Distribution of F-actin during cleavage of the Drosophila syncytial blastoderm

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Distribution of F-actin during cleavage of the Drosophila syncytial blastoderm

RM Warn, R Magrath and S Webb

The process of cleavage during the syncytial blastoderm stage of the Drosophila embryo was studied in fixed whole-mounts using a triple- staining technique. Plasmalemma was stained with Concanavalin A conjugated to tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate, the underlying cortical F-actin with a fluorescein derivative of phalloidin, and nuclei with 4',-6 diamidine-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride. The surface caps, which overlie the superficial nuclei at this stage, were found to be rich in F-actin as compared with the rest of the cortex. After the caps formed, they extended over the surface and flattened. Whilst this was occurring the F-actin network within the caps became more diffuse. By the end of the expansion process F-actin had become concentrated at both poles of the caps. The caps then split in two. The cleavage was not accompanied by the formation of any apparent contractile ring of microfilaments across the cap, rather the break region was depleted in F-actin. The cortical actin associated with each half of the old cap then became reorganized around a nucleus to form a new daughter cap, and the cycle began again.
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