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Guides to the final frontier of the cytoskeleton: septins in filamentous fungi.

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Gladfelter, AS
Published in: Curr Opin Microbiol
December 2010

Recent investigations have established core principles by which septins can form non-polar filaments in vitro. How cells then assemble, regulate and use septin polymers is still only beginning to be understood. It is clear that there is plasticity and variability in septin organization across diverse species and cell types. Work in the filamentous fungi has been invaluable in discovering this variation in form and function. In particular filamentous fungi display many forms of higher order septin structures and study of septins in these systems has led to insights into septin assembly, dynamics and regulation. Importantly in many cases work in these alternative systems reveal differences to how septins may be organized, functioning or regulated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here I review the novel aspects of septin biology found in filamentous fungi and raise many open questions about these enigmatic polymers that should guide future study.

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Curr Opin Microbiol

DOI

EISSN

1879-0364

Publication Date

December 2010

Volume

13

Issue

6

Start / End Page

720 / 726

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Septins
  • Protein Multimerization
  • Microbiology
  • Fungi
  • Fungal Proteins
  • Cytoskeleton
  • 3107 Microbiology
  • 1108 Medical Microbiology
  • 0605 Microbiology
 

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Gladfelter, A. S. (2010). Guides to the final frontier of the cytoskeleton: septins in filamentous fungi. Curr Opin Microbiol, 13(6), 720–726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2010.09.012
Gladfelter, Amy S. “Guides to the final frontier of the cytoskeleton: septins in filamentous fungi.Curr Opin Microbiol 13, no. 6 (December 2010): 720–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2010.09.012.
Gladfelter AS. Guides to the final frontier of the cytoskeleton: septins in filamentous fungi. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2010 Dec;13(6):720–6.
Gladfelter, Amy S. “Guides to the final frontier of the cytoskeleton: septins in filamentous fungi.Curr Opin Microbiol, vol. 13, no. 6, Dec. 2010, pp. 720–26. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.mib.2010.09.012.
Gladfelter AS. Guides to the final frontier of the cytoskeleton: septins in filamentous fungi. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2010 Dec;13(6):720–726.
Journal cover image

Published In

Curr Opin Microbiol

DOI

EISSN

1879-0364

Publication Date

December 2010

Volume

13

Issue

6

Start / End Page

720 / 726

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Septins
  • Protein Multimerization
  • Microbiology
  • Fungi
  • Fungal Proteins
  • Cytoskeleton
  • 3107 Microbiology
  • 1108 Medical Microbiology
  • 0605 Microbiology