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Publication : Differential localization of villin and fimbrin during development of the mouse visceral endoderm and intestinal epithelium.

First Author  Ezzell RM Year  1989
Journal  Development Volume  106
Issue  2 Pages  407-19
PubMed ID  2686960 Mgi Jnum  J:289366
Mgi Id  MGI:6436762 Doi  10.1242/dev.106.2.407
Citation  Ezzell RM, et al. (1989) Differential localization of villin and fimbrin during development of the mouse visceral endoderm and intestinal epithelium. Development 106(2):407-19
abstractText  The apical surface of transporting epithelia is specially modified to absorb nutrients efficiently by amplifying its surface area as microvilli. Each microvillus is supported by an underlying core of bundled actin filaments. Villin and fimbrin are two actin-binding proteins that bundle actin filaments in the intestine and kidney brush border epithelium. To better understand their function in the assembly of the cytoskeleton during epithelial differentiation, we examined the pattern of villin and fimbrin expression in the developing mouse using immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy. Villin is first detected at day 5 in the primitive endoderm of the postimplantation embryo and is later restricted to the visceral endoderm. By day 8.5, villin becomes redistributed to the apical surface in the visceral endoderm, appearing in the gut at day 10 and concentrating in the apical cytoplasm of the differentiating intestinal epithelium 2-3 days later. In contrast, fimbrin is found in the oocyte and in all tissues of the early embryo. In both the visceral endoderm and gut epithelium, fimbrin concentrates at the apical surface 2-3 days after villin; this redistribution occurs when the visceral endoderm microvilli first contain organized microfilament bundles and when microvilli first begin to appear in the gut. These results suggest a common mechanism of assembly of the absorptive surface of two different tissues in the embryo and identify villin as a useful marker for the visceral endoderm.
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