Mammalian oocytes are arrested at meiotic prophase I. The dual-specificity phosphatase CDC25B is essential for cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1) activation that drives resumption of meiosis. CDC25B reverses the inhibitory effect of the protein kinases WEE1 and MYT1 on CDK1 activation. Cdc25b-/- female mice are infertile because oocytes cannot activate CDK1. To identify a role for CDC25B following resumption of meiosis, we restored CDK1 activation in Cdc25b-/- oocytes by inhibiting WEE1 and MYT1, or expressing EGFP-CDC25A or constitutively active EGFP-CDK1 from microinjected complementary RNAs. Forced CDK1 activation in Cdc25b-/- oocytes allowed resumption of meiosis, but oocytes mostly arrested at metaphase I (MI) with intact spindles. Similarly, approximately a third of Cdc25b+/- oocytes with a reduced amount of CDC25B arrested in MI. MI-arrested Cdc25b-/- oocytes also displayed a transient decrease in CDK1 activity similar to Cdc25b+/+ oocytes during the MI-MII transition, whereas Cdc25b+/- oocytes exhibited only a partial anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome activation and anaphase I entry. Thus, CDC25B is necessary for the resumption of meiosis and the MI-MII transition.

Department of Anatomy Physiology and Cell Biology School of Veterinary Medicine University of California Davis CA 95616 USA

Department of Biology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104 USA

Department of Cell Biology Faculty of Science Charles University 128 00 Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences 277 21 Libechov Czech Republic

Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences 142 20 Prague Czech Republic

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