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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1998//1559 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 142, Number 6, , 1998 1559-1569


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The Xenopus Chk1 Protein Kinase Mediates a Caffeine-sensitive Pathway of Checkpoint Control in Cell-free Extracts



Akiko Kumagai, Zijian Guo, Katayoon H. Emami, Sophie X. Wang, and William G. Dunphy

Division of Biology, 216-76, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

We have analyzed the role of the protein kinase Chk1 in checkpoint control by using cell-free extracts from Xenopus eggs. Recombinant Xenopus Chk1 (Xchk1) phosphorylates the mitotic inducer Cdc25 in vitro on multiple sites including Ser-287. The Xchk1-catalyzed phosphorylation of Cdc25 on Ser-287 is sufficient to confer the binding of 14-3-3 proteins. Egg extracts from which Xchk1 has been removed by immunodepletion are strongly but not totally compromised in their ability to undergo a cell cycle delay in response to the presence of unreplicated DNA. Cdc25 in Xchk1-depleted extracts remains bound to 14-3-3 due to the action of a distinct Ser-287-specific kinase in addition to Xchk1. Xchk1 is highly phosphorylated in the presence of unreplicated or damaged DNA, and this phosphorylation is abolished by caffeine, an agent which attenuates checkpoint control. The checkpoint response to unreplicated DNA in this system involves both caffeine-sensitive and caffeine-insensitive steps. Our results indicate that caffeine disrupts the checkpoint pathway containing Xchk1.

Key Words: Cdc2 • Chk1 • 14-3-3 proteins • Cdc25 • caffeine



Abbreviations used in this paper: GST, glutathione-S-transferase; HBS, Hepes-buffered saline; MPF, M phase–promoting factor; Xchk1, Xenopus Chk1.

We are very grateful to W. Sullivan (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA) for providing the sequence of Drosophila Grapes. We thank our colleagues for comments on the manuscript.

Address all correspondence to W.G. Dunphy, Division of Biology, 216-76, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125. Tel.: (626) 395-8433. Fax: (626) 449-0679. E-mail: dunphy{at}cco.caltech.edu



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