Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells

Spicher, A. ; Etter, A. ; Bernard, V. ; Tobler, H. ; Muller, F.

Amsterdam : Elsevier
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0012-1606
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autor Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
autorsonst Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
book_url http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/dbio.1994.1181
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fussnote The single-copy gone fert-1 becomes eliminated from all somatic cells during the process of chromatin diminution in Ascaris lumbricoides var. suum . By using Northern blot and in situ hybridization techniques, we have analyzed its rather unusual expression pattern. Different splicing and 3' end formation events generate in a developmentally regulated manner various poly(A)^+ and poly(A)^-fert-1 RNA species. The lack of any significant open reading frame in most of its RNA products indicates that fert-1 may function as structural RNA rather than encoding a protein. Fert-1 transcripts are produced in the precursors of the gametes, but degraded at the time of meiosis and not passed on to the zygote. Embryonic transcription of fert-1 sets in as soon as the female nucleus has completed its meiosis. Our data thus demonstrate that the Ascaris transcription apparatus is active prior to the general onset of zygotic transcription, which we think takes place in the four- to six-cell-stage embryos. Upon elimination of fert-1 gene from the somatic cells, most of its transcripts disappear. Two short fert-1 RNA products, however, are stably maintained throughout development until the second larval stage, which is more than 1 month after the elimination of their coding sequences. Possible functions of fert-1 are discussed.
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shingle_author_1 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
shingle_author_2 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
shingle_author_3 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
shingle_author_4 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
shingle_catch_all_1 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
0012-1606
00121606
Elsevier
shingle_catch_all_2 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
0012-1606
00121606
Elsevier
shingle_catch_all_3 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
0012-1606
00121606
Elsevier
shingle_catch_all_4 Spicher, A.
Etter, A.
Bernard, V.
Tobler, H.
Muller, F.
Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
0012-1606
00121606
Elsevier
shingle_title_1 Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
shingle_title_2 Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
shingle_title_3 Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
shingle_title_4 Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
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titel Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
titel_suche Extremely Stable Transcripts May Compensate for the Elimination of the Gene fert-1 from All Ascaris lumbricoides Somatic Cells
The single-copy gone fert-1 becomes eliminated from all somatic cells during the process of chromatin diminution in Ascaris lumbricoides var. suum . By using Northern blot and in situ hybridization techniques, we have analyzed its rather unusual expression pattern. Different splicing and 3' end formation events generate in a developmentally regulated manner various poly(A)^+ and poly(A)^-fert-1 RNA species. The lack of any significant open reading frame in most of its RNA products indicates that fert-1 may function as structural RNA rather than encoding a protein. Fert-1 transcripts are produced in the precursors of the gametes, but degraded at the time of meiosis and not passed on to the zygote. Embryonic transcription of fert-1 sets in as soon as the female nucleus has completed its meiosis. Our data thus demonstrate that the Ascaris transcription apparatus is active prior to the general onset of zygotic transcription, which we think takes place in the four- to six-cell-stage embryos. Upon elimination of fert-1 gene from the somatic cells, most of its transcripts disappear. Two short fert-1 RNA products, however, are stably maintained throughout development until the second larval stage, which is more than 1 month after the elimination of their coding sequences. Possible functions of fert-1 are discussed.
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