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a Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
ABSTRACT
In the present study, the sequential expression and cellular localization of cyclin B1 was examined in two-cell mouse embryos to elucidate the mechanism of the two-cell block. One-cell embryos derived from in vitro fertilization were cultured with oviductal tissue (nonblocking condition) or without oviductal tissue (blocking condition) to establish the experimental conditions in which the embryos either overcome the two-cell block or do not. The amount of cyclin B1 gradually increased through the second cell cycle (through S to G2 phase). However, the difference was not observed between culture conditions. This showed that even embryos exhibiting the two-cell block normally synthesize cyclin B1 through the cell cycle. Cyclin B1 in embryos cultured under nonblocking condition accumulates in the nucleus during the transition from the G2 to the M phase, whereas that in embryos cultured in blocking condition localizes in the cytoplasm throughout the cell cycle. These data indicate that two-cell embryos cultured in blocking condition are able to normally synthesize cyclin B1 but have defects in nuclear accumulation of the protein. However, when two-cell blocked embryos were treated with okadaic acid, an activator of Cdc2 kinase, part of cyclin B1 in the embryos translocated into the nucleus. Moreover, treatment with butyrolactone I, a specific inhibitor of Cdc2 kinase, inhibits nuclear translocation of cyclin B1 in those embryos. These results suggest that Cdc2 kinase regulates the nuclear accumulation of cyclin B1 in mouse two-cell embryos.
First decision: 26 March 2001.
1 Part of this work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (no. 10660270 to N.M.) and a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JPS-RFTF 97L00905 to N.M.).
2 Correspondence. FAX: 81 75 753 6329; naojiro{at}kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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