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Cyclin D2 ArrestsXenopusEarly Embryonic Cell Cycles

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Xenopus cyclin D2 mRNA is a member of the class of maternal RNAs. It is rare and stable during early embryonic development. To investigate the potential role of cyclin D2 during early embryonic cell cycles, cyclin D2 was injected into one blastomere of a two-cell embryo. This injection induced a cell cycle arrest in the injected blastomere. To analyze more precisely the mechanism of this arrest, we took advantage of cycling egg extracts that recapitulate major events of the cell cycle when supplemented with demembranated sperm heads. When Xenopus cyclin D2 is added to egg extracts, the first round of DNA replication occurs as in control extracts. However, Xenopus cyclin D2 blocks subsequent rounds of DNA replication and the oscillations of histone H1 kinase activity associated with cdc2 kinase, indicating that the cell cycle is arrested after the first S-phase. The block induced by Xenopus cyclin D2 is not due to a lack of the mitotic cyclin B2 that accumulates normally. Radiolabeled Xenopus cyclin D2 enters nuclei after completion of the first S-phase and remains stable over the entire period of the arrest. These features suggest that Xenopus cyclin D2 could play an original role during early development, controlling the G2-phase and/or the G2/M transition.

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hal-02143983 , version 1 (29-05-2019)

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Frederic Taieb, Stéphane Chevalier, Isabelle Chartrain, Olivier Haccard, Catherine Jessus. Cyclin D2 ArrestsXenopusEarly Embryonic Cell Cycles. Experimental Cell Research, 1997, 237 (2), pp.338-346. ⟨10.1006/excr.1997.3800⟩. ⟨hal-02143983⟩
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