Open AccessA Pom1 Gradient Is Made to Measure
Author(s) -
Meredith Calvert
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of molecular cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.825
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1674-2788
pISSN - 1759-4685
DOI - 10.1093/jmcb/mjp020
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , yeast , intracellular , cell , microbiology and biotechnology , cell division , biology , computational biology , cell size , chemistry , biochemistry , computer science , data mining
In order for cell division to proceed, fission yeast must first attain critical cell size. The mechanism by which size is detected had not been identified until two recent studies showed that cells utilize an intracellular gradient of Pom1p kinase to measure cell length.
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