Test 3 Flashcards
As a zygote, the organism:
- Consists of one cell of only one type
- Consists of unrealized genomic potential
- Operates using stored materials
- Has “relationships” with no other cells
- Is relatively homogeneus
True or false, the zygote is polarized to some degree
True
What does early development involve
- Development of new “raw materials” for building embryo
- Establishing new relationships between numerous cells
- Further polarizing the organism
Steps of early development
- Cleavage
- Establishment of cell fate
- Establishment of body axes
- Gastrulation
Cleavage
- Cell cycle control
- Rapid cell divisions, division of fertilized egg into many cells
Establishment of cell fate
Specification
Establishment of body axes
(anterior posterior, dorsal ventral, left right)
Gastrulation
Cells undergo displacement, cells move to different parts of the embryo, cells aquire new neighbors
How are cell fates specified during cleavage
Cell to cell interactions and asymmetric distribution of morphogenic determinants
What initially controls cleavage
Factors stored in the egg
Factors stored in the egg
Stored proteins, mRNAs
Mitosis promoting factor
Stimulates the cell cycle (initiates cell division during mitosis and meiosis)
Where does MPF come from
Mother
What stops division
Absence of MPF
Cyclin B
Controls cdc2 activity
cdc2
Cyclin-dependent kinase
CDK
Phosphorylates histones
What happens when cyclin B degrades
Cell division stops
What controls the cyclin B presence and degradation
Egg cytoplasmic proteins
What happens when the maternal stores are used up
Embryonic control of the cell cycle
Mid Blastula Transition
Must produce its own proteins
Post MBT
- Cell cycle adds two new G phases
- New mRNA transcription
- Cell division becomes asynchronous
How does the cell cycle of blastomeres compare with that of somatic cells
Cycle is like somatic cells after MBT
Karyokinesis
Mitotic division of cells nucleus
Cytokinesis
Division of cytoplasm plus organelles
Mechanical agent of karyokinesis
Mitotic spindle
Mechanical agent of cytokinesis
Contractile ring
Major protein composition of karyokinesis
Tubulin microtubules
Major protein composition of cytokinesis
Actin microfilaments
Location of karyokinesis
Central cytoplasm
Location of cytokinesis
Cortical cytoplasm
Positioning of mitotic spindle and contractile ring relative to eachother
Perpendicular
What affects how cleavage occurs
Position of centrioles and yolk
Types of cleavage
- Isolecithal
- Mesolecithal
- Telolecitithal
- Centrolethical
Isolecithal
Little yolk, division throughout
Mesolecithal
Medium yolk, more division on top
Telolecithal
Large yolk, almost all division on top
Centrolethical
Division in random spots
First cleavage
Meridonial
Second cleavage
Meridonial
Third cleavage
Equitorial
Fourth cleavage
Unequal cleavage between animal and vegital hemispheres
Micromeres
Smallest cells
Macromeres
Biggest cells
Mesomeres
Medium cells
How do the animal and vegetal halves differ
Cells on the bottom have different morphogens than on top
7th plus division
At 128 cells, divisions become less regular. Forms blastula
How many cells thick is the blastula
One (hollow inside)
What do the cells of the blastula adhere to
- Hyaline layer (outside)
- Basal membrane (inside)
- Neighboring cells
What develops on the blastula
Cilia
What is initiated at the animal pole of the blastula
Hatching (hatches out of fertilization envelope)
What changes the osmotic pressure of the blastula
Sodium influx
What fills the cavity of the blastula
Proteinaceous fluid fills cavity
What expands the blastocoel
Osmotic pressure
Mechanisms for establishing asymmetry (in regards to splitting cytoplasmic determinants)
- Patterning molecules bound to egg cytoplasm
- Molecules actively transported along the cytoskeleton (made of microtubules in secretory vesciles)
- Molecules become associated with one centrosome, and then follow that centrosome into one of the two mitotic sister cells
What happens when asymmetry is established
One cell can specify another and participate in reciprocal inductions
Notochord
Induces spinal cord formation
Where is the animal pole located
Top
Mesenchyme
Loosely packed, unconnected, mesoderm, neural crest origin
Coelom
Internal body wall, mesoderm origin
What type of specification do micromeres undergo
Autonomous
60 cell stage
Specified but not committed. Blastomeres mostly undergo conditional specification
What cells trigger early induction events
Micromeres
What do micromeres have enough information to do
Induce recognizable larvae and secondary axis
____ plays a role in micromere specification
B-catenin
What activates B-catenin
Wnt signal transduction pathway
What cell fates does B-cateni accumulate in
Endoderm and mesoderm
What do veg2 cells with B-catenin become
Endomesoderm
______ causes accumulation of B-catenin in every cell
LiCl, transforms presumative ectoderm into endoderm
What will animal cells become if they have B-catenin
Endoderm
What micromere protein activates the notch pathway in adjacent veg2 cells
Delta
What does notch pathway activation result in
Secondary mesanchyme
What is Wnt8 made of
Micromeres and endoderm cells
What signal are endomesoderm cells not recieving
Delta
What type of signal does Wnt8 act as
Autocrine signal
What does Wnt8 boost specification in
Veg2 endoderm and micromeres
Invagination
Infolding region of the cells
Ingression
Migration of individual cells from the interior surface layer into the interior of the embryo (cells become mesencymal and migrate independently)
Involution
In turning or inward movement of an expanding outer layer spreads over the internal surface of the external cell layer
Delamination
Splitting one cellular sheet into two parallel sheets
Epiboly
Epithelial sheets spread and enclose deeper layers of the embryo
Intercalation
Two rows become one
How does ingression work
Cells lose cadherin and migrate up the blastocoel to a spot
What gradients move cells in ingression
VEGF and FGF (growth factors)
What does invagination of the vegetal plate form
Archenteron (primative digestive tract)
How does the forgut move to the top
Invagination, involutes inwards
What appears to be responsible for the initial invagination that occurs during gastrulation
Osmotic gradient
How are cells freed from the hyalin layer to be able to move upward
Changing osmotic gradient
What do cells do during formation of the archenteron
Cells intercalate and move forward at the same time (results: thin tube)
When is the anterior posterior axis formed
Very early on with the animal vegetal axis
What does the vegetal region have that is necessary for posterior development
Maternal components
When is the dorsal ventral axis established
After fertilizatio
Another name for the dorsal ventral axis
Oral-aboral
Where is the dorsal ventral axis
Approx. 45 degrees clockwise from the first cleavage plane
What promotes oral fates
Nodal
What promotes aboral fates
BMP2/4
When is the left right axis established
After oral-aboral
The left right axis has ____ expression of the nodal gene
Asymmetric
What sets up the axis in amphibians
The organizer
What is the organizer analogous to in sea urchins
Mircomeres
Inductions of the organizer
- Dorsal ventral axis
- Mesoderm
_Ectoderm
Where does fertilization occur
Anywhere on the animal pole
Cortical rotation
Contents in egg shift
Where are cytoplasmic determinants shifted to
Gray crescent
Where is the gray crescent located
Directly diagonal to the site of sperm entry
How many degrees does the egg rotate
30
What does the first cleavage plane cut in half
Gray crescent
Where is the dorsal located
Opposite sperm entry
Where does gastrulation begin
Gray crescent
What does cortical rotation relocate
Maternal factors
What is the dorsal most and vegetal most region
Nieukoop Center `
Yolk classification of amphibians
Mesolecithal
What pole is the yolk in for amphibians
Vegetal pole
Where do more cells develop in the amphibian embryo
Animal pole
What type of cleavage occurs in amphibians
Displaced radial
Holoblastic
Complete cleavage
Meroblastic
Incomplete cleavage
Is amphibian cleavage holoblastic or meroblastic
Holoblastic
Major functions of blastocoel
- Permits cell migration during gastrulation
- Prevents cells beneath it from interacting prematurely with cells above it (cells on top are different from bottom cells)
What type of movement forms the archenteron
Invagination
Beginning of frog gastrulation
Formation of dorsal lip
Vegetal rotation
Invagination of bottle cells
Involution of marginal zone cells
Dorsal blastophere lip
Site where gastrulation begins (cells stream through the opening)
What happens to the blastocoel during gastrulation
Will eventually go away and be replaced
What does gastrulation form
3 germ layers
Where is archenteron located
Blastopore
What is the yolk plug
Spot not yet covered
What are axes specified by
Events triggered at fertilization and realized during gastrulation
What is the mesoderm determined by
Transcription factors and paracrine factors from the vegetal region