RESUMEN
Cnidaria are lower multicellular animals with the body consisting of two epithelial layers. An extracellular substance--mesoglea--is situated between epidermal and gastrodermal layers of these animals. Mesoglein is one of the major mesogleal proteins of adult medusa of Scyphozoan jellyfish Aurelia aurita. Search for the known domains in mesoglein amino acid sequence reveals prominent zona pellucida (ZP) domain (which was found at first in the mammal oocyte zona pellucida proteins), so the protein belongs to ZP family of extracellular matrix proteins and it is an early metazoan member of ZP-domain-containing protein family. However, nothing is known about oogenesis related ZP-domain proteins in the lower multicellular animals. Oogenesis in Scyphozoa is described poorly. In this work morphological features of the zone in contact area between the oocyte and the germinal epithelium were investigated in semi-fine sections: To make it more convenient we identified seven stages according to the oocyte size and the structure found in this area was named the plate. It was shown that the components of the plate bound specifically the antibodies against mesoglein. So it seems the plate material contains ZP-domain proteins. Electrophoresis and immunoblot results give evidence that the proteins immunologically related to mesoglein have a higher molecular mass. It might be due to either the posttranslational modifications of the precursors or that they represent other proteins of ZP-domain family in Cnidaria.
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Epitelio/fisiología , Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular/metabolismo , Oocitos/fisiología , Oogénesis , Escifozoos/fisiología , Animales , Anticuerpos , Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular/inmunología , Femenino , Peso Molecular , Oocitos/citología , Estructura Terciaria de Proteína , Escifozoos/citologíaRESUMEN
Body of the scyphoid jellyfish Aurelia aurita consists of 2 epithelia -- epidermis and gastroderm. The layers are separated by a thick layer of extracellular matrix -- mesoglea. A. aurita has a lot of cells in the mesoglea unlike many other Cnidarians. The major protein of the mesoglea with apparent molecular mass of 47 kDa was detected by SDS-PAGE. A partial mRNA of the protein 1421 bp long was cloned and sequenced. The search for homologous nucleotide and protein sequences shows that the mRNA sequence is novel. Deduced amino acid sequence of 416 aa contains zona pellucida (ZP) domain and Delta/Serrate/Lag-2 (DSL) domain. The protein was named mesoglein. According to reverse transcription PCR analysis it is expressed in the mature medusa exclusively in the mesogleal cells. Mesoglein belongs to the lowest phyla among ZP domain-containing proteins. The protein is supposed to be a structural element of the mesoglea extracellular matrix.
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Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular/química , ARN Mensajero/genética , Escifozoos/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Animales , Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular/genética , Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular/metabolismo , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Estructura Terciaria de Proteína , Escifozoos/genética , Análisis de Secuencia de Proteína , Análisis de Secuencia de ARN , Zona Pelúcida/metabolismoRESUMEN
The body of Aurelia aurita, as well as other diploblasts, consists of two epithelial layers: ectodermal and gastral epithelium. These two tissues are separated by mesoglea, or extracellular matrix. In most coelenterates mesoglea is acellular. In A. aurita mesogleal cells are scattered in mesoglea. Differential display PCR was used to compare mRNA pools from ectodermal epithelium, gastral epithelium and mesoglea. 4 novel gene fragments were cloned and sequenced. According to RTPCR results, one of these fragments is differentially expressed in the ectodermal epithelium.