Two different protein kinases act on a different time schedule as glial filament kinases during mitosis.

AUTOR(ES)

Matsuoka, Y

RESUMO

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a component of glial filaments specific to astroglia. We now report the spatial and temporal distributions of four phosphorylated sites in the GFAP molecule during mitosis of astroglial cells, determined by antibodies which can distinguish phosphorylated epitopes from non-phosphorylated-epitopes. Immunofluorescence microscopy showed that the Ser8 residues in the entire cytoplasmic glial filament system are initially phosphorylated when the cells enter mitosis. In cytokinesis, the phosphoSer8 residues become dephosphorylated, whereas Thr7, Ser13 and Ser34 in glial filaments at the cleavage furrow become the preferred sites of phosphorylation. The cdc2 kinase purified from mitotic cells can phosphorylate GFAP at Ser8 but not at Thr7, Ser13 or Ser34, in vitro. These results suggest that cdc2 kinase acts as a glial filament kinase only at the G2-M phase transition while other glial filament kinases are probably activated at the cleavage furrow before final separation of the daughter cells.

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