Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast

JQ Wu, TD Pollard - Science, 2005 - science.org
We used fluorescence microscopy to measure global and local concentrations of 28
cytoskeletal and signaling proteins fused to yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) in the fission …

Mitosis in living budding yeast: anaphase A but no metaphase plate

AF Straight, WF Marshall, JW Sedat, AW Murray - Science, 1997 - science.org
Chromosome movements and spindle dynamics were visualized in living cells of the
budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Individual chromosomal loci were detected by …

Dissecting temporal and spatial control of cytokinesis with a myosin II Inhibitor

AF Straight, A Cheung, J Limouze, I Chen… - Science, 2003 - science.org
Completion of cell division during cytokinesis requires temporally and spatially regulated
communication from the microtubule cytoskeleton to the actin cytoskeleton and the cell …

Imaging green fluorescent protein fusions in living fission yeast cells

PT Tran, A Paoletti, F Chang - Methods, 2004 - Elsevier
The use of green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions as biosensors for examining protein
localization and dynamics has revolutionized cell biology. Here, we describe the methods …

Spatial and temporal pathway for assembly and constriction of the contractile ring in fission yeast cytokinesis

JQ Wu, JR Kuhn, DR Kovar, TD Pollard - Developmental cell, 2003 - cell.com
Microscopy of fluorescent fusion proteins and genetic dependencies show that fission yeast
assemble and constrict a cytokinetic contractile ring in a precisely timed, sequential order …

Ploidy regulation of gene expression

T Galitski, AJ Saldanha, CA Styles, ES Lander, GR Fink - Science, 1999 - science.org
Microarray-based gene expression analysis identified genes showing ploidy-dependent
expression in isogenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains that varied in ploidy from haploid …

Spatial organization of cytokinesis signaling reconstituted in a cell-free system

PA Nguyen, AC Groen, M Loose, K Ishihara, M Wühr… - Science, 2014 - science.org
During animal cell division, the cleavage furrow is positioned by microtubules that signal to
the actin cortex at the cell midplane. We developed a cell-free system to recapitulate …

Chromosome dynamics in the yeast interphase nucleus

P Heun, T Laroche, K Shimada, P Furrer, SM Gasser - Science, 2001 - science.org
Little is known about the dynamics of chromosomes in interphase nuclei. By tagging four
chromosomal regions with a green fluorescent protein fusion to lac repressor, we monitored …

Movement of yeast cortical actin cytoskeleton visualized in vivo.

T Doyle, D Botstein - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
Fusion proteins between the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the cytoskeleton proteins
Act1p (actin), Sac6p (yeast fimbrin homolog), and Abp1p in budding yeast (Saccharomyces …

Molecular organization of cytokinesis nodes and contractile rings by super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of live fission yeast

C Laplante, F Huang, IR Tebbs… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Cytokinesis in animals, fungi, and amoebas depends on the constriction of a contractile ring
built from a common set of conserved proteins. Many fundamental questions remain about …