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ArticleDevelopmental biology2007

Selective degradation of transcripts during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes.

You-Qiang Su, Koji Sugiura, Yong Woo, Karen Wigglesworth, Sonya Kamdar, Jason Affourtit, John J Eppig

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Article in Developmental biology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 162 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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162citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

162 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 315 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

You-Qiang SuThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA.
Koji Sugiura
Yong Woo
Karen Wigglesworth
Sonya Kamdar
Jason Affourtit
John J Eppig
Jackson Laboratory · US

Funding

OOCYTE CULTURE CONDITIONS THAT PROMOTE EMBRYOGENESISR37HD021970 · NICHD · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI EPPIG, JOHN J · 2000 to 2009
$5.6M
DEVELOPMENT OF MAMMALIAN OOCYTE-GRANULOSA CELL COMPLEXR01HD023839 · NICHD · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI EPPIG, JOHN J · 1988 to 2012
$4.8M
OOCYTE CULTURE CONDITIONS THAT PROMOTE EMBRYOGENESISU01HD021970 · NICHD · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI EPPIG, JOHN J · 1986 to 1999
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NHLBI NIH HHS HL073341NICHD NIH HHS HD21970NICHD NIH HHS HD23839NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD023839NICHD NIH HHS R37 HD021970NICHD NIH HHS U01 HD021970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is massive destruction of transcripts during the maturation of mouse oocytes. The objective of this project was to identify and characterize the transcripts that are degraded versus those that are stable during the transcriptionally silent germinal vesicle (GV)-stage to metaphase II (MII)-stage transition using a microarray approach. A system for oocyte transcript amplification using both internal and 3'-poly(A) priming was utilized to minimize the impact of complex variations in transcript polyadenylation prevalent during this transition. Transcripts were identified and quantified using the Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 v2.0 GeneChip. The significantly changed and stable transcripts were analyzed using Ingenuity Pathways Analysis and GenMAPP/MAPPFinder to characterize the biological themes underlying global changes in oocyte transcripts during maturation. It was concluded that the destruction of transcripts during the GV to MII transition is a selective rather than promiscuous process in mouse oocytes. In general, transcripts involved in processes that are associated with meiotic arrest at the GV-stage and the progression of oocyte maturation, such as oxidative phosphorylation, energy production, and protein synthesis and metabolism, were dramatically degraded. In contrast, transcripts encoding participants in signaling pathways essential for maintaining the unique characteristics of the MII-arrested oocyte, such as those involved in protein kinase pathways, were the most prominent among the stable transcripts.

Indexed as

RNA StabilityAnimalsFemaleGene Expression ProfilingMeiosisMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMiceMice, Inbred StrainsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOocytesOvarian FollicleReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerTranscription, GeneticRNA, Messenger

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PMID17022963
PMCPMC1847322
OpenAlexW2042868184

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