Cytokinesis: Closing in on the Central Spindle

Overview

Journal Dev Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialties Cell Biology
Reproductive Medicine

Date 2002 Jan 10

PMID 11782308

Citations 3

Authors

Aaron F Severson

Bruce Bowerman

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Abstract

The central spindle is important for the completion of cytokinesis. Genetic and biochemical approaches have identified a tetrameric complex, made up of a mitotic kinesin-like protein and a Rho-GTPase activating protein, that mediates central spindle assembly.

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