Contraction and polymerization cooperate to assemble and close actomyosin rings around Xenopus oocyte wounds
Xenopus oocytes assemble an array of F-actin and myosin 2 around plasma membrane wounds. We analyzed this process in living oocytes using confocal time-lapse (four-dimensional) microscopy. Closure of wounds requires assembly and contraction of a classic “contractile ring” composed of F-actin and myo...
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The Rockefeller University Press
2001
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2196444/ |