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The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol 110, 1049-1053, Copyright © 1990 by The Rockefeller University Press
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WP Jiang, RA Gottlieb, WJ Lennarz and WH Kinsey
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101.
Fertilization of the sea urchin egg results in the phosphorylation, on tyrosine, of a high molecular weight protein localized in the egg cortex. In the present study, treatment of unfertilized eggs with the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of the high molecular weight cortical protein to levels three- to fivefold higher than that occurring in response to fertilization. Experiments using agents that inhibit the egg Na+/H+ exchange system or mimic the fertilization-induced shift in cytoplasmic pHi, suggest a signal transduction pathway in which protein kinase C activates the egg Na+/H+ exchange system and the resultant cytoplasmic pHi shift promotes tyrosine phosphorylation of the high molecular weight cortical protein.
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