Publication Date:
2007
Description:
Animals and fungi assemble a contractile ring of actin filaments and the motor protein myosin to separate into individual daughter cells during cytokinesis. We used fluorescence microscopy of live fission yeast cells to observe that membrane-bound nodes containing myosin were broadly distributed around the cell equator and assembled into a contractile ring through stochastic motions, after a meshwork of dynamic actin filaments appeared. Analysis of node motions and numerical simulations supported a mechanism whereby transient connections are established when myosins in one node capture and exert force on actin filaments growing from other nodes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vavylonis, Dimitrios -- Wu, Jian-Qiu -- Hao, Steven -- O'Shaughnessy, Ben -- Pollard, Thomas D -- GM-26132/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-26338/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM026132/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM026338/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086546/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 Jan 4;319(5859):97-100. Epub 2007 Dec 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18079366" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Actin Cytoskeleton/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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*Cytokinesis
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Microscopy, Confocal
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Microscopy, Fluorescence
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Models, Biological
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Monte Carlo Method
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Movement
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Myosin Type II/*metabolism
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Schizosaccharomyces/*cytology/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Stochastic Processes
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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