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Maternal mRNA deadenylation and allocation via Rbm14 condensates facilitates vertebrate blastula development


ABSTRACT: Early embryonic development depends on proper utilization and clearance of maternal transcriptomes. How these processes are spatiotemporally regulated remains unclear. Here we show that nuclear RNA-binding protein Rbm14 and maternal mRNAs co-phase separate into cytoplasmic condensates to facilitate vertebrate blastula-to-gastrula development. In zebrafish, Rbm14 condensates were highly abundant in blastomeres and markedly reduced after prominent activation of zygotic transcription. They concentrated at spindle poles by associating with centrosomal -tubulin puncta and displayed mainly asymmetric divisions with a global symmetry across embryonic midline in 8-cell and 16-cell embryos. Their formation was dose-dependently stimulated by m6A, but repressed by m5C, epigenetic modifications. Furthermore, deadenylase Parn co-phase separated with the condensates to actively deadenylate the mRNAs in early blastomeres. Depletion of Rbm14 impaired embryonic cell differentiations and full activations of zygotic genomes in both zebrafish and mouse and resulted in severe blastula arrest. Our results suggest that cytoplasmic Rbm14 condensates regulate early embryogenesis by deadenylating, protecting, mitotically allocating m6A-modified maternal mRNAs, and releasing the poly(A)-less transcripts upon regulated disassembly to allow their re-polyadenylation and translation or clearance.

SUBMITTER: Dr. Yue Xiao 

PROVIDER: S-SCDT-10_15252-EMBJ_2022111364 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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