A long, nontranslatable poly(A) RNA stored in the egg of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Genes & Development
- Vol. 2 (3), 305-318
- https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.2.3.305
Abstract
Nontranslatable transcripts containing interspersed repetitive sequence elements constitute a major fraction of the poly(A) RNA stored in the cytoplasm of both the sea urchin egg and the amphibian oocyte. We report the first complete sequence of a representative interspersed maternal RNA transcript, called ISp1. The transcript is about 3.7 kb in length [including poly(A) tail]; and the 5' half consists of a cluster of repetitive sequences, whereas the 3' half is single copy. Other repetitive sequences occur in the 5' and 3' regions flanking the transcription unit. In several cloned alleles, the flanking repetitive and single-copy sequences differ, indicating a high degree of insertional and deletional rearrangement around, as well as within, the transcription unit. No significant open reading frames exist in any region of the ISp1 transcript, nor is it spliced to give rise to translatable mRNA in egg or embryo. A 620-nucleotide repetitive sequence element at the 5' end of the ISp1 transcript is also represented in a large number of other long interspersed maternal poly(A) RNAs. In addition, this sequence appears in a prevalent set of small polyadenylated RNAs about 600-nucleotides in length, which disappear almost completely by the gastrula stage of development. The structural features of the ISp1 RNA uncovered in this work exclude several hypotheses of interspersed maternal poly(A) RNA origin and function.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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