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  • Curvature-induced expulsion of actomyosin bundles during cytokinetic ring contraction.

Curvature-induced expulsion of actomyosin bundles during cytokinetic ring contraction.

eLife (2016-10-25)
Junqi Huang, Ting Gang Chew, Ying Gu, Saravanan Palani, Anton Kamnev, Douglas S Martin, Nicholas J Carter, Robert Anthony Cross, Snezhana Oliferenko, Mohan K Balasubramanian
PMID27734801
ABSTRACT

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