Cytokinesis: new roles for myosin - PubMed (original) (raw)
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. 2005 Apr 26;15(8):R310-1.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.04.008.
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.04.008
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Cytokinesis: new roles for myosin
David R Burgess. Curr Biol. 2005.
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Abstract
Myosin II is the motor for cytokinesis, an event at the end of cell division during which the animal cell uses a contractile ring to pinch itself in half. New and surprising research shows that myosin, either through light chain phosphorylation or through its ATPase activity, also plays an important role in both the assembly and disassembly of the actin contractile ring.