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J Cell Biol 1972 May 01;532:474-82. doi: 10.1083/jcb.53.2.474.
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Stabilities of nuclear and messenger RNA molecules in sea urchin embryos.

Brandhorst BP , Humphreys T .


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The kinetics of accumulation of radioactive adenosine in adenosine triphosphate and in RNA of nuclear, cytoplasmic, and polysomal fractions of sea urchin embryos have been analyzed. 85% of the RNA synthesized decays in the nucleus with an apparently uniform half-life of about 7 min. The remaining 15% goes to the cytoplasm, mostly entering polysomes, and decays with a quite uniform half-life of about 75 min. The nuclear RNA accounts for one-third and the cytoplasmic RNA accounts for two-thirds of the total unstable RNA which accumulates at steady state in the embryo. The size distribution of short-labeled nuclear RNA is very similar to that of long-labeled messenger RNA, when both are extracted directly from the cells without a previous cell fractionation.

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Genes referenced: LOC100887844 LOC115919910

References [+] :
Aronson, Properties of nuclear RNA in sea urchin embryos. 1969, Pubmed, Echinobase