2015
Three Myosins Contribute Uniquely to the Assembly and Constriction of the Fission Yeast Cytokinetic Contractile Ring
Laplante C, Berro J, Karatekin E, Hernandez-Leyva A, Lee R, Pollard TD. Three Myosins Contribute Uniquely to the Assembly and Constriction of the Fission Yeast Cytokinetic Contractile Ring. Current Biology 2015, 25: 1955-1965. PMID: 26144970, PMCID: PMC4526439, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsContractile ringActin filamentsHeavy chain geneMyosin IIContractile ring assemblyFission yeast cellsMyosin heavy chain geneCytokinetic contractile ringConventional myosin IICytokinetic nodesMyo2Myo51Myp2Ring assemblyYeast cellsMyosin functionCytokinesisDeletion mutationsComplete assemblyMyosin VConstriction rateGenesMutationsCellsFilaments
2014
Mechanism of Cytokinetic Contractile Ring Constriction in Fission Yeast
Stachowiak MR, Laplante C, Chin HF, Guirao B, Karatekin E, Pollard TD, O’Shaughnessy B. Mechanism of Cytokinetic Contractile Ring Constriction in Fission Yeast. Developmental Cell 2014, 29: 547-561. PMID: 24914559, PMCID: PMC4137230, DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.04.021.Peer-Reviewed Original Research