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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-6-22
pubmed:abstractText
Jak2, which is a member of the Janus tyrosine kinase family, plays essential roles in cytokine signal transduction and in the regulation of cell growth and gene expression. To investigate the involvement of Jak2 in the regulation of early preimplantation development, we examined the expression of Jak2 in mouse embryos. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays revealed that the relative amount of Jak2 mRNA was highest in unfertilized oocytes, gradually decreased until the four-cell stage, and remained at low levels until the blastocyst stage. Immunocytochemistry showed that Jak2 was localized predominantly to the female pronucleus in one-cell embryos. The immunofluorescence signal was very weak or undetectable in the male pronucleus. In unfertilized oocytes and one-cell embryos at M phase, Jak2 was localized to the chromosomes. After cleavage to the two-cell stage, the intensity of the immunofluorescence signal decreased in the nucleus while the embryos were in late G2. This decrease was independent of DNA synthesis because it was not affected by inhibition of DNA replication. However, inhibition of protein synthesis repressed the disappearance of Jak2 from the nucleus. These results suggest a novel function for Jak2 in the regulation of early preimplantation development.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0006-3363
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
71
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
89-96
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Blastocyst, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Cell Nucleus, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Cleavage Stage, Ovum, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Female, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Janus Kinase 2, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Male, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Microscopy, Confocal, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Oocytes, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Oogenesis, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Tissue Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:14998905-Tissue Distribution
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Localization of janus kinase 2 to the nuclei of mature oocytes and early cleavage stage mouse embryos.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article