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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
卷 15, 期 7, 页码 853-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2781
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- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) [22247031]
- NUS JSPS
- Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
- Gakushuin University
- Mechanobiology Institute
- Singapore Millennium Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22247031, 25117522] Funding Source: KAKEN
Cytokinesis in many eukaryotes involves the contraction of an actomyosin-based contractile ring(1,2). However, the detailed mechanism of contractile ring contraction is not fully understood. Here, we establish an experimental system to study contraction of the ring to completion in vitro. We show that the contractile ring of permeabilized fission yeast cells undergoes rapid contraction in an ATP- and myosin-II-dependent manner in the absence of other cytoplasmic constituents. Surprisingly, neither actin polymerization nor its disassembly is required for contraction of the contractile ring, although addition of exogenous actin-crosslinking proteins blocks ring contraction. Using contractile rings generated from fission yeast cytokinesis mutants, we show that not all proteins required for assembly of the ring are required for its contraction in vitro. Our work provides the beginnings of the definition of a minimal contraction-competent cytokinetic ring apparatus.
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