Week of March 13, 2000

Bezanilla and Pollard (2000) Myosin II Tails confer unique functions in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: Characterization of a novel Myosin II tail Molecular Biology of the Cell. Vol 11: 79-91

Week of February 28, 2000

Vallen, E.A., Caviston, J., and Bi, E. (2000) Roles of Hof1p, Bni1p, Bnr1p, and Myo1p in cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell. Vol. 11 p. 593-611

Week of February 14, 2000

Kaltschmidt, J. A., Davidson, C. M., Brown, N. H., and A. H. Brand. (1999) Rotation and asymmetry of the mitotic spindle direct asymmetric cell division in the developing central nervous system. Nature Cell Biology. 2:7-12.

Week of January 31, 2000

Monique A. Lorson, H. Robert Horvitz, and Sander van den Heuvel. (2000) LIN-5 Is a Novel Component of the Spindle Apparatus Required for Chromosome Segregation and Cleavage Plane Specification in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Cell Biology. 148:73-86.

Week of January 17, 2000

LY. Kawano, Y. Fukata, N. Oshiro, M. Amano, T. Nakamura, M. Ito, F. Matsumura, M. Inagaki and K. Kaibuchi (1999) Phosphorylation of myosin-binding subunit (MBS) of myosin phosphatase by Rho-kinase in vivo. Journal of Cell Biology. 147(5): 1023-1038.

Week of December 6, 1999

Lloyd, C. (1999) How I learned to love carrots: the role of the cytoskeleton in shaping plant cells. Bioessays. 21(12):1061-1068.

Gu, X. and Verma, D.F. (1997) Dynamics of phragmoplastin in living cells during cell plate formation and uncoupling of cell elongation from the plane of cell division. Plant Cell. 9(2):157-69.

Week of November 22, 1999

Chao-Jun Li, Roger Heim, Pin Lu, Yongmei Pu, Roger Y. Tsien and Donald C. Chang. (1999) Dynamic redistribution of calmodulin in HeLa cells during cell division as revealed by a GFP-calmodulin fusion protein technique. Journal of Cell Science. 112: 1567-1577.

Week of November 8, 1999

Charles B. Shuster and David R. Burgess. (1999) Parameters that Specify the Timing of Cytokinesis . Journal of Cell Biology. 146 (5): 981-992.

Week of October 25, 1999

Wendy F. Rothwell, Claire X. Zhang, Christina Zelano, Tao-shih Hsieh and William Sullivans. (1999) The Drosophila centrosomal protein Nuf is required for recruiting Dah, a membrane associated protein, to furrows in the early embryo . Journal of Cell Science. 112: 2885-2893.

Week of October 11, 1999

Alexander Stock, Michel Steinmetz, Paul Janmey, Ueli Aebi, Gunther Gerisch, Richard Kammerer, Igor Weber, and Jan Faix (1999) Domain Analysis of cortexillin I: actin bundling, PIP2-binding and the rescue of cytokinesis. EMBO Journal. Vol 18, No. 19:5274-5284.

Week of September 27, 1999

Sergei N. Prokopenko, Anthony Brumby, Louise O'Keefe, Leanne Prior, Yuchun He, Robert Saint, and Hugo J. Bellen. A putative exchange factor for Rho1 GTPase is required for initiation of cytokinesis in Drosophila. Genes and Development. 13:2301-2314.

Week of September 13, 1999

A. Cynthia, Mary Morphew Sparks, and Dannel McCollum, (1999) Sid2p, a Spindle Pole Body Kinase that Regulates the Onset of Cytokinesis. Journal of Cell Biology. 146: 777-790.

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