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¹ Max-Planck-Institut fuer Immunbiologie Developmental Biology, 79108 Freiburg, Germany
² Institute of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
³ ProQinase GMBH, 79106 Freiburg, Germany

Correspondence to Chizuko Tsurumi: tsurumi{at}immunbio.mpg.de

In Xenopus oocytes, the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) kinase Bub1 is required for cytostatic factor (CSF)-induced metaphase arrest in meiosis II. To investigate whether matured mouse oocytes are kept in metaphase by a SAC-mediated inhibition of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) complex, we injected a dominant-negative Bub1 mutant (Bub1dn) into mouse oocytes undergoing meiosis in vitro. Passage through meiosis I was accelerated, but even though the SAC was disrupted, injected oocytes still arrested at metaphase II. Bub1dn-injected oocytes released from CSF and treated with nocodazole to disrupt the second meiotic spindle proceeded into interphase, whereas noninjected control oocytes remained arrested at metaphase. Similar results were obtained using dominant-negative forms of Mad2 and BubR1, as well as checkpoint resistant dominant APC/C activating forms of Cdc20. Thus, SAC proteins are required for checkpoint functions in meiosis I and II, but, in contrast to frog eggs, the SAC is not required for establishing or maintaining the CSF arrest in mouse oocytes.

Abbreviations used in this paper: APC/C, anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome; CSF, cytostatic factor; GV, germinal vesicle; GVBD, GV breakdown; MPF, maturation promoting factor; PB, polar body; PI, propidium iodide; SAC, spindle assembly checkpoint.

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