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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 183, Issue 6, Pages 979-988Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200806151
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Cytokinesis in many eukaryotes depends on the function of an actomyosin contractile ring. The mechanisms regulating assembly and positioning of this ring are not fully understood. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe divides using an actomyosin ring and is an attractive organism for the study of cytokinesis. Recent studies in S. pombe (Wu, J.Q., V. Sirotkin, D. R. Kovar, M. Lord, C. C. Beltzner, J.R. Kuhn, and T. D. Pollard. 2006. J. Cell Biol. 174: 391-402; Vavylonis, D., J. Q. Wu, S. Hao, B. O'Shaughnessy, and T. D. Pollard. 2008. Science. 319: 97-100) have suggested that the assembly of the actomyosin ring is initiated from a series of cortical nodes containing several components of this ring. These studies have proposed that actomyosin interactions bring together the cortical nodes to form a compacted ring structure. In this study, we test this model in cells that are unable to assemble cortical nodes. Although the cortical nodes play a role in the timing of ring assembly, we find that they are dispensable for the assembly of orthogonal actomyosin rings. Thus, a mechanism that is independent of cortical nodes is sufficient for the assembly of normal actomyosin rings.
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