G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (Dec 2020)

Reconstructed evolutionary history of the yeast septins Cdc11 and Shs1

  • Julie Takagi,
  • Christina Cho,
  • Angela Duvalyan,
  • Yao Yan,
  • Megan Halloran,
  • Victor Hanson-Smith,
  • Jeremy Thorner,
  • Gregory C Finnigan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaa006
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1

Abstract

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AbstractSeptins are GTP-binding proteins conserved across metazoans. They can polymerize into extended filaments and, hence, are considered a component of the cytoskeleton. The number of individual septins varies across the tree of life—yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiaeCaenorhabditis elegans