Cell Struct Funct 1984 Dec 01;94:369-80. doi: 10.1247/csf.9.369.

Protein synthesis in dorsal, ventral, animal and vegetal half-embryos of Xenopus laevis isolated at the 8-cell stage.

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Dorsal, ventral, animal and vegetal half-embryos of Xenopus laevis were isolated at the 8-cell stage, and their synthesis of protein examined during 12 h of culture. The kinetics of the uptake and incorporation of [35S]-methionine did not differ greatly among the four kinds of half-embryos. Two-dimensional gel electrophoreses showed that there were no detectable differences in the pattern of protein synthesis for the four types of half-embryos, at least during the first 6 h of culture which covered the period from the cleavage to late blastula stage. The patterns, however, changed greatly, especially between those of the animal and vegetal half-embryos, during the latter 6 h of culture which covered the period from the early gastrula to early neurula stage. These results are evidence that equal qualitative and quantitative maternal mRNA-dependent protein synthesis takes place in the four types of embryonic regions, including the vegetal half-embryos, although later in the post-blastular stages, syntheses of region-specific proteins start that are dependent on new genome expression.

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