The First Green Lineage cdc25 Dual-Specificity Phosphatase

Autor: Evelyne Derelle, B. Khadaroo, Conchita Ferraz, André Picard, S. Eychenié, Richard G. Cooke, Steven Robbens, G. Peaucellier, Michel Delseny, Hervé Moreau, Y. Van de Peer, Jacques G. Demaille
Přispěvatelé: Biologie intégrative des organismes marins (BIOM), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Cell Cycle
Cell Cycle, Taylor & Francis, 2004, 3 (4), pp.511-516. ⟨10.4161/cc.3.4.815⟩
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ISSN: 1538-4101
1551-4005
DOI: 10.4161/cc.3.4.815⟩
Popis: The Cdc25 protein phosphatase is a key enzyme involved in the regulation of the G(2)/M transition in metazoans and yeast. However, no Cdc25 ortholog has so far been identified in plants, although functional studies have shown that an activating dephosphorylation of the CDK-cyclin complex regulates the G(2)/M transition. In this paper, the first green lineage Cdc25 ortholog is described in the unicellular alga Ostreococcus tauri. It encodes a protein which is able to rescue the yeast S. pombe cdc25-22 conditional mutant. Furthermore, microinjection of GST-tagged O. tauri Cdc25 specifically activates prophase-arrested starfish oocytes. In vitro histone H1 kinase assays and anti-phosphotyrosine Western Blotting confirmed the in vivo activating dephosphorylation of starfish CDK1-cyclinB by recombinant O. tauri Cdc25. We propose that there has been coevolution of the regulatory proteins involved in the control of M-phase entry in the metazoan, yeast and green lineages.
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