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Article Dans Une Revue Development (Cambridge, England) Année : 2013

Release from meiotic arrest in ascidian eggs requires the activity of two phosphatases but not CaMKII

Mark Levasseur
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Remi Dumollard
Celine Hebras
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Maureen Sinclair
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Michael Whitaker
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Alex Mcdougall

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The fertilising sperm triggers a transient Ca2+ increase that releases eggs from cell cycle arrest in the vast majority of animal eggs. In vertebrate eggs, Erp1, an APC/C-cdc20 inhibitor, links release from metaphase II arrest with the Ca2+ transient and its degradation is triggered by the Ca2+-induced activation of CaMKII. By contrast, many invertebrate groups have mature eggs that arrest at metaphase I, and these species do not possess the CaMKII target Erp1 in their genomes. As a consequence, it is unknown exactly how cell cycle arrest at metaphase I is achieved and how the fertilisation Ca2+ transient overcomes the arrest in the vast majority of animal species. Using live-cell imaging with a novel cyclin reporter to study cell cycle arrest and its release in urochordate ascidians, the closest living invertebrate group to the vertebrates, we have identified a new signalling pathway for cell cycle resumption in which CaMKII plays no part. Instead, we find that the Ca2+-activated phosphatase calcineurin (CN) is required for egg activation. Moreover, we demonstrate that parthenogenetic activation of metaphase I-arrested eggs by MEK inhibition, independent of a Ca2+ increase, requires the activity of a second egg phosphatase: PP2A. Furthermore, PP2A activity, together with CN, is required for normal egg activation during fertilisation. As ascidians are a sister group of the vertebrates, we discuss these findings in relation to cell cycle arrest and egg activation in chordates.

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hal-01539618 , version 1 (15-06-2017)

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Mark Levasseur, Remi Dumollard, Jean-Philippe Chambon, Celine Hebras, Maureen Sinclair, et al.. Release from meiotic arrest in ascidian eggs requires the activity of two phosphatases but not CaMKII. Development (Cambridge, England), 2013, 140 (22), pp.4583-4593. ⟨10.1242/dev.096578⟩. ⟨hal-01539618⟩
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