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Inhibitor-2 induced M-phase arrest in Xenopus cycling egg extracts is dependent on MAPK activation

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Title
Inhibitor-2 induced M-phase arrest in Xenopus cycling egg extracts is dependent on MAPK activation
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Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters, September 2011
DOI 10.2478/s11658-011-0030-z
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Arian Khandani, Mahmood Mohtashami, Anne Camirand

Abstract

The evolutionarily-conserved protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) plays a central role in dephosphorylation of phosphoproteins during the M phase of the cell cycle. We demonstrate here that the PP1 inhibitor inhibitor-2 protein (Inh-2) induces an M-phase arrest in Xenopus cycling egg extracts. Interestingly, the characteristics of this M-phase arrest are similar to those of mitogen-activated protein kinase (p42MAPK)-induced M-phase arrest. This prompted us to investigate whether Inh-2-induced M-phase arrest was dependent on activation of the p42MAPK pathway. We demonstrate here that MAPK activity is required for Inh-2-induced M-phase arrest, as inhibition of MAPK by PD98059 allowed cycling extracts to exit M phase, despite the presence of Inh-2. We next investigated whether Inh-2 phosphorylation by the MAPK pathway was required to induce an M-phase arrest. We discovered that while p90Rsk (a MAPK protein required for M-phase arrest) is able to phosphorylate Inh-2, this phosphorylation is not required for Inh-2 function. Overall, our results suggest a novel mechanism linking p42MAPK and PP1 pathways during M phase of the cell cycle.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 46%
Researcher 2 15%
Professor 1 8%
Librarian 1 8%
Student > Postgraduate 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 46%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 23%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 8%
Computer Science 1 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 8%
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