| Controlling septation in fission yeast: finding the middle, and timing it right |
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| Author(s): Le Goff X, Utzig S, Simanis V |
| Source: CURRENT GENETICS Volume: 35 Issue: 6 Pages: 571-584 Published: JUL 1999 |
| Times Cited: 91 References: 89 |
| Abstract: The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe provides a simple eukaryotic model for the study of cytokinesis. S. pombe cells are rod-shaped, grow mainly by elongation at their tips, and divide by binary fission after forming a centrally placed division septum. Analysis of mutants has begun to shed light upon how septum formation and cytokinesis are regulated both spatially and temporally. Some of the proteins involved in these events have been functionally conserved throughout eukaryotic evolution, suggesting that aspects of this control will be common to all eukaryotic cells. |
| Document Type: Review |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Simanis, V (reprint author), Swiss Inst Expt Canc Res, Chemin Boveresses 155, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland |
Addresses:
1. Swiss Inst Expt Canc Res, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland |
| Publisher: SPRINGER VERLAG, 175 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10010 USA |
| Subject Category: Genetics & Heredity |
| IDS Number: 224GV |
| ISSN: 0172-8083 |