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Activation of p90rsk during meiotic maturation and first mitosis in mouse oocytes and eggs: MAP kinase-independent and -dependent activation

P Kalab, JZ Kubiak, MH Verlhac, WH Colledge and B Maro
Departement de Biologie du Developpement, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, Paris, France.

Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) become activated during the meiotic maturation of oocytes from many species; however, their molecular targets remain unknown. This led us to characterize the activation of the ribosomal subunit S6 kinase of Mr 82 X 10(3) - 92 X 10(3) (p90rsk; a major substrate of MAPK in somatic cells) in maturing mouse oocytes and during the first cell cycle of the mouse embryo. We assessed the phosphorylation state of p90rsk by examining the electrophoretic mobility shifts on immunoblots and measured the kinase activity of immunoprecipitated p90rsk on a S6-derived peptide. Germinal vesicle stage (GV) oocytes contained a doublet of Mr 82 x 10(3) and 84 x 10(3) with a low S6 peptide kinase activity (12% of the maximum level found in metaphase II oocytes). A band of Mr 86 x 10(3) was first observed 30 minutes after GV breakdown (GVBD) and became prominent within 2 to 3 hours. MAPK was not phosphorylated 1 hour after GVBD, when the p90rsk-specific S6 kinase activity reached 37 % of the M II level. 2 hours after GVBD, MAPK became phosphorylated and p90rsk kinase activity reached 86% of the maximum level. The p90rsk band of Mr 88 x 10(3), present in mature M II oocytes when S6 peptide kinase activity is maximum, appeared when MAPK phosphorylation was nearly complete (2.5 hours after GVBD). In activated eggs, the dephosphorylation of p90rsk to Mr 86 X 10(3) starts about 1 hour after the onset of pronuclei formation and continues very slowly until the beginning of mitosis, when the doublet of Mr 82 X 10(3) and 84 X 10(3) reappears. A role for a M-phase activated kinase (like p34cdc2) in p90rsk activation was suggested by the reappearance of the Mr 86 X 10(3) band during first mitosis and in 1-cell embryos arrested in M phase by nocodazole. The requirement of MAPK for the full activation of p90rsk during meiosis was demonstrated by the absence of the fully active Mr 88 X 10(3) band in maturing c-mos -/- oocytes, where MAPK is not activated. The inhibition of kinase activity in activated eggs by 6-DMAP after second polar body extrusion provided evidence that both MAPK- and p90rsk-specific phosphatases are activated at approximately the same time prior to pronuclei formation.

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