Distinct Roles of Myosin-II Isoforms in Cytokinesis under Normal and Stressed Conditions

• Published in: iScience Vol. 14; pp. 69 - 87
• Main Authors: Okada, Hiroki, Wloka, Carsten, Wu, Jian-Qiu, Bi, Erfei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier 26.04.2019
• Subjects: Molecular Mechanism of Behavior; Functional Aspects of Cell Biology; Cell Biology

To address the question of why more than one myosin-II isoform is expressed in a single cell to drive cytokinesis, we analyzed the roles of the myosin-II isoforms, Myo2 and Myp2, of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, in cytokinesis under normal and stressed conditions. We found that Myp2 c...