Abstract
Amnionic ectoderm of 6.8-day chicken embryos was associated with 6.8-day dorsal dermis or 13-15-day scale dermis and cultured on host chorio-allantoic membrane for 8 days. The amnionic ectoderm, recombined and cultured with the dorsal dermis, developed feather filaments consisted of a feather root, a horny sheath, and barb ridges. With several feather keratin-specific monoclonal antibodies (4E12 and 1F3), these structures in the induced feather filaments were shown to express feather-specific keratin antigens. The amnionic ectoderm, recombined and cultured with the shank dermis, became stratified squamous and developed scales. The scales were keratinized and their surface reacted only weakly with the monoclonal antibodies specific for the feather keratins. However, 1F3 reacted with two polypeptides in the cytoskeletal fraction of the scales, but not of the feather filaments. The results confirm our previous findings from in vitro experiments with the proamnionic ectoderm (Mizuno, 1970, 1972).
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