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Study of the DNA Damage Checkpoint using Xenopus Egg Extracts
Published on: November 5, 2012
クセノプスの卵抽出物におけるMAPキナーゼ依存型スパインドルアセンブリチェックポイント
1Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0444.
Cell
|November 4, 1994
まとめ
クセノプスの卵エキスは通常,細胞サイクルチェックポイントが欠けています. しかし,高精子濃度では,マイクロチューブルを脱ポリマー化することによってミトシス停止を誘導し,ミトゲン活性化タンパク質 (MAP) キナーゼ活性を必要とします.
科学分野:
- 細胞生物学 細胞生物学
- 分子生物学は分子生物学である.
- 発達生物学 発達生物学について
背景:
- 初期のXenopus胚と卵抽出物は,通常,アナフェーズ促進複合体/サイクロソーム (APC/C) チェックポイントが欠けています.
- このチェックポイントは,通常,スピンドルの組立が完了するまで,アナフェーズへの入りを防ぐ.
研究 の 目的:
- 特定の条件下でXenopusの卵抽出物におけるミトス停止のメカニズムを調査する.
- これらの抽出物における細胞循環の調節におけるミトゲン活性化タンパク質 (MAP) キナーゼの役割を決定する.
主な方法:
- 高密度の精子核を持つXenopus卵のエキスを利用して,マイクロチューブルのデポリメリゼーションを誘発する.
- 熟成促進因子 (MPF) の活性,サイクリンBの分解,ERK2/MAPキナーゼの活性化を測定することによって,ミトスの停止を評価する.
- MAPキナーゼ特異のフォスファタゼMKP-1を用いて,MAPキナーゼ活性化の必要性を探求する.
主要な成果:
- 高い精子密度はマイクロチューブルの脱ポリメリゼーションを引き起こし,ミトーシス中の抽出物を止めました.
- アレストされた抽出物は,高いMPF活性を示し,サイクリンBの分解が失敗し,活性化されたERK2/MAPキナーゼを示した.
- MKP-1を添加すると,ミトーシス停止が逆転し,MAPキナーゼがMAPキナーゼの確立と維持に不可欠であることを示す.
結論:
- Xenopusの卵抽出物におけるミトスの停止は,高精子密度でのスパインドルの脱ポリメリゼーションによって誘発され得る.
- 活性化されたMAPキナーゼシグナル伝達は,この特定のミトーシス停止の開始と維持の両方に不可欠です.
- カルシウムは通常,ミオティックアストを放出しますが,このスパインドルデポリメリゼーション誘発のミオティックアストには影響しません.
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