Abstract
The messenger RNAs for five classes of histone proteins are shown by competitive RNA-DNA hybridization to be stored in the unfertilized egg of the sea urchin, Lytechinus pictus. The masked mRNAs for f2b, f2a2, f3 and f2al histones migrate in polyacrylamide slab gels with the same mobility as the histone mRNAs that are synthesized after fertilization and are found engaged in protein synthesis on polysomes. The masked maternal and embryonic mRNAs for histone f2a1 are identical in mobility when analyzed in a gel system capable of resolving differences estimated as small as 4–5 nucleotides in length. We conclude that these histone mRNAs synthesized during oogenesis and inactive prior to fertilization are not activated during embryogeny by alteration in their molecular size.
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