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Tetsuro Morisaki1, Toru Hirota, Shin-ichi Iida, Tomotoshi Marumoto, Toshihiro Hara, Yasuyuki Nishiyama, Michio Kawasuzi, Takehisa Hiraoka, Tatsuyuki Mimori, Norie Araki, Ichiro Izawa, Masaki Inagaki, Hideyuki Saya.
Abstract
Identification of physiological substrates for Cdc2/cyclin B is crucial for understanding the functional link between mitotic events and Cdc2/cyclin B activation. A human homologue of the Drosophila warts tumor suppressor, termed WARTS, is a serine/threonine kinase and a dynamic component of the mitotic apparatus. We have found that Cdc2/cyclin B forms a complex with a fraction of WARTS in the centrosome and phosphorylates the Ser613 site of WARTS during mitosis. Immunocytochemical analysis has shown that the S613-phosphorylated WARTS appears in the spindle poles at prometaphase and disappears at telophase. Our findings suggest that Cdc/cyclin B regulates functions of WARTS on the mitotic apparatus.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12372621 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03360-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124