Measuring proteolysis in mitosis.

Methods Mol Biol

Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Published: November 2009

The targeted destruction of key regulators helps to drive the cell cycle. Here we describe a quantitative assay to measure destruction of different regulators in mitotic cells. This assay uses GFP-tagged substrates and time-lapse fluorescence microscopy of single cells to pinpoint the timing of destruction of different substrates at different stages in mitosis.

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