Evidence that XR family interspersed RNA may regulate translation in Xenopus oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development
C Liu, L D Smith

Abstract

It has been shown that about two thirds of Xenopus oocyte or sea urchin egg cytoplasmic poly(A)+ RNA contains interspersed repetitive sequences. The functional significance of this interspersed RNA has remained unknown. Here the function of a subfamily of interspersed RNA (XR family; McGrew and Richter, 1989: Dev Biol 134:267-270) in Xenopus oocytes was studied. We found that the elimination of T7 XR (one of the two complementary strands of the XR repeat) interspersed RNA by complementary oligodeoxynucleotides significantly inhibited protein synthesis. On the other hand, the injection of in vitro synthesized T7 XR RNA stimulated translation. Moreover, the insertion of the T7 XR RNA sequence into globin mRNA repressed the translation of the globin mRNA. In order to explain these results, we analyzed interactions between the XR interspersed RNA and oocyte proteins. We found that the major XR RNA binding proteins were p56 and p60, which could be the known mRNA "masking" proteins that bind mRNA and inhibit translation. Further, a 42 kD protein has been identified that appears to bind T7 XR RNA relatively specifically, although it interacts with mRNA with a lower affinity. Based on all of these data, we have proposed that interspers...Continue Reading

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