Mastl is required for timely activation of APC/C in meiosis I and Cdk1 reactivation in meiosis II.

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Deepak Adhikari M Kasim Diril Kiran Busayavalasa Sanjiv Risal Shoma Nakagawa Rebecca Lindkvist Yan Shen Vincenzo Coppola Lino Tessarollo Nobuaki R Kudo Philipp Kaldis Kui Liu

J Cell Biol 2014 Sep 22;206(7):843-53. Epub 2014 Sep 22.

Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, S-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden

In mitosis, the Greatwall kinase (called microtubule-associated serine/threonine kinase like [Mastl] in mammals) is essential for prometaphase entry or progression by suppressing protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activity. PP2A suppression in turn leads to high levels of Cdk1 substrate phosphorylation. We have used a mouse model with an oocyte-specific deletion of Mastl to show that Mastl-null oocytes resume meiosis I and reach metaphase I normally but that the onset and completion of anaphase I are delayed. Moreover, after the completion of meiosis I, Mastl-null oocytes failed to enter meiosis II (MII) because they reassembled a nuclear structure containing decondensed chromatin. Our results show that Mastl is required for the timely activation of anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome to allow meiosis I exit and for the rapid rise of Cdk1 activity that is needed for the entry into MII in mouse oocytes.

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