunoprecipitable polypeptides larger than 200,000 daltons that had no counterparts in the oocytes. Peptide mapping by protease digestion showed each YP to be cleaved into unique fragments, suggesting that no precursor-product relationship exists between the YPs. Ion exchange chromatography and gel permeation chromatography separated that yolk proteins into two groups with approximate molecular weights of 462,000 and 264,000 daltons. By resolving these peaks on SDS-PAGE, it was found that YP1 and YP3 formed the 462,000-dalton yolk protein and YP2 and YP4 formed the 264,000-dalton yolk protein.
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Yamauchi H, Yoshitake N. Developmental stages of ovarian follicles of the silkworm,Bombyx mori L. J Morphol 1984; 179:21-31. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1051790104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Junquera P. The role of the follicular epithelium in growing eggs of a dipteran insect during late oogenesis and cleavage. J Morphol 1983; 178:303-312. [PMID: 30068055 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1051780307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The gall midge Heteropeza pygmaea can reproduce by means of paedogenesis (i.e., larval parthenogenesis). In that process, follicles are produced that develop while floating in the hemocoele of the mother larva. A chorion is not formed at the end of oogenesis, and the growing embryos remain enveloped by the follicular epithelium. To investigate possible adaptations of the follicular epithelium to this unusual egg development, its ultrastructure has been studied during late oogenesis and cleavage. Earlier investigations had shown that the follicle cells are provided with a specifically arranged microtubular frame, which may be responsible for the anisometric growth of the egg. The present work shows that the follicle cells are always joined by desmosomes and septate junctions. During development, the septate junctions increase their surface and change their orientation to become parallel to the longitudinal egg axis, thus increasing the resistance of the follicle cells to being torn apart by growth tensions. The total surface of the follicular epithelium increases during development. Well-developed nucleoli in the nuclei and numerous ribosomes in the cytoplasm of follicle cells indicate a high level of synthetic activity. This activity may be required to support the increase in the membrane surface and the establishment of the microtubular frame. Lipid droplets, glycogen, and different inclusions in the follicle cells may represent nutrient and energy reserves. Structures indicating a quantitative significant transfer of nutrients from the follicle cells to the egg were not found.
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- Pablo Junquera
- Department of Entomology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Egg-specific protein in the silkworm, Bombyx mori: Purification, properties, localization and titre changes during oogenesis and embryogenesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(83)90066-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Biliński S. Oogenesis in Campodea sp. (Insecta, Diplura): chorion formation and the ultrastructure of follicle cells. Cell Tissue Res 1983; 228:165-70. [PMID: 6831522 DOI: 10.1007/bf00206274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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During advanced vitellogenesis the follicle cells of Campodea sp. are well developed and contain numerous electron-dense secretory vacuoles. In the postvitellogenic phase the contents of these vacuoles are released from follicle cells and give rise to a thin chorion on the oocyte surface. Concurrently, segregation of yolk spheres takes place in the ooplasm: small spheres migrate to the oocyte periphery and come to lie in the so-called peripheral zone of cytoplasm, whereas large spheres remain in the cell centre.
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Chu HM, Norris DM, Rao KDP. Sorbic acid-induced differences in the ultrastructural development of oocytes in the microbially ectosymbiotic female ofXyleborus ferrugineus (fabr.) (coleoptera, scolytidae). J Morphol 1982; 173:313-324. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1051730308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Brennan MD, Weiner AJ, Goralski TJ, Mahowald AP. The follicle cells are a major site of vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 1982; 89:225-36. [PMID: 6172303 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(82)90309-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Glass H, Emmerich H. Properties of two follicle proteins and their possible role for vitellogenesis in the African Locust. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1981; 190:22-26. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00868699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/1979] [Accepted: 10/20/1980] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Immunofluorescent localization of two SDS-soluble proteins in maturing terminal follicles ofLocusta migratoria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1981; 190:27-32. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00868700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/1979] [Accepted: 10/20/1980] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Ullerich FH. Analysis of the predetermining effect of a sex realizer by ovary transplantations in the monogenic flyChrysomya rufifacies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980; 188:37-43. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00848608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/1979] [Accepted: 12/20/1979] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lecanidou R, Tsitilou S, Kafatos F. Isolation of transcriptionally active nuclei from developing follicles of the silkmoth, Antheraea polyphemus, and optimization of ionic conditions for in vitro transcription. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(80)90005-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Rubenstein EC. The role of an epithelial occlusion zone in the termination of vitellogenesis in Hyalophora cecropia ovarian follicles. Dev Biol 1979; 71:115-27. [PMID: 467783 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(79)90086-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Kelly TJ, Telfer WH. The function of the follicular epithelium in vitellogenic Oncopeltus follicles. Tissue Cell 1979; 11:663-72. [PMID: 524343 DOI: 10.1016/0040-8166(79)90023-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Autoradiographic and electrophoretic methods that have detected an endogenously synthesized protein yolk component in Hyalophora cecropia follicles failed to reveal such a protein in Oncopeltus fasciatus. Similarly, neither sulfate nor glucosamine was incorporated into the intercellular matrix of vitellogenic follicles, though both label these regions intensely in Hyalophora. While both insects produce yolk from hemolymph vitellogenin, their follicles thus appear to support the process by very different synthetic means.
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BIEMONT JC. Vitellogenesis inAcanthoscelides obtectus(Coleoptera: Bruchidae). I—Oocyte development and vitellogenin in a European strain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1979. [DOI: 10.1080/01651269.1979.10553318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Telfer WH. Sulfate and glucosamine labelling of the intercellular matrix in vitellogenic follicels of a moth. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1979; 185:347-362. [PMID: 28305236 DOI: 10.1007/bf00848521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/1978] [Accepted: 09/28/1978] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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daltons. Testicular hyaluronidase degraded the high molecular weight fragments, and thus it is probable that they are chondroitin sulfate-like mucopolysaccharides. With the termination of vitellogenesis new matrix is no longer deposited, and the pre-existing material is disassembled. The sulfated matrix may account for the patency of the intercellular diffusion channels essential for blood protein uptake and also for the low level, extracellular binding of blood proteins that characterizes the vitellogenic follicle inHyalophora.
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- William H Telfer
- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Wieschaus E, Marsh JL, Gehring W. fs(1)K10, a germline-dependent female sterile mutation causing abnormal chorion morphology inDrosophila melanogaster. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1978; 184:75-82. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00848670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/1977] [Accepted: 11/25/1977] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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