Nuclear mRNA processing domain formed by PABPN1 - mRNA phase separation is essential for the growth of oocytes and female reproduction
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ABSTRACT: The growing oocytes stored a large amount of maternal mRNA to support the subsequent "maternal-zygotic transition" process, which is a key regulatory events in female reproduction. The accumulation of maternal mRNA in the growing oocyte determines the developmental potential of the oocyte. At present, it is not clear how the growing oocytes store and process the newly transcribed mRNA under physiological conditions, including the distribution and localization of mRNA in the oocyte, as well as the molecular mechanism and physiological significance of this localization. In this study, we found that poly(A) tailed mRNA has the dynamic distributions of droplet fusion and gradual disappearance in the mouse nucleus as oocyte growth and meiotic maturation. Our research found that PABPN1 modulated the dynamic compartmentalization of mRNA with poly(A) tails to form NmPD (nuclear mRNA processing domain) during the growing oocytes through phase separation. The NmPD in Pabpn1-null oocytes could not form the compartmentalized distribution, and the Pabpn1 knockout females were sterile with defects of premature ovarian failure. Combined with multi-omics sequencing analysis, we investigate that NmPD was essential for long 3'-UTR isoform formation and the stability of mRNA in growing oocytes.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE179406 | GEO | 2021/07/06
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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