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p34cdc2 and cyclin B are two key proteins in the eukaryotic cell cycle control machinery. They thus could be important cell cycle markers for studies of environmental effects on cell cycle progression and on growth rate of marine phytoplankton. From July 1993 to March 1995, we used commercially available antibodies to examine the presence of their homologs in a marine phytoplankton species, Dunaliella tertiolecta Butcher. A p34cdc2-like protein was detected on the Western blots, with an apparent molecular mass as expected (34 kDa). Anti-cyclin B detected a protein of 63 kDa, a size similar to that of cyclin B in other organisms. The two proteins decreased from the exponential to the stationary growth phase. As determined on the Western blots, their abundance only changed slightly during the cell cycle, being slightly more abundant prior to cell division. Immunofluorescence performed for a partially synchronized culture showed that the fraction of the cell population that was positively stained by anti-p34cdc2 was highest at the time when the culture was mainly in the late G1 or early S phase, and in the late G2 or early M phase, respectively. The fraction was low when the culture was mainly in the S phase. Although further characterization is required to verify their identities, these two growth phase-related proteins appear to be p34cdc2 and cyclin B homologs, which may be useful in studying the cell cycle and growth rates of phytoplankton.
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Lin, S., Carpenter, E.J. & Chang, J. Detection of p34cdc2- and cyclin B-like proteins in Dunaliella tertiolecta (Chlorophyceae). Marine Biology 125, 603–610 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00353271
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