CHANGING RATES OF HISTONE MESSENGER-RNA SYNTHESIS AND TURNOVER IN DROSOPHILA EMBRYOS
CHANGING RATES OF HISTONE MESSENGER-RNA SYNTHESIS AND TURNOVER IN DROSOPHILA EMBRYOS
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(80)90435-3
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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64.5
通讯作者:
LENGYEL, JA
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作者:
ANDERSON, KV;LENGYEL, JA
The rates of synthesis and turnover of histone mRNA in D. melanogaster embryos were determined by hybridization of in vivo and in vitro labeled embryonic RNA to D. melanogaster histone DNA of the recombinant plasmid cDm500. There is a large store of maternal histone mRNA, equivalent to at least 7 .times. 107 copies of each of the 5 classes of histone mRNA per embryo. Embryonic synthesis of histone mRNA begins at 90 min after oviposition, making the histone genes among the 1st to be transcribed by embryonic nuclei. Embryonic histone mRNA accumulates rapidly during the blastoderm and gastrula stages. The peak in the rate of histone mRNA synthesis per embryo coincides with the peak in the rate of DNA synthesis per embryo, which occurs at 6 h after oviposition. After 6 h, as the rate of DNA synthesis per embryo decreases, the rate of histone mRNA synthesis and the total mass of histone mRNA per embryo both drop sharply. The rate of histone mRNA synthesis per gene falls > 60-fold in the 1st 13 h after oviposition, from 1.3-2.5 copies per gene-min at 2 h to 0.02-0.03 copies per gene-min at 13 h. Measurements of the mass of histone mRNA per embryo and of the rate of accumulation of newly synthesized histone mRNA at a number of stages of early embryogenesis suggested that the cytoplasmic half-life of histone mRNA decreases .apprx. 7-fold during early D. melanogaster development, from 2.3 h at blastoderm to 20 min by the end of gastrulation. The level of expression of histone genes in D. melanogaster development is controlled by the size of the maternal mRNA pool, changes in the rate of histone mRNA synthesis, and changes in the rate of histone mRNA turnover.