Publication Date:
2010-12-18
Description:
Initiation and maintenance of mitosis require the activation of protein kinase cyclin B-Cdc2 and the inhibition of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), which, respectively, phosphorylate and dephosphorylate mitotic substrates. The protein kinase Greatwall (Gwl) is required to maintain mitosis through PP2A inhibition. We describe how Gwl activation results in PP2A inhibition. We identified cyclic adenosine monophosphate-regulated phosphoprotein 19 (Arpp19) and alpha-Endosulfine as two substrates of Gwl that, when phosphorylated by this kinase, associate with and inhibit PP2A, thus promoting mitotic entry. Conversely, in the absence of Gwl activity, Arpp19 and alpha-Endosulfine are dephosphorylated and lose their capacity to bind and inhibit PP2A. Although both proteins can inhibit PP2A, endogenous Arpp19, but not alpha-Endosulfine, is responsible for PP2A inhibition at mitotic entry in Xenopus egg extracts.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gharbi-Ayachi, Aicha -- Labbe, Jean-Claude -- Burgess, Andrew -- Vigneron, Suzanne -- Strub, Jean-Marc -- Brioudes, Estelle -- Van-Dorsselaer, Alain -- Castro, Anna -- Lorca, Thierry -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Dec 17;330(6011):1673-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1197048.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Universites Montpellier 2 et 1, Centre de Recherche de Biochimie Macromoleculaire, CNRS UMR 5237, IFR 122, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21164014" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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HeLa Cells
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Humans
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Interphase
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*Mitosis
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Oocytes
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Peptides/chemistry/*metabolism
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Phosphoproteins/chemistry/*metabolism
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Phosphorylation
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Protein Binding
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Protein Phosphatase 2/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism
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Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism
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Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mos/metabolism
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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Xenopus Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism
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Xenopus laevis
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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