... of both maturation and developmental competence, as well as fulfill stage-specific cellular functions during oocyte maturation. * Present address: Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Environment and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan. ‡ Author...

... Oocyte maturation Endoplasmic reticulum Golgi Progesterone Qatar National Research Fund 10.13039/100008982 NPRP 7-709-3-195 Weill Cornell Medical College 10.13039/100007273 Qatar Foundation 10.13039/100007458 Progesterone (P4) is a steroid hormone...

...)90195-0 Cao , Q. and Richter , J. D. (2002). Dissolution of the maskin-eIF4E complex by cytoplasmic polyadenylation and poly(A)-binding protein controls cyclin B1 mRNA translation and oocyte maturation . EMBO J.   21 , 3852 - 3862 . 10.1093/emboj/cdf353 Chen , J...

... that it was expressed throughout oocyte maturation and attained a conspicuous cortical cluster organization in mature eggs. We show that its overexpression reduces the duration of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate-induced [Ca 2+ ] i rises, promotes initiation of oscillations and enhances refilling of [Ca 2+ ] ER...

...Bora Lee; Gianpiero Palermo; Khaled Machaca Summary A specialized Ca 2+ transient at fertilization represents the universal driver for the egg-to-embryo transition. Ca 2+ signaling remodels during oocyte maturation to endow the egg with the capacity to produce the specialized Ca 2+ transient...

... genetic interaction studies, we found that CDC-25.2 functions upstream of maturation-promoting factor containing CDK-1 and CYB-3 to promote oocyte maturation by counteracting function of WEE-1.3. We propose that cdc-25 family members function as distinct but related cell cycle regulators to control...

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