Progress in Cell Cycle Research
The "Progress in Cell Cycle Research" series is dedicated to serve as a collection of reviews on various aspects of the cell division cycle, with special emphasis on less studied aspects. We hope this series will continue to be helpful to students, gradua
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Progress in Cell Cycle Research Volume 4
Edited by
Laurent Meijer Armelle Jezequel Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Roscoff, France
and
Bernard Ducommun Universite Paul Sabotier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Toulouse, France
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
Front cover. PTK1 cells after cytokinesis (micrograph courtesy of Dr. Conly L. Rieder) ISSN 1087-2957 I S B N 978-1-4613-6909-7 I S B N 978-1-4615-4253-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-4253-7 © 2000 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers in 2000 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 http://www.wkap.nl/
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Preface
The "Progress in Cell Cycle Research" series is dedicated to serve as a collection of reviews on various aspects of the cell division cycle, with special emphasis on less studied aspects. We hope this series will continue to be helpful to students, graduates and researchers interested in the cell cycle area and related fields. We hope that reading of these chapters will constitute a "point of entry" into specific aspects of this vast and fast moving field of research. As PCCR4 is being printed several other books on the cell cycle have appeared (ref. 1-3) which should complement our series. This fourth volume of PCCR starts with a review on RAS pathways and how they impinge on the cell cycle (chapter 1). In chapter 2, an overview is presented on the links between cell anchorage - cytoskeleton and cell cycle progression. A model of the Gl control in mammalian cells is provided in chapter 3. The role of histone acetylation and cell cycle contriol is described in chapter 4. Then follow a few reviews dedicated to specific cell cycle regulators: the 14-3-3 protein (chapter 5), the cdc7/Dbf4 protein kinase (chapter 6), the two products of the pI6/CDKN2A locus and their link with Rb and p53 (chapter 7), the Ph085 cyclin-dependent kinases in yeast (chapter 9), the cdc25 phophatase (chapter 10), RCCI and ran (chapter 13). The intriguing phosphorylationdependent prolyl-isomerization process and its function in cell cycle regulation are reviewed in chapter 8. Our current knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of cell cycle regulation has greatly benefited from the use of oocyte maturation, a unique but diverse cellular process investigated in a large variety of models reviewed in chapter 11. The cross-talks between MAP kinase and cdc2/ cyclin B in oocytes have been particularly well understood in Xenopus (Chapter 12). More and more d
