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ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2019

Actin turnover ensures uniform tension distribution during cytokinetic actomyosin ring contraction.

Thomas H Cheffings, Nigel J Burroughs, Mohan K Balasubramanian

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Myosin turnover controls actomyosin contractile instability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  9. Evolutionarily diverse LIM domain-containing proteins bind stressed actin filaments through a conserved mechanism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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3 authors.

Thomas H CheffingsCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School.
Nigel J BurroughsZeeman Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
Mohan K BalasubramanianCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT101885MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many eukaryotes, cytokinesis is facilitated by the contraction of an actomyosin ring (AMR). The exact mechanisms that lead to this contractility are unknown, although some models posit that actin turnover in the AMR is essential. The effect of reduced actin dynamics during AMR formation has been well studied in Schizosaccharomyces pombe; however, the corresponding effects on AMR contraction are not well understood. By using mutants of the fission yeast actin severing protein Adf1, we observed that contracting AMRs display a "peeling" phenotype, where bundles of actin and myosin peel off from one side of the AMR, and are pulled across to the opposite side. This occurs multiple times during cytokinesis and is dependent on the activity of myosins Myo2, Myp2, and Myo51. We found that the distribution of Myo2 in the AMR anticorrelates with the location of peeling events, suggesting that peeling is caused by a nonuniform tension distribution around the AMR, and that one of the roles of actin turnover is to maintain a uniform tension distribution around the AMR.

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Actin CytoskeletonActin Depolymerizing FactorsActinsActomyosinCell DivisionCytokinesisMicrofilament ProteinsMyosin Heavy ChainsMyosinsMyosin Type IIPhenotypeSchizosaccharomycesSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsActin Depolymerizing FactorsActinsActomyosinMicrofilament ProteinsMYO2 protein, S pombeMyo51 protein, S pombeMyosin Heavy ChainsMyosinsMyosin Type IIMyp2 protein, S pombeSchizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins

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PMID30759055
PMCPMC6589908

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