Uptake of the yolk protein, lipovitellin, by developing crustacean oocytes |
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Authors: | E M Wolin H Laufer D F Albertini |
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Institution: | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Reed College, The University of Connecticut, and the University of Massachusetts USA |
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Abstract: | A variety of cytochemical techniques were used to demonstrate how crustacean lipovitellin accumulates within the egg. It was found that a protein serologically identical to the lipovitellin of yolk spheres was present in the hemolymph of vitellogenic crustaceans, but was absent from the hemolymph of males and immature females.In the three crustacean species studied (Uca pugilator, Cambarus clarkii, and Libinia emarginata), pinocytosis of fluorescein-conjugated lipovitellin and trypan blue occurred only during those periods when oocytes were accumulating yolk.It may be concluded from the present studies that yolk spheres develop in crustacean eggs primarily through micropinocytotic uptake of lipovitellin from the hemolymph, although other oocyte proteins appear to be made in the oocyte. |
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Keywords: | Reprint requests should be addressed to Dr Laufer at the University of Connecticut |
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