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Processes Controlling the Contractile Ring During Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast Including the Role of ESCRT Proteins

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Cytokinesis, as the last stage of the cell division cycle, is a tightly controlled process amongst all eukaryotes, and defective division can lead to severe cellular consequences, and is implicated in serious human diseases and conditions such as cancer. Both mammalian cells and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe use binary fission to divide into two equal sized daughter cells. Similar to mammalian cells, in S. pombe such cytokinetic division is driven by the assembly of an actin-myosin contractile ring (ACR) at the cell equator between the two cell tips. The ACR is composed of a complex network of membrane scaffold proteins, actin filaments, myosin motors, and other cytokinesis regulators. Contraction of the ACR leads to the formation of a cleavage furrow which is severed by the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) proteins leading to the final cell separation during the last stage of cytokinesis, abscission. This review describes recent findings defining the three phases to establish cytokinesis in S. pombe: ACR assembly, ACR constriction, and its coordination with septation. Collectively, we provide an overview of current understanding of the mechanisms regulating the ACR-mediated cytokinesis in S. pombe with a potential role of ESCRT proteins in this process.
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1. The Use of Fission Yeast to Study Eukaryotic Cytokinesis

Both mammalian cells and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe use binary fission to divide medially. Fission yeast cells are encased in a cell-wall structure giving them their rod shape following growth by tip extension and divide equatorially. Therefore, the species is considered an excellent model organism for studying eukaryotic cytokinesis, where similar cellular processes occur.
Research using S. pombe has allowed the identification of many important conserved cell cycle regulators. As the mechanisms of assembly and constriction of the actin-myosin contractile ring (ACR) in S. pombe are very similar to those seen in mammalian cells, our current understanding of eukaryotic cytokinesis stems extensively from studies in fission yeast (Pollard and Wu, 2010).
During the 1970s, the work of Leland Hartwell and colleagues with the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae led to the discovery of a large number cell division cycle (CDC) mutants, and for the first-time eukaryotic genes required for cell division were characterized (Hartwell et al., 1970; Hartwell et al., 1973). Study of the cell division cycle continued in the distally related fission yeast S. pombe by Paul Nurse and colleagues, with the discovery of equivalent cdc gene mutants (Nurse, 1975; Nurse et al., 1976).
Later in the 1990s, two landmark reviews discussed aspects of the S. pombe cell cycle including the timing of events leading to cytokinesis, cell division, and mechanisms for determining the medial or equatorial division plane. At that time the cdc16 and cdc2 genes were thought to act as a molecular switch regulating S. pombe mitosis and cytokinesis (Chang and Nurse, 1993), and it was proposed that the division plane was determined by the position of the nucleus (Chang and Nurse, 1996). Subsequent research offered a deeper understanding of the S. pombe cell cycle regulation, including aspects of cytokinesis (reviewed in Nurse, 2020), and cell polarity (reviewed in Chang et al., 2019).
Establishment of cytokinesis is mediated by a cytokinetic ACR that leads to the final separation of the two daughter cells. In this short review, we describe S. pombe cytokinesis starting from the medial positioning of the division plane and the assembly of the cytokinetic ACR (Section 2), to the forces that generate tension and lead to constriction of the ACR and the role of ESCRT proteins in cytokinesis, to the final separation of the two daughter cells during septation (Section 3).

2. Actin-myosin Contractile Ring (ACR) Assembly in Fission Yeast

2.1. Positioning of the Cell Division Plane

In S. pombe cellular growth occurs throughout a longer interphase period with this ceasing during the shorter mitosis and cytokinesis periods, after a certain cell length is achieved. During the cell cycle, “middle” and “end or tip” locations are specified by two spatial axes. The “middle” location is defined by the nucleus which is positioned at the cell centre by a microtubule-pushing mechanism where a force produced by the cytoplasmic microtubule bundles and is applied to the nucleus (Tran et al., 2001; Piel and Tran, 2009). Furthermore, this force is able to efficiently re-centre nuclei of cells exposed to nuclear displacement (Daga et al., 2005; Daga et al., 2006). The dynamic interplay between the nucleus and the microtubule cytoskeleton is illustrated and reviewed by Gallardo et al. (2019). Alternatively, the “end or tip” location is defined by formin-mediated actin assembly mechanism at cell tips (Martin et al., 2005), and polarity factors including the DYRK kinase Pom1p secreted in a gradient manner at cell poles. Additionally, Pom1p controls mitotic entry by phosphorylating the ACR scaffold protein Cdr2p at the cell “middle” through phosphorylating its membrane-binding C-terminal region (Gerganova et al., 2019).
Much evidence shows that the Anillin-like protein Mid1p localizes to the “middle” location and initiates ACR assembly (Paoletti and Chang, 2000; Almonacid et al., 2011; Saha and Pollard, 2012, Rezig et al., 2021). Mid1p has two membrane binding domains, the pleckstrin homology domain (PH) and the cryptic domain (C2) (Chatterjee et al., 2019). However, it only binds the plasma membrane after it is activated and resealed from the nucleus (Bähler et al., 1998; Almonacid et al., 2011). The roles of Mid1p in positioning the ACR are now well understood in S. pombe, and are reviewed in Rezig et al. (2022), with the mechanism of medial positioning of the ACR schematically described in Figure 1.
In contrast, comprehension of the organization of proteins that assemble the complex cytokinetic machinery during cytokinesis is still relatively rudimentary. In S. pombe, cytokinesis proteins are recruited to the cell centre pre-determining the future division plane, these organized as cortical spots, named “nodes” (Akamatsu et al., 2014; Laplante et al., 2016). The next Section will discuss the nature of these nodes including their constituent proteins and spatiotemporal organization.

2.2. Molecular Organization of Nodes within the ACR

The current model for the ACR assembly includes two types of interphase nodes: type-1 “stationary” nodes containing Cdr1p, Cdr2p, Wee1p, Mid1p; and type-2 “anchoring” nodes containing Blt1p, Gef2p, Cdc15p, Rng2p, and Cdc12p (Zhu et al., 2013; Akamatsu et al., 2014). The “anchoring” nodes form the units that anchor the ends of myosin-II tails to the plasma membrane, with myosin-II heads extending into the cytoplasm. These nodes then merge into a ring-like structure, named the actin-myosin contractile ring (ACR) and, as its name implies, it is composed of actin filaments and myosin-II motors in addition to various classes of cytokinesis proteins (Malla et al., 2021).
Live cell imaging, high-speed fluorescence photo-activation localization microscopy (FPALM), and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) have shown to be excellent methods to dissect ACR nodes. Recent findings revealed that nodes are discrete units with stoichiometric ratios and specific distribution of constituent proteins (Laplante et al., 2016, Akamatsu et al., 2017, McDonald et al., 2017; Malla et al., 2021). Furthermore, the localization of the ACR constituents is thought to be arranged in several layers relative to the plasma membrane, starting with plasma membrane-binding proteins and the tail of myosin-II, to intermediate cytokinesis proteins, and farthest from the plasma membrane lays myosin motor domains, F-actin and its cross-linkers (McDonald et al., 2017). Advances in laser scanning microscopy, such as Airy-scanning using very low laser power to acquire high-quality images, increased the resolution and signal-to-noise ratio and enabled the detection and measurement of even feint individual cytokinesis nodes (Sayyad and Pollard, 2022). Coalescence of nodes leads to the ACR assembly through the search capture pull and release (SCPR) mechanism, whereby Cdc12p nucleates actin filaments as Myo2p pulls actin filaments, thus producing the force required to pull the individual nodes into the ACR (Vavylonis et al., 2008; Laplante et al., 2016; Zimmermann et al., 2017). Such assembly of the ACR from node precursors is schematically described in Figure 2.

2.3. Anchorage of the ACR to the Plasma Membrane

After ACR assembly, Myo2p tails and Cdc15p localize to the plasma membrane, with the Myo2p heads, Myp2p and the bundle of actin filaments localizing 60 nm away from the plasma membrane (Swulius et al., 2018). It is suggested that this organization connects the bundle of actin filaments to the plasma membrane (Bellingham-Johnstun et al., 2021). Cdc15p next recruits Cdc12p to the ACR, and this interaction is thought to be essential for the ACR organization and stability (Snider et al., 2020).
The phospho-status of Cdc15p influences its ability to bind the plasma membrane, with phosphorylation of Cdc15p by Pom1p inhibiting its binding to the plasma membrane at cell tips (Bhattacharjee et al., 2020). Additionally, the p21-activated protein kinase (Pak1p), another polarity kinase, was found to regulate the function of Mid1p and Cdc15p (Magliozzi et al., 2020). Cdc15p has three regulatory components: an N-terminal Fre/Cip4 homology Bin/Maphiphysin/Rvs domain (F-BAR), a medial intrinsically disordered region (IDR), and a C-terminal Src homology 3 domain (SH3). While the F-BAR domain enables protein oligomerization and concentration on the plasma membrane to scaffold protein assemblies resulting in membrane deformation (Snider et al., 2021), it was recently found that phosphorylation of Cdc15p induces the separation of the Cdc15p IDR region resulting in an inhibition of Cdc15p phase separation, and the formation of condensate on the plasma membrane (Bhattacharjee et al., 2023).
Moshtohry and colleagues recently used laser ablation, a technique based on photodamage in which cellular structures could be degraded using focused pulsed laser (Khodjakov et al., 1997), to investigate the mechanical role of Cdc15p during S. pombe cytokinesis, they found that the ACR recoils after being severed, however, this recoil profile was greater and slower in the ablated ACR of Cdc15-depleted cells, suggesting that loss of Cdc15p decreases stiffness of the ACR material (Moshtohry et al., 2022). Furthermore, another F-BAR protein, Imp2p, was found to contribute to the stiffness of the ACR (Bellingham-Johnstun et al., 2021).

3. ACR Constriction is Coordinated with Septation in Fission Yeast

Unlike in mammalian cells where cytokinesis only implies the formation of a medial ACR, cytokinesis in S. pombe additionally requires the formation of a cell wall-like structure named the septum, physically separating the two daughter cells at the division site. After ACR assembly and constriction, the septation initiation network (SIN) mediates the synapses of the amphid defective (SAD) kinase, Cdr2p, dispersal from the cell cortex into the cytoplasm, and septation is coordinated with the ACR constriction (Rincon et al., 2017). The septum is composed of three layers: a middle primary septum layer that is later digested by the end of cytokinesis, and two flanking secondary septa layers which remain intact to form the new cell walls of separated daughter cells (reviewed by Pérez et al., 2018 and Hercyk et al., 2019).
S. pombe septation occurs in three stages. First, deposition of the septum cell-wall structure material is carried out through membrane trafficking events where secretory vesicles deliver the septum beta-glucan synthase 1, Bgs1p (Onwubiko et al., 2021). Localization of cell-wall building enzymes including Bgs1p depends on both Cdc42p and Cdc15p (Wei et al., 2016; Campbell et al., 2022). Second, during anaphase B the ACR constricts at a slow rate as the septum ingression is initiated; however, after the delivery of the alpha-glucan synthase 1, Ags1p, and Bgs4p, the rate of constriction and septum ingression is increased (Cortés et al., 2018). Third, after the ACR constricts, exocytosis leads to the delivery of glucanases and digestion of the primary septum leaving the two daughter cells each with a new cell wall (secondary septa) (Pérez et al., 2015).
Septation is coupled to ACR constriction, and the interaction between Bgs1p and the ACR is mediated by the paxillin Pxl1p (Cortés et al., 2015). Furthermore, Pxl1p accumulation during septum formation is thought to be mediated by an interaction with both the N-terminal F-BAR (Snider et al., 2020) and C-terminal SH3 domains of Cdc15p (Bhattacharjee et al., 2020). The mechanism of engagement of Pxl1p to both distal domains of Cdc15p is not well understood. However, a recent study demonstrated this interaction and found that Pxl1p binds to the Cdc15p F-BAR cytosolic domain (Snider et al., 2022).
Proctor and colleagues (2012) found that beta-glucan synthesis in important for the ACR to overcome the high turgor pressure during cytokinesis, suggesting that other pathways might coordinate with ACR constriction. Recent research used a fission yeast mutant cps1-191, defective in 1,3-beta-glucan-synthase septum synthesis, that arrests with a non-constricting ACR, to test if high turgor pressure restricted ACR constriction in such mutants (Chew et al., 2020). This showed that a decreased turgor pressure inhibits the ACR constriction in cps1-191 mutants, suggesting that the extracellular glycan network regulates the ACR constriction and septum ingression, and that subsequent remodeling of the extracellular components relieves this restriction and facilitates the ACR constriction.
At the last stage of cytokinesis, abscission, completed primary septum digestion splits the two daughter cells apart, this is thought to be driven by turgor pressure (Atilgan et al., 2015). The primary septum is hydrolyzed by the digestive endo-(1,3)-beta-glucanase, Eng1p (Martin-Cuadrado et al., 2003), and the endo-(1,3)-alpha-glucanase, Agn1p (Dekker et al., 2004). Membrane trafficking events during abscission are tightly regulated to ensure complete abscission, where septins complexes are involved in the delivery of the digestive glucanases (Zheng et al., 2018), interestingly, a recently characterized different Anillin homologue, Mid2p is required for this process (Tasto et al., 2003). It will be interesting to discover how Mid2p regulate the later stages of cytokinesis. Septum synthesis, coordination with ACR constriction and the abscission mechanism are schematically described in Figure 3.

4. Insights into the Role of ESCRT Machinery During Cytokinesis

4.1. The Role of ESCRTs in Mammalian Cytokinesis

The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) genes were first characterized in S. cerevisiae as vacuolar protein sorting (VPS) genes, as class E Vps mutants were found to have impaired sorting of vacuolar proteins (Raymond et al., 1990; Raymond et al., 1992; Bryant and Stevens, 1998). An additional ESCRT component, the AAA-type ATPase VPS4, was revealed to regulate membrane association of the VPS protein complex to control endosome function (Babst et al., 1998). Subsequently, the ESCRT eukaryotic membrane remodeling machinery was shown to play major roles in other important cellular processes including release of intralumenal vesicles (ILVs) during the multivesicular bodies (MVBs) formation (Liu et al., 2015), centrosome dynamics (Morita et al., 2010), and separation of daughter cells during cytokinesis (Morita et al., 2007). In this section, we will discuss dynamics of the ESCRT/VPS4 membrane remodeling during cytokinesis, as their role in other remodeling processes has been reviewed elsewhere (Bhutta et al., 2014a; Scourfield and Martin-Serrano, 2017; Stoten and Carlton, 2018).
The ESCRT machinery is composed of four complexes: ESCRT-0, ESCRT-I, ESCRT-II, and ESCRT-III, with the latter complex required for all ESCRT activities preforming the core function of membrane remodeling. ESCRT-III being the most evolutionary ancient ESCRT member, has a unique ability to catalyze fission of membrane necks from their luminal side. The ESCRT-III machinery is composed of 12 proteins named charged multivesicular body proteins (CHMPs) and plays a vital role during mammalian cell cytokinesis.
Numerous studies have dissected the behavior of ESCRTs during cytokinesis (reviewed by Nähse et al., 2017; McCullough and Sundquist, 2020). Briefly, during mammalian cell cytokinesis, ingression of the cleavage furrow creates a thin intracellular bridge connecting the two daughter cells named the midbody. ESCRT-I protein tumor-susceptibility gene 101 (TSG101) and ESCRT-I adaptor apoptosis-linked gene 2-interacting protein X (ALIX) interact with the centrosomal protein of 55 kDa (CEP55) at the midbody (Morita et al., 2007). The ESCRT-III protein CHMP4B is then recruited to the site of constriction on both sites of the midbody center, polymerization of ESCRT-III into a spiral on the side of the microtubule bridge occurs, and VPS4 next catalyzes rearrangement of the spiral (Elia et al., 2011; Elia et al., 2012). VPS4 is the only nucleotide hydrolase in the ESCRT machinery (Babst et al., 1998), and it functions by pulling ESCRT-III subunits out of the filament to unfold their polypeptide chain through a central pore; this is achieved via cycles of binding ATP, hydrolysis, and ADP release (Yang et al., 2015; Monroe et al., 2017). In earlier studies VPS4 was detected at the site of division only during the last stages of abscission (Elia et al., 2011). However, more recently, VPS4 was also detected during the early stages of abscission and found to be required for ESCRT-III turnover at the midbody (Mierzwa et al., 2017). The role of the ESCRTs during mammalian cell cytokinesis is schematically described in Figure 4.

4.2. The Role of ESCRTs in Fission Yeast Cytokinesis

It is established that ESCRT-III recruits VPS4 to remodel filaments driving the midbody constriction in mammalian cells (Elia et al, 2012; Mierzwa et al., 2017; Pfitzner et al., 2020; Pfitzner et al., 2021). However, the exact mechanism of how ESCRT-III and VPS4 catalyze membrane fission during abscission in other model organisms including S. pombe remains unclear.
Sequencing the S. pombe genome revealed that the ESCRT proteins are conserved in this yeast species (Takegawa et al., 1995; Takegawa et al., 2003), and it was later confirmed that Class E Vps proteins regulate vesicle-mediated protein sorting (Iwaki et al., 2007). ESCRTs are also involved in the spindle pole body (SPB) dynamics, however, and there are many other unexplored functions of ESCRTs in S. pombe, including their role in sealing newly formed nuclear envelopes and during cytokinesis. ESCRTs demonstrate strong genetic interactions with SPB proteins and transmembrane nucleoporins, suggesting a role of ESCRTs in nuclear remodeling (Frost et al., 2012). An interesting study explored the ESCRT-mediated nuclear envelope closure in mammalian and S. pombe cells and showed that ESCRT-III mutants and vps4Δ cells display a defective SPB amplification and severe defects in nuclear integrity and morphology (Gu et al., 2017).
Emerging evidence suggest an important role of the ESCRT machinery during S. pombe cytokinesis. Septation is defective in individual S. pombe ESCRT mutants and vps4Δ cells remain attached during septation and fail to separate (Bhutta et al., 2014b). Furthermore, a genetic screen investigated genetic interactions between each of the S. pombe ESCRT genes and the anillin-encoding mid1 gene. Amongst all ESCRTs, only the vps4 gene showed genetic interactions as a mid1Δ vps4Δ double mutant demonstrated synthetic lethality (Rezig et al., 2021). Furthermore, the Vps4p protein has been suggested to interact directly or indirectly with the C-terminal domain of anillin/Mid1p, probably through the lipid-binding PH domain. But how is this coordination carried out if Mid1p leaves the ACR before the onset of abscission, when Vps4p is activated?
Until recently it was not understood how Mid1p leaves the site of division upon the ACR constriction. However, part of this has been explained when it was recently found that phosphorylation of Mid1p by Sid2p leads to Mid1p’s cortical dissociation from the plasma membrane attached ACR (Willet et al., 2019). It is possible that a direct or indirect coordination between the ATPase Vps4p and the SIN kinase Sid2p might regulate Mid1p’s disassociation, leading to its nuclear re-localization during the later stages of cytokinesis. Investigating the co-localization of Mdi1p, Vps4p and Sid2p in S. pombe could be informative in this regard. Additionally, it is known from time lapse imaging experiments that S. pombe cells lacking Sid2p phospho-sites cause Mid1p to maintain cortical attachment even at the onset of the ACR constriction (Willet et al., 2019). Therefore, similarly, tracking the localization of Mid1p in vps4Δ mutant cells throughout the cell cycle could lead to a clearer understanding of the ESCRT machinery dynamics in regulating S. pombe cytokinesis.

5. Concluding Remarks

Studying the function of gene products and their localization through the cell cycle in S. pombe has been a powerful way to understand eukaryotic cell division, especially with advanced live cell imaging, fluorescent macromolecules, and the integration of different research fields including cell molecular biology, cell mechanics and mathematical modelling. This enabled the generation of a model of S. pombe cytokinesis with a potential role of ESCRT proteins as described in the last section of this review. In summary, a ring first forms at the equator of the cell, and while the new cell-wall material is deposited through membrane trafficking, the ring constricts through a complex network of forces balanced by coordination between ring constriction and septum synthesis. Digestive enzymes then cut the remaining septum material connecting the two daughter cells leading to their final separation. During mammalian cytokinesis, ESCRTs and VPS4 localize to the abscission site implying their important role in this process, however similar localization experiments are necessary to confirm if this is the case during S. pombe abscission. This review addresses the dynamic nature of S. pombe cytokinesis and presents a visualized picture of current understanding of the proteins and processes that control this important event. It is anticipated that these mechanisms will be conserved across all eukaryotes and so will be informative about human cells and disease conditions, where they are defective.

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Figure 1. Medial Positioning of the ACR in Fission Yeast. (A) Pom1p gradient at the cell tips restricts the division site to the cell centre. Mitotic entry is controlled by Pom1p phosphorylation of Cdr2p, preventing Cdr2p from binding the plasma membrane and the subsequent formation of cortical nodes. Upon mitotic entry, both active Mid1p and Cdr2p scaffold the formation of medial cortical nodes. (B) Upon microtubule–cortex contact, polymerization at the microtubule plus end generates a pushing force (large arrowhead) that displaces the nucleus in the opposite direction (nuclear movement demonstrated by red arrows). The antiparallel direction of the microtubule bundle ensures that, over time, the nucleus oscillates back and forth toward the centre. References within the text.
Figure 1. Medial Positioning of the ACR in Fission Yeast. (A) Pom1p gradient at the cell tips restricts the division site to the cell centre. Mitotic entry is controlled by Pom1p phosphorylation of Cdr2p, preventing Cdr2p from binding the plasma membrane and the subsequent formation of cortical nodes. Upon mitotic entry, both active Mid1p and Cdr2p scaffold the formation of medial cortical nodes. (B) Upon microtubule–cortex contact, polymerization at the microtubule plus end generates a pushing force (large arrowhead) that displaces the nucleus in the opposite direction (nuclear movement demonstrated by red arrows). The antiparallel direction of the microtubule bundle ensures that, over time, the nucleus oscillates back and forth toward the centre. References within the text.
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Figure 2. Assembly of the ACR from Node Precursors. (A) During interphase, type-1 and type-2 nodes orchestrated by the scaffold proteins Mid1p, Cdr2p, and Blt1p bind the plasma membrane and scaffold other cytokinesis proteins. (B) Coalescence of interphase nodes leads to their maturation into cytokinesis nodes. Maturation of cytokinesis nodes leads to the recruitment of Cdc12p and nucleation of actin filaments. Interactions between Myo2p and actin promotes the ACR formation. References within the text.
Figure 2. Assembly of the ACR from Node Precursors. (A) During interphase, type-1 and type-2 nodes orchestrated by the scaffold proteins Mid1p, Cdr2p, and Blt1p bind the plasma membrane and scaffold other cytokinesis proteins. (B) Coalescence of interphase nodes leads to their maturation into cytokinesis nodes. Maturation of cytokinesis nodes leads to the recruitment of Cdc12p and nucleation of actin filaments. Interactions between Myo2p and actin promotes the ACR formation. References within the text.
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Figure 3. Septation is Coordinated with the ACR Constriction. (A) Deposition of the septum material by membrane trafficking through secretory vesicles carrying the septum glucan synthases. (B) Cross section of the deposited septum and constricting ring with internal turgor pressure (black), opposed by the inward forces of the ACR constriction (blue) and septation (purple) (Derived from Proctor et al., 2012). (C) After establishment of the ACR degradation via the ESCRT machinery, glucanases digest the primary septum, the secondary septa represent the cell wall material at the new cell tips. References within the text.
Figure 3. Septation is Coordinated with the ACR Constriction. (A) Deposition of the septum material by membrane trafficking through secretory vesicles carrying the septum glucan synthases. (B) Cross section of the deposited septum and constricting ring with internal turgor pressure (black), opposed by the inward forces of the ACR constriction (blue) and septation (purple) (Derived from Proctor et al., 2012). (C) After establishment of the ACR degradation via the ESCRT machinery, glucanases digest the primary septum, the secondary septa represent the cell wall material at the new cell tips. References within the text.
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Figure 4. The role of ESCRTs during mammalian cytokinesis. During mammalian cytokinesis a cleavage furrow forms medially between the two dividing cells, while the ACR constricts to create the midbody. (A) sequential recruitment (steps 1-3) of the ESCRT-I subunits/factors leads to the recruitment of ESCRT-III polymers forming a spiral at the constricted midbody (B) The ATPase VPS4 is then recruited to the midbody (step 4) where it disassembles the ESCRT-III polymers, this ensures ESCRT-III subunits are recycled at the division site with such fission reaction leading to the separation of daughter cells. ACR: actin-myosin contractile ring. MT: microtubules. References within the text.
Figure 4. The role of ESCRTs during mammalian cytokinesis. During mammalian cytokinesis a cleavage furrow forms medially between the two dividing cells, while the ACR constricts to create the midbody. (A) sequential recruitment (steps 1-3) of the ESCRT-I subunits/factors leads to the recruitment of ESCRT-III polymers forming a spiral at the constricted midbody (B) The ATPase VPS4 is then recruited to the midbody (step 4) where it disassembles the ESCRT-III polymers, this ensures ESCRT-III subunits are recycled at the division site with such fission reaction leading to the separation of daughter cells. ACR: actin-myosin contractile ring. MT: microtubules. References within the text.
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