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PMID:16107480
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Jin, Z, Homola, EM, Goldbach, P, Choi, Y, Brill, JA and Campbell, SD (2005) Drosophila Myt1 is a Cdk1 inhibitory kinase that regulates multiple aspects of cell cycle behavior during gametogenesis. Development 132:4075-85 |
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| Abstract |
The metazoan Wee1-like kinases Wee1 and Myt1 regulate the essential mitotic regulator Cdk1 by inhibitory phosphorylation. This regulatory mechanism, which prevents Cdk1 from triggering premature mitotic events, is also induced during the DNA damage response and used to coordinate cell proliferation with crucial developmental events. Despite the previously demonstrated role for Myt1 regulation of Cdk1 during meiosis, relatively little is known of how Myt1 functions at other developmental stages. To address this issue, we have undertaken a functional analysis of Drosophila Myt1 that has revealed novel developmental roles for this conserved cell cycle regulator during gametogenesis. Notably, more proliferating cells were observed in myt1 mutant testes and ovaries than controls. This can partly be attributed to ectopic division of germline-associated somatic cells in myt1 mutants, suggesting that Myt1 serves a role in regulating exit from the cell cycle. Moreover, mitotic index measurements suggested that germline stem cells proliferate more rapidly, in myt1 mutant females. In addition, male myt1 germline cells occasionally undergo an extra mitotic division, resulting in meiotic cysts with twice the normal numbers of cells. Based on these observations, we propose that Myt1 serves unique Cdk1 regulatory functions required for efficient coupling of cell differentiation with cell cycle progression. |
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PubMed Online version:10.1242/dev.01965 |
| Keywords |
Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; CDC2 Protein Kinase/metabolism; Cell Cycle/physiology; Cell Proliferation; Drosophila/genetics; Drosophila/physiology; Drosophila Proteins/genetics; Drosophila Proteins/metabolism; Female; Gametogenesis/physiology; Male; Microscopy, Fluorescence; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation/genetics; Phenotype; Phosphorylation; Protein Kinases/genetics; Protein Kinases/metabolism; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, DNA |
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