Abstract
We have isolated a yolk glycoprotein complex from eggs and early embryos of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of these complexes and peptide mapping of their individual glycoprotein components indicate that developmental stage-specific changes in molecular composition of the complex are due to proteolytic processing events. Our data revealed that a 180 kDa glycoprotein of the egg complex is separated by a single proteolytic cleavage into intermediate glycoproteins of 115 and 76 kDa early in development. By the hatched blastula stage, each of these intermediate glycoproteins has been further processed to lower molecular weight forms: the 115 kDa protein is proteolytically clipped to a 84 kDa form, perhaps through 110 and 105 kDa intermediaries, while the 76 kDa molecule is directly processed to a 65 kDa form.
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