Background: India is one of the nation’s leading in number preterm births (PTB), as reported by WHO. Despite extensive research exact cause PTB remains elusive. The present study was designed to effect inflammatory genes (proinflammatory IL-6 and anti-inflammatory IL-10) etiopathogenesis idiopathic PTB.Methods: Maternal blood placental tissue samples cases (n=263) equal term delivery controls w...

microRNAs (or miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs (21 to 25 nucleotides) that are processed from longer hairpin RNA precursors and are believed to be involved in a wide range of developmental and cellular processes, by either repressing translation or triggering mRNA degradation (RNA interference). By using a computer-assisted approach, we have identified 46 potential miRNA genes located in the hu...

Abstract Early stages of embryogenesis depend on subcellular localization and transport maternal mRNA. However, systematic analysis these processes is hindered by a lack spatio-temporal information in single-cell RNA sequencing. Here, we combine spatially-resolved transcriptomics labeling to perform the transcriptome during early zebrafish development. We measure spatial mRNA molecules within o...

Mammalian oocyte maturation depends on the translational activation of stored maternal mRNAs upon meiotic resumption. Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein 1 (CPEB1) is a key oocyte factor that regulates maternal mRNA translation. However, the signal that triggers CPEB1 activation at the onset of mammalian oocyte maturation is not known. We provide evidence that a mitogen-activate...

The microbial environment in early infancy or even in utero may modulate the risk to develop allergic disease. Since Toll-like receptors (TLR) recognize microbial products, we hypothesized that maternal allergies may be associated with decreased levels of TLR2, TLR4 and CD14 mRNA in mothers and their offspring. 185 healthy pregnant women from Germany (n = 48), Hungary (n = 50) and Spain (n = 87...

Mammalian oocytes are arrested at prophase I of meiosis, and resume meiosis prior to ovulation. Coordination of meiotic arrest and resumption is partly dependent on the post-transcriptional regulation of maternal transcripts. Here, we report that, SPINDLIN1 (SPIN1), a maternal protein containing Tudor-like domains, interacts with a known mRNA-binding protein SERBP1, and is involved in regulatin...

Estrogen surge following progesterone withdrawal at parturition plays an important role in initiating maternal behavior in various rodent species. Systemic estrogen treatment shortens the latency to onset of maternal behavior in nulliparous female rats that have not experienced parturition. In contrast, nulliparous laboratory mice show rapid onset of maternal behavior without estrogen treatment...

Egg P bodies protect maternal mRNA P bodies (processing bodies) are cytoplasmic granules that, in somatic cells, store and degrade mRNAs. But P bodies in the worm egg protect mRNA, according to a study by Boag et al. In a separate study Noble et al. observed that worm eggs have different fl avors of P bodies depending on developmental stage. Boag et al. showed that P bodies in eggs lack an mRNA...

Translational recruitment of maternal mRNAs is an essential process in early metazoan development. To identify genes required for this regulatory pathway, we have examined a collection of Drosophila female-sterile mutants for defects in translation of maternal mRNAs. This strategy has revealed that maternal-effect mutations in the cortex and grauzone genes impair translational activation and cy...

Early frog embryogenesis depends on a maternal pool of mRNA to execute critical intercellular signalling events. FGF receptor-1, which is required for normal development, is stored as a stable, untranslated maternal mRNA transcript in the fully grown immature oocyte, but is translationally activated at meiotic maturation. We have identified a short cis-acting element in the FGF receptor 3' untr...