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CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 126-132Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(99)00066-6
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The ability of substrate-anchored Dictyostelium cells to divide without myosin II has opened the possibility of analysing the formation of cleavage furrows in the absence of a contractile ring made of filamentous myosin and actin. Similar possibilities exist in mutants of budding yeast and, less strictly, also in drug-treated mammalian cells. Myosin-II-independent activities in Dictyostelium include the microtubule-induced programming of the cell surface into ruffling areas and regions that are converted into a concave furrow, as well as the translocation of cortexillins and cross-linked membrane proteins towards the cleavage furrow. A centripetal flow of actin filaments followed by their disassembly in the cleavage furrow is proposed to underlie the translocation.
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