Arrest of cell cycle progression during first interphase in murine zygotes microinjected with anti-PCM-1 antibodies.
To investigate the function of the centrosome protein PCM-1, antibodies against PCM-1 were microinjected into either germinal vesicle stage meiotic oocytes or fertilized mouse eggs, and cell cycle progression events (i.e., microtubule assembly, chromosome and centrosome organization, meiotic maturation) were assayed. These studies determined that microinjected PCM-1 antibodies arrested cell cycle progression, with anti-PCM-1 arresting fertilized eggs at the pronucleate stage when injected during G1. Analysis of the injected eggs determined that centrosome disruption and microtubule cytaster disorganization accompanied the cell cycle arrest. Anti-PCM-1 blocked neither pronuclear centration, completion of mitosis when microinjected into zygotes at G2, nor meiotic maturation when microinjected into immature oocytes. These results identify a novel role for PCM- 1 in cell cycle regulation, and indicate that PCM-1 must fulfill an essential function for cells to complete interphase.
The Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, The University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA. balczonr@sungcg.usouthal.edu
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D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D001324:Autoantigens / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000502:physiology*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D018385:Centrosome / Q000378:metabolism; D004261:DNA Replication; D005260:Female; D007399:Interphase; D008297:Male; D008540:Meiosis; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D008938:Mitosis; D009865:Oocytes / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D015053:Zygote
D000906:Antibodies; D001324:Autoantigens; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; C490114:Pcm1 protein, mouse