Alina M Vrabioiu1, Timothy J Mitchison

  • 1Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. alina_vrabioiu@student.hms.harvard.edu

Nature
|September 29, 2006
PubMed
まとめ

細胞分裂に不可欠なセプティンは,砂時計からリング構造に変化します. フィラメントはブドネックに沿って並べられ,その後回転して酵母細胞分裂中に周回環を形成します.

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