[The coiled bodies and satellite microbodies of the oocyte nuclei in hibernating Rana temporaria frogs contain actin].
Immunocytochemical analysis of preparation of dispersed nuclei content in oocytes of III-IV stages of oogenesis, in terms of Dumont (1972), from hibernating grass frogs using monoclonal antibodies against actin, revealed two types of intranuclear structures containing this protein: coiled bodies (CB) and satellite microbodies (SM). Staining of these preparations with Rhodamin-phalloidin, known specifically to interact with fibrillar actin, did not reveal it in these structures. Results of our biochemical studies, using protease ESP32 specifically cutting only globular actin, are suggesting that both CB and SM contain globular actin. Gall et al. (1975) proposed that CB may be involved in assembling and sorting of small nuclear RNA for the three main RNA processing pathways: pre-mRNA splicing, pre-rRNA processing, and histone pre-mRNA 3'-end formation. Our finding of actin in CB allows a suggestion on actin involvement in the transport of RNA processing complexes from CB to some actual places where processing of RNA takes place. According to our previous data (Tsvetkov, Parfenov., 1994), SM participate in the karyosphere capsule formation. This process is preceded by SM fusion triggered presumably by actin.
Tsvetkov
A G
AG
Kvasov
I D
ID
Khaĭtlina
S Iu
SIu
Parfenov
V N
VN
D000199:Actins / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005260:Female; D019084:Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect; D006605:Hibernation / Q000502:physiology*; D008830:Microbodies / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009865:Oocytes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011896:Rana temporaria / Q000378:metabolism*
D000199:Actins