Protein phosphatase-1 is involved in Xenopus oocyte maturation (original) (raw)

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Two key steps in meiotic maturation of the Xenopus oocyte involve protein phosphorylation–dephosphorylation1. A burst of cyclic AMP-independent phosphorylation occurs at the time of the breakdown of the nuclear envelope, whether maturation is triggered by progesterone, by the inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKI)2 or by the maturation promoting factor (MPF)1,3. Also, an in ovo decrease in the level of the free catalytic (C) subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, induced by microinjection of pure PKI4, initiates meiotic maturation1,2,4. This suggests that MPF appears only after dephosphorylation of a phosphorylated maturation protein Mp-P4. We now show, by microinjection of pure inhibitor-1 of protein phosphatase-15, which blocks progesterone- and PKI-induced maturation but not the MPF-induced one, that protein phosphatase-1 catalyses the dephosphorylation of Mp-P.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Reproduction, Groupe Stéroides, ERA CNRS 964, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75230, Paris, Cédex 05, France
    Denise Huchon & René Ozon
  2. Centre de Recherches de Biochimie Macromoléculaire du CNRS, Faculté de Médecine and U-249 INSERM Biochimie des Régulations des Systèmes Contractiles, BP 5015, 34033, Montpellier, France
    Jacques G. Demaille

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  1. Denise Huchon
  2. René Ozon
  3. Jacques G. Demaille

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Huchon, D., Ozon, R. & Demaille, J. Protein phosphatase-1 is involved in Xenopus oocyte maturation.Nature 294, 358–359 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/294358a0

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