title: Changes in the activity of type 2A protein phosphatases during meiotic maturation and the first mitotic cell cycle in mouse oocytes.
abstract: We have established an assay to measure protein phosphatase activity in mouse oocytes using [32P]-radiolabeled phosphorylase a as the substrate. Removal of the radiolabel from the substrate in vitro was linear with time and could be inhibited totally by the addition of okadaic acid (inhibitor of type 1 and type 2 protein phosphatases), or partially by protein inhibitor 2 (inhibitor of type 1 protein phosphatases). We performed a detailed study of the activity of type 2A protein phosphatases in mouse oocytes undergoing meiotic maturation and after parthenogenetic activation of mature oocytes arrested in metaphase II. Significant changes in the activity of type 2A protein phosphatases were observed during the first meiotic and the first mitotic cell cycles. These alterations in type 2A protein phosphatase activity occurred in the absence of changes in the quantity of the catalytic sub-unit and can be correlated with changes in the activity of protein kinases and rearrangement of the cellular cytoskeleton. Our observations support a role for type 2A protein phosphatases in cell cycle regulation and demonstrate that, like the protein kinases, the type 2A phosphatases also undergo changes in their activity during early mammalian development.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Développement, UMR 7622, CNRS, Université Paris 6, France.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Winston
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Maro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D016922:Cellular Senescence / Q000502:physiology*; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D008540:Meiosis / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D009865:Oocytes / Q000201:enzymology*; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases