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Mouse oocytes within germ cell cysts and primordial follicles contain a Balbiani body.


ABSTRACT: The Balbiani body or mitochondrial cloud is a large distinctive organelle aggregate found in developing oocytes of many species, but its presence in the mouse has been controversial. Using confocal and electron microscopy, we report that a Balbiani body does arise in mouse neonatal germline cysts and oocytes of primordial follicles but disperses as follicles begin to grow. The mouse Balbiani body contains a core of Golgi elements surrounded by mitochondria and associated endoplasmic reticulum. Because of their stage specificity and perinuclear rather than spherical distribution, these clustered Balbiani body mitochondria may have been missed previously. The Balbiani body also contains Trailer hitch, a widely conserved member of a protein complex that associates with endoplasmic reticulum/Golgi-like vesicles and transports specific RNAs during Drosophila oogenesis. Our results provide evidence that mouse oocytes develop using molecular and developmental mechanisms widely conserved throughout the animal kingdom.

SUBMITTER: Pepling ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1765432 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mouse oocytes within germ cell cysts and primordial follicles contain a Balbiani body.

Pepling Melissa E ME   Wilhelm James E JE   O'Hara Ashley L AL   Gephardt Grant W GW   Spradling Allan C AC  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061222 1


The Balbiani body or mitochondrial cloud is a large distinctive organelle aggregate found in developing oocytes of many species, but its presence in the mouse has been controversial. Using confocal and electron microscopy, we report that a Balbiani body does arise in mouse neonatal germline cysts and oocytes of primordial follicles but disperses as follicles begin to grow. The mouse Balbiani body contains a core of Golgi elements surrounded by mitochondria and associated endoplasmic reticulum. B  ...[more]

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