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Lack of species specificity of starfish maturation-promoting factor

✍ Scribed by Takeo Kishimoto; Haruo Kanatani

Book ID
113156955
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
302 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-6480

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Maturation-promoting factor (MPF) has been known to be produced in the cytoplasm of starfish and amphibian oocytes, where it triggers meiotic maturation. Cytoplasm obtained from maturing oocytes of either mouse or surf clam was found to induce maturation when injected into immature starfish oocytes.