Lariat intronic RNAs in the cytoplasm of Xenopus tropicalis oocytes.PDFVIP

Lariat intronic RNAs in the cytoplasm of Xenopus tropicalis oocytes GAËLLE J.S. TALHOUARNE1,2 and JOSEPH G. GALL1,2 1Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA 2 Department of Biology, Mudd Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA ABSTRACT We previously demonstrated that the oocyte nucleus (germinal vesicle or GV) of Xenopus tropicalis contains a population of stable RNA molecules derived from the introns of most expressed genes. Here we show that similar stable intronic sequence (sis) RNAs occur in the oocyte cyto