title: Nuclear translocation of mouse polycomb m33 protein in regenerating liver.
abstract: Immunoblots probed with an antibody to M33 protein, a homolog of Drosophila Polycomb, revealed that most M33 in adult mouse liver had a higher electrophoretic mobility than that in F9 embryonal carcinoma cells. High-mobility 60-kDa M33 localized in the cytoplasmic fraction of liver homogenates, and two less abundant 66- and 70-kDa species were detected in the nuclear fraction. Immunocytochemistry of freeze-substituted tissues showed a punctate pattern of immunofluorescence in the cytoplasm of hepatic parenchymal cells. Nuclear M33 isoforms treated with alkaline phosphatase had increased mobilities corresponding to cytoplasmic M33. In partially hepatectomized mice, nuclear M33 isoforms appeared after 48 h, near the time of maximum DNA synthesis as measured by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation. By 60 h, most M33 was in the form of these low-mobility species, and the pattern of immunofluorescence suggested the existence of chromatin-bound and free states of the protein in the nucleus. Thereafter, high-mobility 60-kDa M33 reappeared. The data are consistent with a phosphorylation-associated translocation mechanism that is a cell cycle-dependent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, School of Education, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan.
authors.forename: Kousei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shiurba
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Higashinakagawa
mesh_terms: D021581:Active Transport, Cell Nucleus; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000737:chemistry; D015151:Immunoblotting; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D008115:Liver Regeneration; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D010766:Phosphorylation; D063150:Polycomb Repressive Complex 1; D063146:Polycomb-Group Proteins; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000032:analysis; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: C570426:Cbx2 protein, mouse; D063146:Polycomb-Group Proteins; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D063150:Polycomb Repressive Complex 1; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase