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Nakanishi, T. et al.

Possible role of mouse poly(A) polymerase mGLD-2 during oocyte maturation.

Cytoplasmic polyadenylation of mRNAs is involved in post-transcriptional regulation of genes, including translational activation. In addition to yeast Cid1 and Cid13 and mouse TPAP, GLD-2 has been recently identified as a cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerase in Caenorhabditis elegans and Xenopus oocytes. In this study, we have characterized mouse GLD-2, mGLD-2, in adult tissues, meiotically maturing oocytes, and NIH3T3 cultured cells. mGLD-2 was ubiquitously present in all tissues and cells tested. mGLD-2 was localized in the nucleus as well as in the cytoplasm of somatic, testicular, and cultured cells. Transfection of expression plasmids encoding mGLD-2 and the mutant proteins into NIH3T3 cells revealed that a 17-residue sequence in the N-terminal region of mGLD-2 probably acts as a localization signal required for the transport into the nucleus. Analysis of reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction indicated the presence of mGLD-2 mRNA in the oocytes throughout meiotic maturation. However, 54-kDa mGLD-2 was found in the oocytes only at the metaphases I and II after germinal vesicle breakdown, presumably due to translational control. When mGLD-2 synthesis was artificially inhibited and enhanced by injection of double-stranded and polyadenylated RNAs into the germinal vesicle-stage oocytes, respectively, oocyte maturation was significantly arrested at the metaphase-I stage. These results suggest that mGLD-2 may act in the ooplasm on the progression of metaphase I to metaphase II during oocyte maturation.[1]

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Possible role of mouse poly(A) polymerase mGLD-2 during oocyte maturation. Nakanishi, T., Kubota, H., Ishibashi, N., Kumagai, S., Watanabe, H., Yamashita, M., Kashiwabara, S., Miyado, K., Baba, T. Dev. Biol. (2006) [Pubmed]

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