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| Title: | Ca²+ signaling during embryonic cytokinesis in animal systems |
| Authors: | Webb, Sarah E.
Miller, Andrew L. |
| Keywords: | Ca²+
Cytokinesis
Cleavage furrow
Positioning
Propagation
Deepening
Apposition
Actomyosin |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Citation: | New Comprehensive Biochemistry, v. 41, ch. 17, p. 445-470. |
| Abstract: | In this Chapter, we provide a review of the literature that describes the role of Ca²+ signaling during embryonic cytokinesis in animal systems. We begin with a historic overview (starting with the earliest reports published in the latter part of the 19th Century) that gives some of the first descriptions linking Ca²+ with cell division in embryos. This introductory overview also outlines the different techniques that were used and developed over time, from the pre-Ca²+ imaging days through to the sophisticated approaches that are available today for directly visualizing Ca²+ signals in living cells. In the remainder of the Chapter, we describe the more recent advances in cytokinetic Ca²+ signaling research, starting where the introduction finished, in the 1990’s. Reports of the various Ca²+ signals visualized during cytokinesis in fish, amphibian, echinoderm and insect embryos using both fluorescent and luminescent Ca²+ probes are described, as well the investigations carried out to determine both the requirement of elevated Ca²+ during cytokinesis and the source of the Ca²+ involved in this process. The current hypotheses regarding the possible roles and targets of the different cytokinetic Ca²+ signals observed are also briefly discussed. |
| Rights: | 'New comprehensive biochemistry © copyright 2007 Elsevier. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sciencedirect.com/ |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/3556 |
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