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Development, Vol 102, Issue 1 193-210, Copyright © 1988 by Company of Biologists
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SJ Thorpe, R Bellairs and T Feizi
Applied Immunochemistry Research Group, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, UK.
This report describes a striking temporal and spatial patterning of specific carbohydrate sequences in the developing chick embryo. By using oligosaccharide sequence-specific monoclonal antibodies as immunohistochemical reagents in conjunction with neuraminidase, it was possible to visualize the occurrence, as well as the changes in distribution, of oligosaccharides of the poly-N-acetyllactosamine series. These were (a) long-chain unbranched sequences reactive with anti-i Den, (b) long-chain branched sequences reactive with anti-I Step and (c) short-chain branched sequences reactive with anti-I Ma and (d) their sialylated forms. The salient observations with serial sections of embryos from the unincubated to the 17th stage were as follows. (1) A pronounced anteroposterior patterning appeared during neuroectodermal development, such that the long-chain unbranched and long-chain branched sequences, which were abundant on the ectoderm of the earlier stages, were replaced by short-chain branched sialo-oligosaccharides in the developing brain and anterior neural tube. (2) A striking anteroposterior and mediolateral patterning developed in the subectodermal extracellular spaces. The long-chain linear and short-chain non-sialylated sequences demarcated regions favourable for migration of the lateral plate mesoderm. (3) A distinction was made between the dorsal and ventral routes of the trunk neural crest in that the extracellular matrix of the dorsal route only was associated with long-chain linear and short-chain sialylated branched sequences. (4) A circumscribed perinotochordal distribution of the short-chain sialylated branched sequences was observed in the region of the future centra of the vertebrae. (5) An abundance of long-chain linear and long-chain sialylated branched structures was detected in primordial germ cells which permitted their identification during migration. These observations suggest that oligosaccharides of the poly-N-acetyllactosamine series may have roles as short-range, region-specific information factors during morphogenetic events that take place in the developing embryo, and they open the way to the search for recognition proteins (e.g. endogenous lectins) specific for each of these oligosaccharide structures.
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