The coelomic egg envelope (CE) of the frog Lepidobatrachus laevis has a network of fibrillar bundles which disperse after transit through the oviduct. Following oviposition, the egg vitelline envelope (VE) has an additional amorphous zone on the exterior surface. The fertilization envelope (FE) formed after fertilization, appears to be very similar to the VE. The CEs, VEs, FEs and hatched envelopes (FE ) were manually isolated. The CE, VE and FE were solubilized at 100° using denaturing conditions, but were only partially solubilized in phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. All envelopes and several purified polypeptides from the VE and FE were analyzed using gel electrophoresis and one-dimensional peptide mapping. Each of the envelopes contained 9 major polypeptides ranging from 118.5 to 22 kD and 8-12 minor polypeptides. Several envelope components were added/removed in the conversions based on the results of experiments in which preparations were incubated with activated egg exudate and crude hatching enzyme; some of these transformations were mimicked by tryptic and chymotryptic digestions. Therefore, serine proteases may be involved in envelope processing in vivo. Lepidobatrachus CE polypeptides and several major components from the VE, FE and FE were crossreactive with antibodies against Xenopus VE .
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