Joel Richter and his colleagues have made some very interesting observations by studying Xenopus oocyte and embryonic development. They found that several mRNAs that were polyadenylated in the ...

In this paper, however, we revealed that a single 45-kilodalton protein factor from Xenopus-mature oocytes is sufficient for activation of ...

CALHM1 and its C. elegans homolog, CLHM-1, exhibit similar biophysical properties when expressed in Xenopus oocytes and functional conservation when expressed in C. elegans. We are utilizing the ...