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ArticleDevelopmental biology2007

Transcription reactivation steps stimulated by oocyte maturation in C. elegans.

Amy K Walker, Peter R Boag, T Keith Blackwell

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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 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amy K WalkerSection on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Peter R Boag
T Keith Blackwell
Joslin Diabetes Center · US

Funding

FUNCTIONS OF A CONSERVED GERMLINE HELICASE IN C.ELEGANSR01GM063826 · NIGMS · JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER · PI BLACKWELL, THOMAS KEITH · 2002 to 2005
$1.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM63826NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM063826
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing oocytes produce materials that will support early embryonic development then cease transcription before fertilization. Later, a distinct transcription program is established in the embryo. Little is understood about how these global gene regulation transitions are effected. We have investigated in C. elegans how oocyte transcription is influenced by maturation, a process that releases meiotic arrest and prepares for fertilization. By monitoring transcription-associated phosphorylation of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) C-terminal domain (CTD), we find that oocyte transcription shuts down independently of maturation. Surprisingly, maturation signals then induce CTD phosphorylation that is associated specifically with transcription initiation steps and accumulates to high levels when expression of the CTD phosphatase FCP-1 is inhibited. This CTD phosphorylation is also uncovered when a ubiquitylation pathway is blocked, or when maturation is stimulated precociously. CTD phosphorylation is similarly detected during embryonic mitosis, when transcription is also largely silenced. We conclude that oocyte maturation signals induce abortive transcription events in which FCP-1 may recycle phosphorylated Pol II and that analogous processes may occur during mitosis. Our findings suggest that maturation signals may initiate preparations for embryonic transcription, possibly as part of a broader program that begins the transition from maternal to zygotic gene expression.

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AnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansDNA PrimersImmunoblottingImmunohistochemistryOocytesPhosphorylationReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA InterferenceRNA Polymerase IISperm-Ovum InteractionsTranscriptional ActivationDNA PrimersRNA Polymerase II

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PMID17291483
PMCPMC1913287
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