Volume 51 (12): 1581-1587, 2003 Copyright ©The Histochemical Society, Inc. Hsp40 Is Involved in Cilia Regeneration in Sea Urchin Embryos
Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo Alberto Monroy, Palermo, Italy Correspondence to: Caterina Casano, Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo Alberto Monroy, Viale delle Scienze, Parco d'Orleans, Piazza Alessandro Cestelli, 90128 Palermo, Italy. E-mail: cascate{at}unipa.it
In a previous paper we demonstrated that, in Paracentrotus lividus embryos, deciliation represents a specific kind of stress that induces an increase in the levels of an acidic protein of about 40 kD (p40). Here we report that deciliation also induces an increase in Hsp40 chaperone levels and enhancement of its ectodermal localization. We suggest that Hsp40 might play a chaperoning role in cilia regeneration. (J Histochem Cytochem 51:15811587, 2003)
Key Words: Hsp40 deciliation sea urchin
BOTH prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms show rapid adaptive responses to physical and chemical changes in their environments. Among these physiological defense mechanisms, the stress response involves rapid reduction of bulk protein synthesis and induction of a set of cytoprotective proteins, conserved in evolution, known as heat shock proteins (Hsps). Most Hsps are constitutively present in cells, also in the absence of any stress, and play a key role in protein folding and degradation. In addition, Hsps synthesis is enhanced by a wide variety of stressing conditions, such as temperature increase and/or exposure to heavy metals, amino acid analogues, or cytotoxic drugs, all of which lead to accumulation of aberrant non-native proteins. Although most of these stimuli primarily induce synthesis of members of the Hsp70 family of chaperones, each kind of stress affects the expression of specific combinations of stress proteins.
The Paracentrotus lividus sea urchin embryo provides a clear-cut example of differential stress response. After the blastula stage, both heat shock (Roccheri et al. 1981
Recently, we reported that deciliation of Paracentrotus lividus embryos can be considered a further kind of stress. In this case, however, the Hsp70 family did not show any change, although a significant modification in the concentration of an acidic stress protein of about 40 kDa (p40) was noticed (Casano et al. 1998 Two-dimensional electrophoresis has been previously used to analyze the repertoires of proteins induced by specific stresses. In the present study we used a modified two-dimensional electrophoresis (i.e., NEPHGE/SDS-PAGE), that also allows identification of more basic proteins, to better characterize proteins induced by embryo deciliation, Western and immunocytochemical analyses. We found that deciliation stress also causes an increase in Hsp40 levels, thus suggesting that this chaperone is involved in the assembly of newly growing cilia.
Culture of Embryos Under Physiological or Stressing Conditions Adult sea urchins of the Mediterranean species Paracentrotus lividus were collected along the western Sicilian coast. Eggs were fertilized and embryos were grown at a concentration of 5000/ml in Millipore-filtered sea water containing antibiotics, in a beaker with a rotating propeller, until the desired stages were reached.
For animalizing treatment, zinc ions were added as 1.0 mM ZnSO4, 30 min after fertilization. Embryos were then cultured for 22 hr until they reached an age corresponding to the gastrula stage of normal embryos (Lallier 1975
Deciliation/Cilia Regeneration To label proteins, embryos were incubated with 50 µCi/ml of [35S]-1-methionine (specific activity 1000 Ci/mM; Amersham Bioscience, Fair Lawn, NJ) for 30 min after restoration of normal saline conditions.
Cilia Isolation
Sample Preparation and Electrophoretic Analysis
Two-dimensional analysis included non-equilibrium pH gradient electrophoresis (NEPHGE) as first dimension, and SDS-PAGE as second dimension. NEPHGE was performed according to O'Farrell (1975)
Western Analyses
Whole-mount Immunocytochemistry To prepare thin sections, embryos were fixed in Carnoy's solution for 90 min and embedded in paraffin. Sections 5 µm thick were allowed to adhere to poly-L-lysine-pretreated slides. Deparaffinization was obtained by soaking the slides twice for 8 min with xylene. Hydration was obtained by successively rinsing the slides with 100% (twice for 3 min), 95% (twice for 3 min), and 70% ethanol (twice for 3 min). Slides were finally rinsed in deionized water. Hydrated sections (on average 34/experiment) were incubated with the same antibodies used for whole embryos as described above.
It has recently been demonstrated that chaperones are common components of cilia and flagella, in which they are likely to be involved in axonemal protein dynamics (Stephens and Lemieux 1999
Sea urchin embryos at the early gastrula stage were deciliated and incubated with 50 µCi of [35S]-methionine as described in
Basic Hsp40 (Hattori et al. 1993
As shown in Figure 2
, Hsp40 is already present in control embryos (Lane 1), but increases after deciliation (Lane 2). Computerized quantitative analysis has in fact shown that deciliation causes about a twofold increase of Hsp40 in deciliated embryos. Moreover, it is highly concentrated in cilia isolated from control embryos (Figure 2, Lane 3). When we analyzed its distribution in the embryo by whole-mount immunolocalization, we confirmed the presence of Hsp40 in control embryos (Figures 3A and 3B
; two different focal planes are shown) and found that Hsp40 is localized mainly in the ectodermal layer, as well as in cilia and the inner surface of the archenteron which, at this stage of development, presents short and stubby cilia (Hardin 1987
A comparative analysis of results obtained by Western blotting and whole-mount immunolocalization suggested that deciliation could induce both increase and preferential localization of Hsp40. To clarify this point, we immunostained embryo sections. The results confirmed that Hsp40 was much more concentrated in fourfold deciliated (Figure 3H) than in control (Figure 3G) embryos and showed in addition that the protein accumulates at the apical surface of ectodermal cells. To better clarify the possible involvement of Hsp40 in ciliogenesis, we performed whole-mount immunolocalization experiments on animalized embryos. Animalization of P. lividus embryos is induced by adding to sea water low concentrations of zinc ions from fertilization onward. Zinc-treated embryos have unusually long cilia resembling those in the apical tuft. We found that zinc-treated embryos accumulate Hsp40, especially in cilia and in their basal region (Figures 4A and 4B ; two focal planes).
It is worth noting that cilia and their basal region are also immunostained by anti-axonemal -tubulin antibodies (Figures 4C and 4D; two focal planes). Conversely, using the corresponding antibodies, we did not find any evidence of Hsp70 or Hsp60 accumulation (data not shown).
Because it has been reported that in P. lividus Hsp 70 is localized in the centrosomes (Agueli et al. 2001
Sea urchin embryos can be uniformly deciliated by hypertonic shock. However, after a short lag, if deciliated embryos are allowed to develop in isotonic sea water, cilia are re-formed (Auclair and Siegel 1966
Eukaryotic cilia and flagella are built up and maintained through a process called intraflagellar transport (Marshall and Rosenbaum 1999
Interestingly, the amount of Hsc78 remains constant before, during, and after deciliation (Casano et al. 1998
In this study we show that Hsp40 is constitutively expressed in sea urchin embryos and that its synthesis is further enhanced by deciliation. In addition, we report its preferential localization in the ectodermal apical layer and in the basal region of the cilia, thus suggesting its specific involvement in cilia regeneration.These data are consistent with an involvement of the Golgi apparatus in cilia regeneration (Stephens 2001
Interestingly, we also found Hsp 40 in the centrosomal region, in two-cell embryos.The presence of chaperones in the centrosome has been already documented. In particular, members of the Hsp70 family have been described as cell cycle-specific components of the centrosome in HeLa cells (Rattner 1991
It is also worth noting that, before hatching, each sea urchin embryonic blastomere carries a single cilium and that, after telophase, a mitotic centriole pair (diplosome) moves towards the apical membrane and, on reaching it, one of the centrioles serves as basal body (Stephens 1994 In conclusion, our data demonstrated for the first time both the presence of Hsp 40 in P. lividus embryos and its preferential localization in the ectodermal apical region and in centrosomes.
In addition, we found that Hsp40 concentration increases after deciliation, as well as (along with axonemic
Supported by grants from MIUR and CNR (60% and Stress no. 99.02499). We thank I. Di Liegro for discussions and critical reading of the manuscript.
Received for publication June 18, 2003; accepted August 13, 2003
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