Article
In vivo functional analysis of ezrin during mouse blastocyst formation.
Developmental biology - 1 May 2001
Dard N, Louvet S, Santa-Maria A, Aghion J, Martin M, Mangeat P, Maro B
Abstract excerpt
During mouse blastocyst formation, a layer of outer cells differentiates in less than 48 h into a functional epithelium (the trophectoderm). Ezrin, an actin-binding structural component of microvilli in epithelial cells, is also involved in signal transduction and ionic pump control. In the mouse embryo, ezrin becomes restricted to the apical cortex of all blastomeres at compaction and of outer cells at later...
Topics
- Animals
- Blastocyst
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Embryology
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Luminescent Proteins
- Mice
- Microscopy, Video
- Morphogenesis
- Mutation
- Phosphoproteins
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins
- Sequence Deletion
