Untersuchungen zur Inkompatibilitt imCulex pipiens-Komplex

Zusammenfassung Bei Kreuzungen zwischenCulex pipiens-Popalationen verschiedener geographischer Herkunft werden drei Kreuzungstypen festgestellt: normale Kreuzbarkeit, reduzierte Kreuzbarkeit und Inkompatibilitt (Nichtkreuzbarkeit). Die drei Kreuzungstypen sind mit Hilfe der Embryonierungsrate, der Schlüpfrate und der entstehenden Nachkommenschaft gegeneinander abgrenzbar. Bei Inkompatibilitt sind 99,9% der Embryonen letal, und etwa 0,1% der Tiere schlüpfen und sind fertile, diploide Weibchen.Die Aktivierung des Eies und der Entwicklungsansto\ erfolgt durch das Spermium. Das Spermium gelangt nicht zur Karyogamie mit dem Pronucleus. Es liegt induzierte, meiotische Parthenogenese vor.Die diploiden, parthenogenetischen Weibchen gehen aus einer Oocyte 2. Ordnung oder aus Teilungsprodukten einer Oocyte 2. Ordnung hervor. Die letalen Embryonen sind haploid. Das Spermium beteiligt sich nicht am Aufbau des Embryos. Nach Aktivierung des Eies wird das Spermium im Eiplasma resorbiert, whrend der haploide Pronucleus einen rein haploiden Embryo aufbaut.Bei einigen Kreuzungen entwickeln sich bis zu 75% der Embryonen bis zum Stadium der histologischen Differenzierung der Organe. Die Embryonen zeigen noch einige Stunden nach dem normalen Schlüpftermin Muskelkontraktionen, vermögen die Eihülle jedoch nicht zu sprengen.Die DNS-Verteilungen von Interphasekernen der letalen Embryonen liegen zwischen den Werten C und 2C für haploide Zellen. ltere Embryonen besitzen in geringem Ma\e höhere DNS-Werte als 2C. Whrend der histologischen Differenzierung der Organe liegen in diploiden Kontrollembryonen und in letalen Embryonen die Ploidiestufen C, 2C, 4C, 8C and 16C vor. Bei inkompatiblen Kreuzungen wird das in das Ei eindringende Spermium cytophotometrisch nachgewiesen. Die Wanderung des Spermiums im Ei wird untersucht.In Normalkreuzungen wird nur ein geringer Grad von Polyspermie festgestellt. Monound Dispermie sind am hufigsten. Es werden die Möglichkeiten diskutiert die zur Blockierung der Karyogamie in inkompatiblen Kreuzungen führen können.

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Investigations on the incompatibility in theCulex pipiens-complex

Summary In crosses between populations of the mosquitoCulex pipiens of different geographical origin three crossing types have been found (1) crosses with normal offspring (2) crosses with reduced offspring and (3) crosses that show almost total incompatibility. In the case of incompatible crosses 99.9% of the embryos are lethal and only about 0.1% of the embryos hatch and develop to fertile diploid females. Based on genetical and cytological data it is argued that induced meiotic parthenogenesis takes place. The sperm does not play any part in the production of the diploid females and the lethal embryos. After the activation of the egg the sperm moves to the center of the egg but it does not succeed in fusing with the pronucleus. As a result the pronucleus starts to develop into a haploid embryo in about 99.9% and only in a few cases the diploidy is restored by a change in the meiotic process in the egg. Up to 75% of the haploid embryos develop to the stage of histological differentiation. The frequency distribution of the DNA in interphase nuclei of these embryos shows a maximum at C and 2 C characteristic for haploid cells. The absence of ploidy classes higher than 2 C in the early embryos is in agreement with the assumption of pure haploidy. After histological differentiation ploidy classes C to 16 C can be found in tissues that show endomitotic growth. The development of the haploid embryos is described. It has been shown through cytophotometric methods that in incompatible crosses entrance of the sperm into the egg takes place. In normal crosses polyspermy is rather rare, monospermy and dispermy are most common. The blocking of the sperm in incompatible crosses is discussed.

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Teil einer Dissertation der Math.-Nat. Fakultt der Universitt Mainz. Herrn Prof. Dr. H. Laven danke ich für die Bereitstellung des Untersuchungsmaterials sowie für die Anregungen bei der Durchführung der Arbeit.     

Relationship between tektins and intermediate filament proteins: an immunological study

Affinity-purified antibodies raised against three flagellar tektins (tektin A, B, and C) from each of two sea urchin species (Lytechinus pictus and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) were used to study the immunological relationship between tektins and intermediate filament proteins. By immunofluorescence microscopy, several antitektins revealed a staining of intermediate filament-like arrays in three vertebrate cell lines tested. Immunoelectron microscopy substantiated the cross reaction of antitektins with intermediate filaments. When the cells were treated with cytochalasin B, the arrangement of the filaments recognized by anti-(Lp)-tektin B was altered; the alteration observed is typical for keratin filaments. By immunoblot, it was found that anti-(Lp)-tektin B cross reacted with two isoforms or different proteins of approximately 54 kD with pIs of 6.1 and 6.2 in human carcinoma epithelia (HeLa) cells and with two isoforms or different proteins of approximately 55 kD with pIs of 6.1 and 6.3 in pig kidney epithelia (LLC-PK1) cells. Furthermore, when antitektin antibodies were affinity purified with the 54 kD HeLa keratin, these keratin-specific antibodies again restained the original tektins on immunoblots. From these observations, it can be concluded that tektins and keratins are to a certain extent immunologically related. To determine the degree of the immunological relationship, tektin filaments and purified intermediate filaments from HeLa cells were cleaved with alpha-chymotrypsin and examined by quantitative immunoblot analysis. On immunoblots of digested tektins from L. pictus, anti-(Lp)-tektin B recognized several cleavage products in the range of 20 kD to 46 kD. However, when immunoblots of digested intermediate filaments from HeLa cells were probed, the cross reaction of anti-(Lp)-tektin B with HeLa keratins was eliminated by more than 98% within 2 min, suggesting that tektins have epitopes in common with the end domains of certain keratins.     

An estradiol-dependent protein from chicken liver binds single-stranded DNA and RNA

We have identified two estradiol-dependent single-stranded DNA binding proteins in the nucleus and cytoplasm of chicken hepatocytes that bind the sequence 5'TCACCTTCGCTATG3' in the first exon of the chicken vitellogenin gene. As judged by chromatography on heparin-Sepharose and by proteolytic clipping bandshift assay, the two proteins are different. Furthermore, they only bind to the oligonucleotide corresponding to the upper strand. Depurination and depyrimidination interference experiments with the cytoplasmic protein show that the bases CCTT-G are involved in the protein-DNA interaction. An RNA corresponding to the upper strand of the gene between nucleotide positions -73 and +53 competes for binding to the single-stranded DNA. UV cross-linking experiments performed with bromouridine-substituted single-stranded RNA reveal that an estradiol-dependent hepatocyte cytoplasmic protein with a Mr of 71,000 binds to the mRNA-like single-stranded RNA.