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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 30, Issue 1 251-264, Copyright © 1978 by Company of Biologists

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Meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro: protein synthesis in nucleate and anucleate oocyte fragments

RM Schultz, GE Letourneau and PM Wassarman

Nucleate and anucleate fragments of mouse oocytes have been isolated following treatment of fully grown oocytes with cytochalasin B. The nucleate oocyte fragments resume meiosis in vitro, progressing from dictyate of the first meiotic prophase to metaphase II ('meiotic maturation'), and exhibit all of the changes in protein synthesis normally associated with meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes. The anucleate oocyte fragments also undergo certain of the changes in protein synthesis associated with meiotic maturation, despite the absence of nuclear progression. These results suggest that the acquisition of meiotic competence (i.e. the ability to undergo meiotic maturation) during growth of the mammalian oocyte is due to changes in the quality, rather than the quantity, of cytoplasm and that the reprogramming of protein synthesis during meiotic maturation is directed by RNA templates already present in the cytoplasm. The behaviour of anucleate oocyte fragments is discussed in terms of the proposed role for nucleoplasm in the initiation of changes in protein synthesis during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes.


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