Actomyosin cortex: Inherently oscillatory?

Curr Biol

School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Cell Biology, Centre for Engineering Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK.

Published: July 2024

A new analysis of cytokinetic furrow ingression in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote at high spatiotemporal resolution demonstrates that, rather than being a process of steady, spatially uniform constriction, furrow ingression is modulated by complex contractile oscillations that move around the furrow, possibly in the form of propagating waves.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.072DOI Listing

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