Abstract
Xenopus oocytes have been used extensively in studies of RNA nuclear transport. They are readily obtained from adult females, are large enough to be easily manipulated and microinjected, and the nucleus can be manually dissected from the oocyte (Fig. 1), allowing a simple determination of nuclear transport by measurement of the cytoplasmic and nuclear pools of the RNA under study.
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Allison, L.A. (1999). Use of the Xenopus Oocyte System to Study RNA Transport. In: Lacal, J.C., Feramisco, J., Perona, R. (eds) Microinjection. Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8705-2_15
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