Cytokinetic actomyosin ring formation and septation in fission yeast are dependent on the full recruitment of the polo-like kinase Plo1 to the spindle pole body and a functional spindle assembly checkpoint

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3575-3586

  Mulvihill, Daniel P ^a   Hyams, Jeremy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytokinetic actin ring; Microtubules; S. pombe; Spindle assembly checkpoint

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BENOMYL; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LATRUNCULIN B; MYOSIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN MAD2; PROTEIN PLO1; TIABENDAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL KINETICS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DEPOLYMERIZATION; GENE FUSION; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPINDLE POLE BODY; YEAST CELL;

ACTINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, CDC; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; MYOSIN TYPE II; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0037106575     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00031     Document Type: Article

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