Direct evidence for a critical role of myosin II in budding yeast cytokinesis and the evolvability of new cytokinetic mechanisms in the absence of myosin II

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 798-809

  Tolliday, Nicola ^a   Pitcher, Maria ^a   Li, Rong ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN II;

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ACTOMYOSIN; CELL DIVISION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOSIN TYPE II; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0037326058     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-09-0558     Document Type: Article

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