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. 2010 Feb 9;20(3):R101-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.01.001.

Cell cycle: the art of multi-tasking

Sandra López-Avilés  1 , Frank Uhlmann
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Cell cycle: the art of multi-tasking

Sandra López-Avilés et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Separase is the protease that cleaves the cohesive link between sister chromatids to trigger chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis. This enzyme is known to orchestrate additional mitotic events and we now gain new insight into how it promotes cytokinesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

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