scholarly journals MAP kinase dependent cyclinE/cdk2 activity promotes DNA replication in early sea urchin embryos

2009 ◽  
Vol 334 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kisielewska ◽  
R. Philipova ◽  
J.-Y. Huang ◽  
M. Whitaker
2002 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Schnackenberg ◽  
William F. Marzluff

In somatic cells, cyclin E-cdk2 activity oscillates during the cell cycle and is required for the regulation of the G1/S transition. Cyclin E and its associated kinase activity remain constant throughout early sea urchin embryogenesis, consistent with reports from studies using several other embryonic systems. Here we have expanded these studies and show that cyclin E rapidly and selectively enters the sperm head after fertilization and remains concentrated in the male pronucleus until pronuclear fusion, at which time it disperses throughout the zygotic nucleus. We also show that cyclin E is not concentrated at the centrosomes but is associated with condensed chromosomes throughout mitosis for at least the first four cell cycles. Isolated mitotic spindles are enriched for cyclin E and cdk2, which are localized to the chromosomes. The chromosomal cyclin E is associated with active kinase during mitosis. We propose that cyclin E may play a role in the remodeling of the sperm head and re-licensing of the paternal genome after fertilization. Furthermore, cyclin E does not need to be degraded or dissociated from the chromosomes during mitosis; instead, it may be required on chromosomes during mitosis to immediately initiate the next round of DNA replication.


1979 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susumu Ikegami ◽  
Shonan Amemiya ◽  
Mieko Oguro ◽  
Hiroshi Nagano ◽  
Yoshitake Mano

1998 ◽  
Vol 200 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Moreau ◽  
François Marques ◽  
Abdelhamid Barakat ◽  
Philippe Schatt ◽  
Jean-Claude Lozano ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 204 (2) ◽  
pp. 693-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Concha ◽  
Antonia Monardes ◽  
Yasmine Even ◽  
Violeta Morin ◽  
Marcia Puchi ◽  
...  

1972 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian L. Kotzin ◽  
Robert F. Baker

Experimental evidence suggests that exposure of sea urchin gastrulae to 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BUdR), an analog of thymidine, causes a reduction in the rate of synthesis of some RNA species usually transcribed at this stage of development. In pulse-chase experiments, 3H (in gastrula stage 8–15S nuclear DNA labeled with BUdR-3H) could not be chased, with unlabeled BUdR, into 20–60S size-range DNA; in similar experiments in which gastrulae were pulsed with thymidine-3H and then chased with unlabeled thymidine, 3H in 8–15S nuclear DNA could be extensively chased into 20–60S DNA. DNA-RNA hybridization assays indicate that gastrula stage nuclear DNA in the range of 20–60S has greater sequence homology for gastrula stage RNA-3H than does nuclear DNA of similar size-range taken from gastrulae exposed to BUdR for 1 hr. An explanation is offered for the effect of BUdR on transcription and DNA replication in sea urchin embryos.


genesis ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 282-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Schnackenberg ◽  
Robert E. Palazzo ◽  
William F. Marzluff

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiraku Shimada ◽  
Hiroshi Terayama

2005 ◽  
Vol 280 (26) ◽  
pp. 24957-24967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rada Philipova ◽  
Mark G. Larman ◽  
Calum P. Leckie ◽  
Patrick K. Harrison ◽  
Laurence Groigno ◽  
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