contractile ring

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contractile ring

A ring of actin filaments around the equator of a cell formed at the end of MITOSIS. Tightening of this ring lead to the separation of the two daughter cells.

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The diameter of the actin ring, i.e., the contractile ring, became smaller than those at anaphase.

THE PROCESS OF FIRST POLAR BODY FORMATION IN EGGS OF THE ANDROGENETIC CLAM CORBICULA FLUMINEA

Cytokinesis is achieved by an actin-myosin contractile ring that physically divides the cell into two daughter cells following separation of the sister chromatids during anaphase.

Aurora A Kinase amplifies a midzone phosphorylation gradient to promote high-fidelity cytokinesis

At the telophase of the second mitotic division (MT2), the width of the midbody that formed between each blastomere decreased with the contraction of the contractile ring as in the first cleavage.

MEIOTIC AND EARLY ZYGOTIC DEVELOPMENT IN CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA OBSERVED THROUGH CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY

This concentration of centralspindlin, in turn, recruits the Rho GEF Ect2, which mediates the activation of Rho required for the functioning of the contractile ring that drives furrowing during cytokinesis (Yuce et al., 2005; Green et al., 2012).

Central spindle self-organization and cytokinesis in artificially activated sea urchin eggs

The cleavages take place by constriction of the contractile ring (CR) formed in the cortex at the division site.

Calyculin-a induces cleavage in a random plane in unfertilized sea urchin eggs

Cleavage furrow: timing of emergence of contractile ring actin filaments and establishment of the contractile ring by filament bundling in sea urchin eggs.

Polar body formation in Spisula oocytes: function of the peripheral aster

These stages are thought to be critical for docking of the meiotic spindle with the cell cortex, and for meiotic apparatus-cortex signaling that mediates the positioning and generation of the contractile ring. These processes occur by as yet unknown mechanisms.

Cytoskeletal events preceding polar body formation in activated Spisula eggs

[Ca.sup.2+] is a key regulator of cytokinesis, the process by which the contractile ring constricts the cell to form the cleavage furrow.

[Ca.sup.2+] effects on myosin-II-mediated contraction of pseudo-contractile rings and transport of vesicles in extracts of clam oocytes

We refer to this self-organized network of actin filaments as a pseudo-contractile ring because of the following two fundamental properties that it shares with the contractile ring: (i) it exhibits myosin-II-mediated, anti-parallel sliding of actin filaments (3, 4), and (ii) it assembles during the M-phase of the cell cycle.

GTPase Rho is involved in myosin-II-mediated contraction of pseudo-contractile rings and transport of vesicles in extracts of clam oocytes