Cytokinesis: does Mid1 have an identity crisis?
New work shows the anillin-related protein Mid1 does not position the cytokinetic ring in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, unlike its role in S. pombe. Further analysis suggests the conserved function of Mid1-like anillin proteins may be in scaffolding, not positioning, the cytokinetic ring.
Department of Biochemistry, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. Electronic address: james.b.moseley@dartmouth.edu.
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D005075:Biological Evolution; D002455:Cell Division; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000502:physiology*