title: Effects of protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors on egg activation and fertilization-dependent protein tyrosine kinase activity.
abstract: Fertilization results in the activation of protein tyrosine kinases within minutes of sperm-egg binding, although the role of the kinase(s) involved is not clear. In the present study, we have treated sea urchin eggs with genistein, as well as other protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and have characterized the subsequent effect on fertilization and egg activation. Genistein treatment of sea urchin eggs inhibits the overall fertilization-dependent tyrosine kinase activity as well as the specific phosphorylation of a 350-kDa protein, but it did not inhibit cAMP-dependent kinase and had little effect on protein kinase C at concentrations less than 100 microM. Genistein, erbstatin, and tyrphostin B42 did not inhibit the early events of fertilization such as elevation of the fertilization envelope; however, later events such as pronuclear migration, DNA synthesis, and cell division were inhibited. These results suggest that protein tyrosine kinases activated following fertilization play a role in the later events of egg activation such as the initiation of pronuclear movement and entry into the S phase of the cell cycle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66160.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Kinsey
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects; D004261:DNA Replication / Q000187:drug effects; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D005306:Fertilization / Q000187:drug effects*; D019833:Genistein; D007529:Isoflavones / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010063:Ovum / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000502:physiology; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism; D012617:Sea Urchins
chemical_list: D007529:Isoflavones; D019833:Genistein; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases