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Septin

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Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules

Synonyms

SEPT1: Septin 1; DIFF6; LARP; PNUTL3; SEP1

SEPT2: Septin 2; DIFF6; NEDD-5; NEDD5; Pnutl3; hNedd5; KIAA0158

SEPT3: Septin 3; SEP3; bK250D10.3

SEPT4: Septin 4; H5; ARTS; MART; SEP4; CE5B3; PNUTL2; hucep-7; BRADEION; hCDCREL-2

SEPT5: Septin 5; H5; CDCREL; PNUTL1; CDCREL1; CDCREL-1; HCDCREL-1

SEPT6: Septin 6; KIAA0128; MGC16619; MGC20339; SEP2

SEPT7: Septin 7; CDC3; CDC10; SEPT7A

SEPT8: Septin 8; KIAA0202; SEP2

SEPT9: Septin 9; MSF; MSF1; NAPB; SINT1; PNUTL4; SeptD1; AF17q25; KIAA0991; Ov/Br septin

SEPT10: Septin 10; FLJ11619; sept1-like

SEPT11: Septin 11; FLJ10849

SEPT12: Septin 12; FLJ25410; SPGF10

SEPT14: Septin 14; FLJ44060

Historical Background

Septins were initially identified in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as genes essential for cytoplasmic division (Hartwell 1971; Hartwell et al. 1970). While the isolation and characterization of yeast mutants with defects in cell-cycle control yielded a Nobel Prize for Leland Hartwell, septin mutants which displayed a...

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Menon, M.B. (2018). Septin. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101986

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