Ime2p and Cdc28p: co-pilots driving meiotic development |
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Authors: | Honigberg Saul M |
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Institution: | Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2499, USA. honigbergs@umkc.edu |
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Abstract: | Meiosis can be considered an elaboration of the cell division cycle in the sense that meiosis combines cell-cycle processes with programs specific to meiosis. Each phase of the cell division cycle is driven forward by cell-cycle kinases (Cdk) and coordinated with other phases of the cycle through checkpoint functions. Meiotic differentiation is also controlled by these two types of regulation; however, recent study in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae indicates that progression of meiosis is also controlled by a master regulator specific to meiosis, namely the Ime2p kinase. Below, I describe the overlapping roles of Ime2p and Cdk during meiosis in yeast and speculate on how these two kinases cooperate to drive the progression of meiosis. |
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Keywords: | sporulation Cln Ime1 |
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