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Distribution of proteins labelled during meiotic maturation in rabbit and pig eggs at fertilization

J. Motlík, V. Kopen, J. Pivko and J. Fulka

Summary. The fate of proteins formed during meiotic maturation was examined after fertilization. Rabbit ovarian oocytes were labelled in vitro with [³H]lysine and fertilized after transfer to recipients. A significant accumulation of the label was detected autoradiographically only in fully grown male and female pronuclei.

Pig oocytes at the germinal vesicle and metaphase I stages were labelled with [³H]lysine, [³H]methionine or [³H]tryptophan and fertilized. Pronuclei were labelled by all 3 precursors. During cleavage, eggs labelled with [³H]lysine lost the nuclear label by the 4-cell stage. However the [³H]methionine label was present in the cytoplasm and marked in the nuclei at the 4-cell stage, while the [³H]tryptophan label was still clear in 8-cell embryos.