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The maintenance of oocytes in the mammalian ovary involves extreme protein longevity (2024)


Harasimov, Gorry, Welp, Penir, Horokhovskyi et al. analyse proteostasis in mammalian oocytes and ovaries: the maintenance of oocytes involves exceptional protein longevity, and many of the extremely long-lived proteins decline as the ovary ages.

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