... of cell nuclei into the germinal vesicle (GV) of a non-dividing Amphibian meiotic oocyte, which leads to the activation of silent genes in 24 hours and robustly induced a totipotency-like state in almost all transplanted cells. We apply the third route for potential therapeutic use and describe...

... in their core. Although multiple membrane-less organelles work in the oocyte nucleus, PML-NBs have been predicted to be absent from oocytes. Here, we show that some well-known PML clients (but not endogenous PML) co-localized with small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) protein in the nucleolus and peri...

...Raju Baskar; Anna Bakrhat; Uri Abdu ABSTRACT The polarized organization of the Drosophila oocyte can be visualized by examining the asymmetric localization of mRNAs, which is supported by networks of polarized microtubules (MTs). In this study, we used the gene forked , the putative Drosophila...

... are not well understood; however, dietary sucrose was reported to elevate oocyte Wolbachia titer in Drosophila melanogaster whereas dietary yeast decreased oocyte titer. To further investigate how oocyte Wolbachia titer is controlled, this study analyzed the response of w Mel Wolbachia to diets enriched...

... in fetal chimaeras. One adult female Gpi1 −/− ↔ Gpi1 c/c chimaera with functional Gpi1 −/− null oocytes was also identified in a preliminary study. The aims were to characterise the survival of Gpi1 −/− null cells in adult Gpi1 −/− ↔ Gpi1 c/c chimaeras and determine if Gpi1 −/− null germ cells...

...Jessica Patel; Seang Lin Tan; Geraldine M. Hartshorne; Andrew D. McAinsh ABSTRACT The first meiotic division in human oocytes is highly error-prone and contributes to the uniquely high incidence of aneuploidy observed in human pregnancies. A successful meiosis I (MI) division entails separation...