Title: Cell surface binding sites for peanut agglutinin in the differentiating eye disc of Drosophila
Abstract: The distribution of peanut agglutinin (PNA) binding sites in imaginal discs is described using fluorescence and electron microscopy. PNA binds preferentially to the photoreceptor cell precursors in eye discs resulting in a rectilinear array of fluorescent spots that reflects that lattice-like arrangement of the presumptive ommatidia. The lectin binds to the apical surface of fixed disc cells and is taken up in presumed endocytotic vesicles in living discs. Photoreceptor precursors can be visualized with fluorescein isothyocyanate-PNA from the time they first form preclusters in the morphogenetic furrow and this technique is used to demonstrate a temperature-sensitive defect in precluster formation in the mutant shibire. PNA is localized along the sides of microvilli of disc cells, in general. The preferential binding of PNA to photoreceptor precursors is related in part to the high density of apical microvilli on these cells.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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