| Range |
~1.8 µm
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| Organism |
Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe |
| Reference |
Vavylonis D, Wu JQ, Hao S, O'Shaughnessy B, Pollard TD. Assembly mechanism of the contractile ring for cytokinesis by fission yeast. Science. 2008 Jan 4 319(5859):97-100. p.97 right column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID18079366
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| Method |
"[Researchers] 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." |
| Comments |
"Fission yeast assembled a cytokinetic contractile
ring by condensation of a broad band
of membrane-associated nodes (Fig. 1, A and
B, and Movie S1)...Wild-type cells assembled 63 ± 10 (n = 22)
nodes located close to the plasma membrane in
a band ~1.8µm wide around the middle of the
cell (Fig. 1A and Movie S1). Nodes were distributed
randomly around the equator and in a
Gaussian manner along the long axis of the
cell (fig. S1A)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
111108 |