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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Huang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5077295 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20161013
Many eukaryotes assemble a ring-shaped actomyosin network that contracts to drive cytokinesis. Unlike actomyosin in sarcomeres, which cycles through contraction and relaxation, the cytokinetic ring disassembles during contraction through an unknown mechanism. Here we find in <i>Schizosaccharomyces japonicus</i> and <i>Schizosaccharomyces pombe</i> that, during actomyosin ring contraction, actin filaments associated with actomyosin rings are expelled as micron-scale bundles containing multiple ac ...[more]