Figure 11.

Expression from the distal cistron of a dicistronic mRNA increases in oocytes overexpressing PABP. Expression from the 5′-distal luc cistron of the dicistronic constructs used in Figure 9 in oocytes overexpressing PABP is reported as the percent change relative to expression from the same constructs in control oocytes. A value <100% represents a decrease in expression from the distal luc cistron in oocytes overexpressing PABP relative to expression in control oocytes, whereas a value >100% represents an increase in expression from the distal luc cistron in oocytes overexpressing PABP relative to expression in control oocytes. Each construct is designated by the length of its intercistronic region (i.e. no SL) or distance between the secondary structure and the initiation codon (i.e. with SL) below each histogram.