MG160, A MEMBRANE-PROTEIN OF THE GOLGI-APPARATUS WHICH IS HOMOLOGOUS TO A FIBROBLAST GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR AND TO A LIGAND FOR E-SELECTIN,IS FOUND ONLY IN THE GOLGI-APPARATUS AND APPEARS EARLY IN CHICKEN-EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT
A. Stieber et al., MG160, A MEMBRANE-PROTEIN OF THE GOLGI-APPARATUS WHICH IS HOMOLOGOUS TO A FIBROBLAST GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR AND TO A LIGAND FOR E-SELECTIN,IS FOUND ONLY IN THE GOLGI-APPARATUS AND APPEARS EARLY IN CHICKEN-EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT, Experimental cell research, 219(2), 1995, pp. 562-570
While over 20 intrinsic proteins of the Golgi apparatus have been iden
tified and sequenced, there is no information on their developmental h
istory, i.e., whether all Golgi proteins are expressed simultaneously
or whether there is a hierarchical or stage-specific order of their ex
pression during embryonic development. In this study we have examined
the emergence and distribution of MG160 during the development of chic
ken embryos. MG160 is a conserved membrane sialoglycoprotein of the Go
lgi apparatus of most cells displaying over 90% amino acid sequence id
entities with two apparently unrelated molecules, namely CFR, a chicke
n fibroblast growth factor receptor, and ESL-1, a ligand for E-selecti
n (Gonatas et al., J. Biol. Chem. 1989, 264, 646-653; Burrus and Olwin
, J. Biol. Chem. 1989, 264, 18647-18653; Burrus et al., Mol. Cell Biol
. 1992, 12, 5600-5609; Gonatas et al., J. Cell Sci. 108, 457-467; Stee
gmaier et al., Nature 1995, 373, 615-620). This study was carried out
by in situ hybridization, using a 56-mer antisense probe for the chick
en homologue of MG160 which differs only by four bases from the corres
ponding segment of the rat cDNA and by immunocytochemistry and Western
blotting using a polyclonal antiserum against MG160. The protein was
ubiquitously and exclusively localized in the Golgi apparatus and appe
ared early in development within the ectoblast and primitive endoblast
prior to the formation of the primitive streak. At 2 to 3 days, MG160
was particularly prominent in the notochord, neural tube, somites, an
d cartilage cells. In organs with central lumens, such as the neural t
ube, the Gels apparatus, visualized by immunostaining for MG160, was e
longated and it was located at the apical pole of cells. In 6-day-old
embryos, the ongoing physiologic degeneration of the notochord was acc
ompanied by fragmentation of the immunostained Gels apparatus and decr
eased labeling of the mRNA for MG160. In order to gain information on
possible interactions between MG160 and basic fibroblast growth factor
(bFGF), the localization of both molecules was studied by immunocytoc
hemistry in 3-day-old chicken embryos. While MG160 was ubiquitous in t
he Golgi apparatus of all cells and tissues, endogenous bFGF was not d
etected, while exogenous bFGF bound only to basement membranes. These
results indicate that MG160 is a primordial protein of the Golgi appar
atus and are consistent with the hypothesis that the binding of MG160
to fibroblast growth factors and E-selectin is not related to the stil
l unknown principal function of MG160 in the Golgi apparatus. (C) 1995
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