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Citation Raff, J.W., Whitfield, W.G., Glover, D.M. (1990). Two distinct mechanisms localise cyclin B transcripts in syncytial Drosophila embryos.  Development 110(4): 1249--1261. (Export to RIS)
FlyBase ID FBrf0051552
Publication Type Research paper
PubMed ID 2151612
PubMed Abstract We demonstrate that two independent mechanisms act on maternally derived cyclin B transcripts to concentrate the transcripts at the posterior pole of the Drosophila oocyte and at the cortex of the syncytial embryo. The cortical accumulation occurs because the cyclin B transcript is concentrated around nuclei and comigrates with them to the cortex. The perinuclear localisation of the transcript is blocked by inhibitors of microtubule polymerisation and the transcript colocalises with microtubular structures during the cell cycle, suggesting that the transcript is associated either directly or indirectly with microtubules. Neither microtubules nor actin filaments are required to maintain the posterior concentration of cyclin B transcripts. Instead, this seems to depend on the association of the transcripts with a component of the posterior cytoplasm. The distribution pattern of the transcript at the posterior pole throughout embryogenesis and in a variety of mutant embryos suggests that this component is associated with polar granules.
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