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  • Title: Filipin-labelled complexes are polarized in their distribution in the cytoplasm of meiotically mature mouse eggs.
    Author: Allworth A, Ziomek CA.
    Journal: Gamete Res; 1988 Aug; 20(4):475-89. PubMed ID: 3235054.
    Abstract:
    Unfertilized (germinal vesicle [GV] stage, superovulated and naturally ovulated) and fertilized mouse eggs were treated with the polyene antibiotic filipin, which complexes with unesterified sterols; specimens were observed by fluorescence microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In all oocytes examined, filipin fluorescence was localized to the plasma membrane and to subcellular structures of various sizes. In the unfertilized oocyte, polarity was observed both in the plasma membrane stain and in the pattern formed by the subcellular structures. SEM of filipin-treated oocytes had several characteristic features including a specific distribution of heterogeneous microvilli that appears to have a spatial relationship with the fluorescent pattern of the filipin-positive subcellular structures. In GV stage and fertilized eggs the filipin-positive subcellular structures were associated with the germinal vesicle and in fertilized eggs they were associated with the site of polar body abstriction.
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