Cortical recruitment of nonmuscle myosin II in early syncytial Drosophila embryos: Its role in nuclear axial expansion and its regulation by Cdc2 activity

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 127-137

  Royou, Anne ^a   Sullivan, William ^b   Karess, Roger ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokinesis; Nuclear axial expansion; Phosphorylation; Regulatory myosin light chain; Rho kinase

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYCLIN B; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RHO KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; COLCHICINE; CYCLIN B; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; MYOSIN TYPE II; MYOSINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0037043336     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200203148     Document Type: Article

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