Understanding cytokinesis: lessons from fission yeast

TD Pollard, JQ Wu - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
For decades after the discovery that a contractile ring made of actin filaments and myosin II
produces the force to constrict the cleavage furrow of animal cells, the complexity of …

Three's company: the fission yeast actin cytoskeleton

DR Kovar, V Sirotkin, M Lord - Trends in cell biology, 2011 - cell.com
How the actin cytoskeleton assembles into different structures to drive diverse cellular
processes is a fundamental cell biological question. In addition to orchestrating the …

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 …

Assembly and architecture of precursor nodes during fission yeast cytokinesis

D Laporte, VC Coffman, IJ Lee, JQ Wu - Journal of Cell Biology, 2011 - rupress.org
The contractile ring is essential for cytokinesis in most fungal and animal cells. In fission
yeast, cytokinesis nodes are precursors of the contractile ring and mark the future cleavage …

Syp1 is a conserved endocytic adaptor that contains domains involved in cargo selection and membrane tubulation

A Reider, SL Barker, SK Mishra, YJ Im… - The EMBO …, 2009 - embopress.org
Internalization of diverse transmembrane cargos from the plasma membrane requires a
similarly diverse array of specialized adaptors, yet only a few adaptors have been …

Nanoscale architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring

NA McDonald, AL Lind, SE Smith, R Li, KL Gould - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The contractile ring is a complex molecular apparatus which physically divides many
eukaryotic cells. Despite knowledge of its protein composition, the molecular architecture of …

Pombe's thirteen–control of fission yeast cell division by the septation initiation network

V Simanis - Journal of cell science, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The septation initiation network (SIN) regulates aspects of cell growth and division in
Schizosaccharomyces pombe and is essential for cytokinesis. Insufficient signalling results …

Membrane shaping by the Bin/amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain protein superfamily

Y Rao, V Haucke - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2011 - Springer
BAR domain superfamily proteins have emerged as central regulators of dynamic
membrane remodeling, thereby playing important roles in a wide variety of cellular …

Dephosphorylation of F-BAR protein Cdc15 modulates its conformation and stimulates its scaffolding activity at the cell division site

RH Roberts-Galbraith, MD Ohi, BA Ballif, JS Chen… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
Cytokinesis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe requires the function of Cdc15, the founding
member of the pombe cdc15 homology (PCH) family of proteins. As an early, abundant …

Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals pathways for coordination of cell growth and division by the conserved fission yeast kinase pom1

AN Kettenbach, L Deng, Y Wu, S Baldissard… - Molecular & cellular …, 2015 - ASBMB
Complex phosphorylation-dependent signaling networks underlie the coordination of
cellular growth and division. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the Dual …