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The Fission Yeast Actomyosin Cytoskeleton

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Everything interesting that happens to a fission yeast happens at the ends of the cell or in the middle. Cell growth and conjugation are confined to the cell poles whilst cell division, both mitosis and cytokinesis, occurs at the equator. More than 15 years ago we showed that the distribution of actin through the fission yeast cell cycle precisely paralleled the pattern of cell growth and cytokinesis (Marks et al. 1986). Here, we review the progress that has been made in our understanding of the role of the actin cytoskeleton since these initial observations and, in particular, the role of the myosin gene family.

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Gachet, Y., Mulvihill, D.P., Hyams, J.S. (2004). The Fission Yeast Actomyosin Cytoskeleton. In: Egel, R. (eds) The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10360-9_14

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