Actomyosin rings: The riddle of the sphincter

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作者
Bement, WM [1 ]
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[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Zool, Program Cellular & Mol Biol, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00639-X
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
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.
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