ECB-ART-37286
Dev Biol
1999 Oct 01;2141:1-8. doi: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9393.
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Activation of MPF at meiosis reinitiation in starfish oocytes.
Abstract
Although maturation or M-phase-promoting factor (MPF) was originally identified as a cytoplasmic activity responsible for induction of maturation or meiosis reinitiation in oocytes, MPF is now thought to be the universal trigger of G2/M-phase transition in all eukaryotic cells, and its activity is ascribed to cyclin B. Cdc2 kinase. Here, the activation process of cyclin B. Cdc2 at meiosis reinitiation in starfish oocytes is compared with that at G2/M-phase transition in mitotic somatic cells. Based on this comparison, the role of cyclin B. Cdc2 in the original cytoplasmic MPF activity is reexamined.
PubMed ID: 10491252
Article link: Dev Biol