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. 1972 Jan;69(1):157–161. doi: 10.1073/pnas.69.1.157

Early Estrogen Action: Stimulation of the Metabolism of High Molecular Weight and Ribosomal RNAs

Dennis N Luck 1, Terrell H Hamilton 1
PMCID: PMC427566  PMID: 4500546

Abstract

Samples of RNA, isolated from uteri of ovariectomized adult rats treated with estrogen, have been analyzed on sucrose gradients. Treatment with estrogen either for 20 min or 2 hr increased the specific activity of all classes of uterine RNA, but produced no significant alteration in the distribution of radioactivity in the gradients, when animals received [3H]uridine intraperitoneally 15 min before they were killed. After labeling periods of 30 min, 1 hr, or 2 hr, however, the RNAs isolated from animals treated with estrogen had a smaller percentage of rapidly sedimenting (faster than 28S) species of RNA than did RNA from animals not treated with the hormone. The decreased percentage of high molecular weight RNA correlated with increases in both the specific activity of 28S and 18S RNA and the concentration of RNA in the whole organ. The labeled RNA of high molecular weight was also demonstrated, by the use of actinomycin D in vivo, to have a more rapid turnover rate in the estrogen-stimulated uterus. Our results indicate that estrogen increases not only the rate of synthesis of ribosomal RNA in the uterus of the ovariectomized adult rat, but also the rate or efficiency of processing of precursor RNA species of high molecular weight.

Keywords: estradiol-17β, RNA isolation, uterus, ribosomal RNA precursors, actinomycin D

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