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Re-localization of nuclear DNA helicase II during the growth period of bovine oocytes

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Nuclear DNA helicase II (NDH II) is the bovine homolog of human RNA helicase A. The aim of this study was to compare NDH II localization between somatic cells (bovine embryonal fibroblasts) and female germ cells (oocytes), with the main focus on the dynamic changes in the redistribution of NDH II during the growth phase of the bovine oocytes. The fine granular staining of NDH II was spread in the whole nucleoplasm of fibroblasts, excluding the reticulated nucleoli. In contrast, the large reticulated nucleoli of the growing oocytes isolated from early antral follicles exhibited strong positivity for NDH II together with the immunostaining signals of upstream binding factor (UBF) and RNA polymerase I subunit (PAF53), documenting the high synthetic activity of these nucleoli. At the time of termination of oocyte growth, NDH II was preferentially located at the nucleolar periphery together with proteins of fibrillar centres. In fully grown oocytes, NDH II was still present in the thin periphery shell around the compact nucleolar core. The semiquantitative RT-PCR revealed that the average signal of NDH II mRNA in fully grown oocytes was only at 40% level in comparison with growing oocytes. Western blot analysis further confirmed that a 140 kD NDH II protein was abundant in growing oocytes, while the signal was substantially weaker in fully grown oocytes. The significant decrease in NDH II gene expression and in NDH II mRNA translation correlates with a termination of the oocyte growth. Altogether, the results demonstrate that NDH II expression parallels the activity of ribosomal RNA biosynthesis in the bovine growing oocytes.

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This work was supported by grant 523/03/0857 of Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences grant VEGA 2/3065/23

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    Jan Motlík

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    Vladimír Baran

  3. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic , Liběchov, Czech Republic

    Hana Kovářová & Jiří Klíma

  4. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic , Prague, Czech Republic

    Pavel Hozák

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Baran, V., Kovářová, H., Klíma, J. et al. Re-localization of nuclear DNA helicase II during the growth period of bovine oocytes. Histochem Cell Biol 125, 155–164 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00418-005-0075-z

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