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More than G1 or G2 arrest: useful starfish oocyte system for investigating skillful MAP kinase
1Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, Graduate School of Bioscience, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midoriku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan. tkishimo@bio.titech.ac.jp
Biology of the Cell
|June 9, 2004
Abstract:
During the meiotic cycles in starfish oocytes, MAP kinase (MAPK) is involved in the meta-I arrest, the meiosis I to II transition, and the arrest at pronucleus stage (G1 and/or G2 phase). The eventual fate, either development or death, of mature eggs is also under the control of MAPK. Starfish oocytes are thus a useful model system to study multiple functions of skillful MAPK.

