Publication Date:
1998-10-17
Description:
13S condensin is a multisubunit protein complex essential for mitotic chromosome condensation in Xenopus egg extracts. Purified 13S condensin introduces positive supercoils into DNA in the presence of topoisomerase I and adenosine triphosphate in vitro. The supercoiling activity of 13Scondensin was regulated by mitosis-specific phosphorylation. Immunodepletion, in vitro phosphorylation, and peptide-mapping experiments indicated that Cdc2 is likely to be the kinase that phosphorylates and activates 13S condensin. Multiple Cdc2 phosphorylation sites are clustered in the carboxyl-terminal domain of the XCAP-D2 (Xenopus chromosome-associated polypeptide D2) subunit. These results suggest that phosphorylation of 13Scondensin by Cdc2 may trigger mitotic chromosome condensation in vitro.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kimura, K -- Hirano, M -- Kobayashi, R -- Hirano, T -- CA45508/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM53926/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 16;282(5388):487-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Post Office Box 100, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9774278" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenosine Triphosphatases/chemistry/*metabolism
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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CDC2 Protein Kinase/*metabolism
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Chromosomes/chemistry/*metabolism
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DNA, Circular/chemistry/metabolism
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DNA, Superhelical/*chemistry
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DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism
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Enzyme Activation
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Interphase
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*Mitosis
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Multiprotein Complexes
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Peptide Mapping
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Phosphorylation
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Xenopus
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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