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The small nuclear RNAs for pre-mRNA splicing are coordinately regulated during oocyte maturation and early embryogenesis in the mouse.

The abundance and localization of snRNAs and snRNPs involved in processing and splicing of pre-mRNA has been studied during early mouse embryogenesis. The amount of U1, U2, U4, U5 and U6 RNA remains relatively constant between the postovulatory oocyte and 2-cell stage but increases three- to ten-fold in quantity between the 2-cell and blastocyst stages. Localization was examined by in situ hybridization with U1, U2 and U6 riboprobes and immunofluorescence microscopy using a monoclonal antibody to snRNP antigens. The snRNAs and snRNPs are primarily localized to the germinal vesicle in the preovulatory oocyte but are released and diluted within the cytoplasm of the oocyte during germinal vesicle breakdown and meiotic maturation. They subsequently relocalize to both pronuclei following fertilization and the nuclei of the 2-cell embryo following the first cleavage division. Since the amount of snRNA is constant during the first cleavage, the small amount of pre-mRNA that is synthesized at the time of transcriptional activation in the 2-cell embryo may be spliced and processed by snRNPs of maternal origin.[1]

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  1. The small nuclear RNAs for pre-mRNA splicing are coordinately regulated during oocyte maturation and early embryogenesis in the mouse. Dean, W.L., Seufert, A.C., Schultz, G.A., Prather, R.S., Simerly, C., Schatten, G., Pilch, D.R., Marzluff, W.F. Development (1989) [Pubmed]
 
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