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Actomyosin rings: the riddle of the sphincter
1Department of Zoology, Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA. wmbement@facstaff.wisc.edu
Current Biology : CB
|January 16, 2002
Abstract:
Contractile rings consisting of actin filaments and myosin-2 have long been known to power cytokinesis, but recent work has shown that single-cell and multicellular actomyosin rings participate in processes ranging from wound healing to extrusion of apoptotic cells from epithelia.