Contractile-ring assembly in fission yeast cytokinesis: Recent advances and new perspectives

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 751-763

  Lee, I Ju ^a   Coffman, Valerie C ^a   Wu, Jian Qiu ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

And release model; Anillin; Capture; Contractile ring; Nodes; Pull; S. pombe; Search

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN CAPPING PROTEIN; ALPHA ACTININ; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 12; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 15; COFILIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; MYOSIN II; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; POLO LIKE KINASE; PROTEIN MID1; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOKINESIS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE INTERACTION; INTERPHASE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPINDLE POLE BODY; WILD TYPE;

BIOMECHANICS; CYTOKINESIS; INTERPHASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84867988900     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.21052     Document Type: Review

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