| Literature DB >> 20059995 |
Ji Liu1, Lisa L Maduzia, Masaki Shirayama, Craig C Mello.
Abstract
The nonmuscle myosin II NMY-2 is required for cytokinesis as well as for the establishment of zygote asymmetry during embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Here we describe two conditional nmy-2 alleles that rapidly and reversibly inactivate the protein. We show that NMY-2 has late-cell-cycle roles in maintaining embryonic asymmetries and is also required for a surprisingly late step in the maintenance of the cytokinesis furrow. Finally, during a signaling-induced asymmetric cell division, NMY-2 is required for SRC-dependent phosphotyrosine signaling and acts in parallel with WNT-signaling to specify endoderm. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20059995 PMCID: PMC2903000 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.12.041
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dev Biol ISSN: 0012-1606 Impact factor: 3.582