Dividing the spoils of growth and the cell cycle: The fission yeast as a model for the study of cytokinesis

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-88

  Goyal, Anupama ^a   Takaine, Masak ^b   Simanis, Viesturs ^a   Nakano, Kentaro ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Contractile ring; Cytokinesis; Myosin; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; SIN

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN II;

ANEUPLOIDY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DEATH; CELL KINETICS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; DAUGHTER CELL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TETRAPLOIDY; YEAST;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CYTOKINESIS; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 78751550466     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20500     Document Type: Review

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