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Intracellular and extracellular pH and Ca are bound to control mitosis in the early sea urchin embryo via ERK and MPF activities. PLoS One 2013; 8:e66113. [PMID: 23785474 PMCID: PMC3681939 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2013] [Accepted: 05/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Studies aiming to predict the impact on marine life of ocean acidification and of altered salinity have shown altered development in various species including sea urchins. We have analyzed how external Na, Ca, pH and bicarbonate control the first mitotic divisions of sea urchin embryos. Intracellular free Ca (Cai) and pH (pHi) and the activities of the MAP kinase ERK and of MPF regulate mitosis in various types of cells including oocytes and early embryos. We found that intracellular acidification of fertilized eggs by Na-acetate induces a huge activation of ERK at time of mitosis. This also stops the cell cycle and leads to cell death, which can be bypassed by treatment with the MEK inhibitor U0126. Similar intracellular acidification induced in external medium containing low sodium or 5-(N-Methyl-N-isobutyl) amiloride, an inhibitor of the Na+/H+ exchanger, also stops the cell cycle and leads to cell death. In that case, an increase in Cai and in the phosphorylation of tyr-cdc2 occurs during mitosis, modifications that depend on external Ca. Our results indicate that the levels of pHi and Cai determine accurate levels of Ptyr-Cdc2 and P-ERK capable of ensuring progression through the first mitotic cycles. These intracellular parameters rely on external Ca, Na and bicarbonate, alterations of which during climate changes could act synergistically to perturb the early marine life.
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Petzelt C, Hafner M. Visualization of the Ca-transport system of the mitotic apparatus of sea urchin eggs with a monoclonal antibody. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 83:1719-22. [PMID: 16593667 PMCID: PMC323155 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.6.1719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Monoclonal antibodies have been obtained to components of Ca(2+)-sequestering vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum of HeLa cells by isolating hybridomas that were generated by the in vitro immunization of lymphocytes followed by fusion with plasmocytoma cells. One of these monoclonal antibodies specifically labels punctate structures which appear in the mitotic apparatus of sea urchin eggs at the beginning of prophase and disappear upon the completion of cytokinesis. The antibody inhibits the Ca(2+) uptake of the membrane system in vitro. It reacts with one 46-kDa protein out of the complex protein mixture from the membrane fraction. We take all this as evidence that in fact a specific Ca(2+)-transport system is part of the mitotic apparatus, that such a system is very conserved, and that it is most probably derived from the endoplasmic reticulum.
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- C Petzelt
- Institute of Cell and Tumor Biology, German Cancer Research Center, P. O. Box 101949, D-6900 Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Electroporation of Cell Membranes: The Fundamental Effects of Pulsed Electric Fields in Food Processing. FOOD ENGINEERING REVIEWS 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s12393-010-9023-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Jones KT, Swann K. Composition of sea urchin egg homogenate determines its potency to inositol trisphosphate and cyclic ADPRibose-induced Ca2+ release. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 360:815-20. [PMID: 17624299 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.06.134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2007] [Accepted: 06/26/2007] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Of the three intracellular Ca2+ signalling molecules (InsP3, cADPR and NAADP) sea urchin egg homogenate has been used in the identification and characterisation of two, cADPR and NAADP. Homogenate is prepared in a Na+/Cl- substitute of N-Methyl glucamine (NMG)/gluconate. To determine how media composition affects Ca2+ release we replaced NMG with various sugars or glycine and found a dramatic improvement in InsP3 mediated Ca2+ release. Conversely the response to cADPR was diminished, whilst NAADP was unaffected. Therefore modifying media composition may be an important consideration in using homogenate to study Ca2+ release for future studies.
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- Keith T Jones
- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Framlington Place, University of Newcastle, Newcastle NE2 4HH, UK.
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A transient increase in intracellular calcium concentration [Ca2+]i occurs throughout the cell as sea urchin embryos enter anaphase of the first cell cycle. The transient just precedes chromatid disjunction and spindle elongation. Microinjection of calcium chelators or heparin, an InsP3 receptor antagonist, blocks chromosome separation. Photorelease of calcium or InsP3 can reverse the block. Nuclear reformation is merely delayed by calcium antagonists at concentrations that block chromatid separation. Thus, the calcium signal triggers the separation of chromatids, while calcium-independent pathways can bring about the alterations in microtubule dynamics and nuclear events associated with anaphase progression. That calcium triggers chromosome disjunction alone is unexpected. It helps explain previous conflicting results and allows the prediction that calcium plays a similar role at anaphase in other cell types.
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- L Groigno
- Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Medical School, United Kingdom
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Suprynowicz FA, Prusmack C, Whalley T. Ca2+ triggers premature inactivation of the cdc2 protein kinase in permeabilized sea urchin embryos. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:6176-80. [PMID: 8016134 PMCID: PMC44161 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.13.6176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Exit from mitosis requires inactivation of the cyclin B-p34cdc2 protein kinase complex. Since increased cytosolic Ca2+ has been implicated as a potential trigger of mitotic progression, we directly tested the possibility that Ca2+ triggers the pathway responsible for inactivating the cdc2 kinase, using sea urchin embryos permeabilized at various stages of the cell cycle. In cells permeabilized during late interphase and prophase, micromolar Ca2+ induced premature inactivation of the cdc2 kinase without affecting the absolute amount of p34cdc2 protein. Inactivation was selective for the cdc2 kinase, as elevated Ca2+ had no effect on cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity. Premature cdc2 kinase inactivation did not require cyclin B destruction, but did coincide with the dissociation of cyclin B-p34cdc2 complexes. In cells permeabilized during prometaphase and metaphase, cdc2 kinase inactivation was Ca(2+)-independent, presumably because at these later times the inactivating pathway had been enabled prior to permeabilization. This work provides evidence that Ca2+ is the physiological trigger enabling cdc2 kinase inactivation during mitosis.
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- F A Suprynowicz
- Laboratory of Theoretical and Physical Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Prausnitz MR, Milano CD, Gimm JA, Langer R, Weaver JC. Quantitative study of molecular transport due to electroporation: uptake of bovine serum albumin by erythrocyte ghosts. Biophys J 1994; 66:1522-30. [PMID: 8061201 PMCID: PMC1275872 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(94)80943-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Electroporation is believed to involve the creation of aqueous pathways in lipid bilayer membranes by transient elevation of the transmembrane voltage to approximately 1 V. Here, results are presented for a quantitative study of the number of bovine serum albumin (BSA) molecules transported into erythrocyte ghosts caused by electroportion. 1) Uptake of BSA was found to plateau at high field strength. However, this was not necessarily an absolute maximum in transport. Instead, it represented the maximum effect of increasing field strength for a particular pulse protocol. 2) Maximum uptake under any conditions used in this study corresponded to approximately one-fourth of apparent equilibrium with the external solution. 3) Multiple and longer pulses each increased uptake of BSA, where the total time integral of field strength correlated with uptake, independent of inter-pulse spacing. 4) Pre-pulse adsorption of BSA to ghost membranes appears to have increased transport. 5) Most transport of BSA probably occurred by electrically driven transport during pulses; post-pulse uptake occurred, but to a much lesser extent. Finally, approaches to increasing transport are discussed.
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- M R Prausnitz
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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Duesbery NS, Masui Y. Changes in protein association with intracellular membranes of Xenopus laevis oocytes during maturation and activation. ZYGOTE 1993; 1:129-41. [PMID: 8081809 DOI: 10.1017/s0967199400001398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Intracellular membranes isolated from fully grown immature oocytes, mature oocytes (eggs) and activated eggs of Xenopus laevis were fractionated through a discontinuous sucrose density gradient into light, intermediate and heavy fractions. Electron microscopy showed that the light and intermediate fractions consisted mainly of smooth membranes, while the heavy fraction consisted mainly of rough membranes and mitochondria. Variations in the proteins associate with samples taken at different stages were observed by SDS-PAGE. The following differences were consistently observed: a 200 kDa protein was present only in the intermediate fraction of activated eggs, 29 and 44 kDa proteins were present only in the intermediate fractions of immature oocytes and activated eggs, and 120 and 145 kDa proteins were present only in the heavy fractions of mature oocytes and activated eggs. Examination of Western blots showed that cyclins A and B2 did not associate with membrane fractions at any stage of meiosis. Instead, cyclin A was present in the cytosols of mature oocytes and cyclin B2 was present in the cytosols of immature and mature oocytes. c-mos protein was detected in the cytosols and occasionally in the light fractions of mature oocytes and activated eggs. While alpha- and beta-tubulins were detected in the light and intermediate fractions at all the stages of meiosis examined, only beta-tubulin was present in the heavy fraction. beta-tubulin present in the heavy fraction was detected only at interphase, i.e. in immature oocytes and activated eggs, and not in mature oocytes. Using immunogold labelling we confirmed these results and found evidence to suggest that beta-tubulin associates with the rough endoplasmic reticulum of interphase cells by a linking protein.
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- N S Duesbery
- Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Canada
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Maekawa S, Toriyama M, Sakai H. A novel 24-kDa microtubule-associated protein purified from sea urchin eggs. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992; 205:1195-200. [PMID: 1349526 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16890.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chromatographic fractionation of a crude extract of sea urchin eggs on a hydrophobic column enabled us to find a new 24-kDa microtubule-associated protein (SU-MAP24) that bound tightly to the column and was eluted under alkaline conditions. Biochemical studies using the purified protein showed its direct binding to microtubules reconstituted from tubulin purified from starfish sperm outer fibers. SU-MAP24 promoted tubulin polymerization in a dose-dependent manner. Immunoblotting analysis showed that SU-MAP24 is present in a microtubule protein fraction obtained from a crude extract using taxol, and immunostaining of paraffin-sectioned metaphase eggs showed its localization in the mitotic apparatus. These results show that SU-MAP24 is a newly identified microtubule-associated protein.
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- S Maekawa
- Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Epel D. The initiation of development at fertilization. CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS 1990; 29:1-12. [PMID: 2154300 DOI: 10.1016/0922-3371(90)90019-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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As seen, important advances have now been made in understanding the beginning of development at fertilization. Free calcium and pHi level changes result from a sperm-mediated breakdown of PPI with production of IP3. The resultant calcium increase, either alone or in concert with diacylglycerol, activates the Na(+)-H+ exchange and a consequent cytosolic pHi level increase. The calcium increase is responsible for the NADP change (via NAD kinase) and possibly the change in G6PD. These two changes could be involved solely in producing NADPH for fertilization membrane hardening or these changes could also have some role in the later initiation of DNA synthesis. The finding that other enzymes assayed in permeabilized cells also evince large changes in activity suggests that a global change may be occurring with important portents for cell activity. The role of calcium in furthering subsequent synthetic events, however, is unclear since no calcium target has yet been described that is necessary for the subsequent specific synthesis of proteins, as cyclins, or for the initiation of DNA synthesis. The pHi level increase, in concert with increased calcium, might be sufficient to start off protein synthesis and subsequent cyclin accumulation. However, the pHi level increase, independently of protein synthesis, can initiate new DNA synthesis. These independent events converge in the putative activation of MPF by cyclin, which then starts off the first mitotic cycle. Other independent events are associated with the sperm entry, cortical modifications, fertilization membrane elevation and the numerous changes leading to the fusion of the sperm and egg nucleus in the egg center. Fertilization represents one of the best studied examples of how a covert developmental program is made overt by an external messenger. The challenges for the near future are to explain how sperm-egg contact leads to PPI hydrolysis and how pHi level changes (and Cai level changes?) lead to the initiation of the cell cycle. The challenge for the distant future is describing how this program is set up during oogenesis.
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- D Epel
- Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
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Biyiti L, Pesando D, Puiseux-Dao S, Girard JP, Payan P. Effect of antibacterial plant flavanones on the intracellular calcium compartment involved in the first cleavage of sea urchin eggs. Toxicon 1990; 28:275-83. [PMID: 2343463 DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(90)90063-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Two plant flavanones, (Sigmoidin A and B) having noticeable antibacterial activity, were assayed using a preparation for the study of sea urchin egg cleavage. When added after insemination, both toxins inhibit egg division with a half maximal dose of 7.5 microM for Sigmoidin A and 12 microM for Sigmoidin B. The first Ca2+ signal following fertilization was not modified by the molecules, however, the intracellular storage of calcium in isolated non-mitochondrial compartments was reduced in a dose-dependent manner by Sigmoidin A and Sigmoidin B. Both trigger a complete discharge of the sequestered calcium. In vivo the flavanones dramatically reduced the capacity of storage of non-mitochondrial intracellular calcium compartments necessary to the cyclical elevation of cytosolic free calcium during the cell cycle.
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- L Biyiti
- U 303 INSERM, BP 3, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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Soskolne CL, Pagano G, Cipollaro M, Beaumont JJ, Giordano GG. Epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence for chronic health effects and the underlying biologic mechanisms involved in sub-lethal exposures to acidic pollutants. ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 1989; 44:180-91. [PMID: 2665665 DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1989.9935884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Since the 1880s, a disparate and extensive literature has evolved examining the biologic effects of acidification on cells. More recently, effects on the health of human and other species of acidic agents contained, for example, in pollutants have been suggested, particularly relating to long-term exposures. This paper provides a review of the epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence concerning health effects--particularly carcinogenicity--attributable to sub-lethal acid exposure. Underlying biologic mechanisms that explain adverse health outcomes include pH modulation of toxicity for a number of xenobiotics (including carcinogens, genotoxins, and teratogens), and low-pH-induced changes of cells involving, for example, alterations in mitotic and enzyme regulation. More focused research is recommended to test the relationship between long-term exposures to acidic agents (with a consequent lowered cellular pH) and various health effects.
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- C L Soskolne
- Department of Health Services Administration and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Sakai H, Ohta K, Toriyama M, Endo S. Calcium in mitosis: role of 51-kD protein in the centrosome of sea urchin egg in aster formation. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1989; 255:471-80. [PMID: 2618872 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5679-0_50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- H Sakai
- Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
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HINKLEY ROBERTE, NEWMAN ARTHURN. Changes in the Distribution of Calcium-Sequestering Membranes during the First Cell Cycle of the Sea Urchin, Lytechinus variegatus. (calcium/chlortetracycline/membranes/microtubule inhibitors/mitosis). Dev Growth Differ 1988. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169x.1988.00219.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Swezey RR, Epel D. Enzyme stimulation upon fertilization is revealed in electrically permeabilized sea urchin eggs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:812-6. [PMID: 3422463 PMCID: PMC279645 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.3.812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Sea urchin eggs and embryos subjected to high-voltage electric discharge in a medium mimicking the intracellular milieu retain their structural integrity and remain permeable, permitting substrates to enter the cytoplasm and thus assay of enzyme activity. At saturating concentrations of substrates, five of six enzymes assayed for more active (three to fifteen times) in permeabilized embryos than in permeabilized eggs, but no fertilization-related differences are seen in homogenates prepared from these same permeabilized cells. Furthermore, enzyme activity in homogenates always exceeds that in the permeabilized cell suspensions. This difference in enzyme reaction rates between unfertilized eggs and fertilized eggs is not due to differences in the diffusibility of substrates into the permeabilized cells. The activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-glucose-6-phosphate:NADP+ 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.49) in permeabilized cells was studied in greater detail and has the following characteristics. (i) Regulation of activity persists during early development. (ii) This regulation is not mediated by diffusible allosteric agents. (iii) Stimulation at fertilization is initiated by a rise in intracellular calcium and is further promoted by cytoplasmic alkalinization. (iv) The microenvironment experienced by this enzyme intracellularly differs from that of the enzyme in homogenates as evidenced by markedly different pH vs. activity profiles. These results indicate that the regulatory status of enzymes is preserved in electrically permeabilized cells and suggest that this regulation depends on some cell structural feature(s) that is (are) destroyed upon homogenization.
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- R R Swezey
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
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Mazia D. The chromosome cycle and the centrosome cycle in the mitotic cycle. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1987; 100:49-92. [PMID: 3549609 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61698-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Swezey RR, Epel D. Regulation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in sea urchin eggs by reversible association with cell structural elements. J Cell Biol 1986; 103:1509-15. [PMID: 3771646 PMCID: PMC2114359 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.103.4.1509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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In unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) associates with the particulate elements remaining either after homogenization or extraction of eggs with non-ionic detergent in low ionic-strength media. At physiological ionic strength, the extent of G6PDH binding to these particulate elements is proportional to the total protein concentration in the extracts. In fertilized eggs this association is prevented by one or more low molecular weight solutes. The dissociation is reversible, and there are no permanent modifications of either G6PDH or its particulate binding site that affect binding. After fertilization, the time course of dissociation of G6PDH from particulate elements is too fast to be caused by a change in intracellular pH, but it could be triggered, but not maintained, by an increase in the intracellular calcium concentration. Binding of G6PDH to the particulate fraction lowers its catalytic activity at all substrate concentrations. Therefore, release of the enzyme into the cytoplasm may be an important part of the suite of events causing metabolic activation of the egg at fertilization.
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OHARA TAKANE, SATO HIDEMI. Distribution of Membrane-Associated Calcium in Fertilized Sea Urchin Eggs during Mitosis*. (calcium distribution/sea urchin eggs/mitosis/chlortetracycline). Dev Growth Differ 1986. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169x.1986.00125.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Zimmerberg J, Sardet C, Epel D. Exocytosis of sea urchin egg cortical vesicles in vitro is retarded by hyperosmotic sucrose: kinetics of fusion monitored by quantitative light-scattering microscopy. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1985; 101:2398-410. [PMID: 4066763 PMCID: PMC2113997 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.101.6.2398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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We have used the isolated planar cortex of sea urchin eggs to examine the role of osmotic forces in exocytosis by morphological and physiological methods. Electron micrographs of rotary-shadowed replicas show an en face view of exocytosis and demonstrate fusion of cortical vesicles to the underlying oolemma upon addition of calcium. Freeze-fracture replicas of rapidly frozen cortices reveal specialized attachment sites between cortical vesicles and the oolemma, and between the cortical vesicles themselves. We describe a novel light scattering assay for the kinetics of fusion which allows rapid changes of solutions and monitors exocytosis in real time. The rate and extent of fusion are found to be calcium dependent. The removal of calcium halts exocytosis. The validation of exocytosis in this system and development of tools for kinetic analysis allowed us to test predictions of the osmotic hypothesis of exocytosis: hyperosmotic media should inhibit exocytosis; calcium should cause vesicular swelling. Cortical vesicles were found to be permeant to sucrose, glucose, and urea. In media made hyperosmotic with 1.7 M sucrose, cortical vesicles were seen to shrink. Addition of calcium in hyperosmotic media led to a 10-fold decrease in the rate of exocytosis compared with the isotonic rate. The rate, while triggered by calcium, was no longer calcium-dependent. This slowing of exocytosis allowed us to photograph the swelling of cortical vesicles caused by calcium. Removal of calcium had no effect on subsequent exocytosis. Return of cortices to isotonic medium without calcium led to immediate exocytosis. These results are consistent with the idea that swelling of cortical vesicles is required for fusion of biological membranes.
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Clapper DL, Lee HC. Inositol trisphosphate induces calcium release from nonmitochondrial stores i sea urchin egg homogenates. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38668-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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