anaphase

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Classon MK, Dick FA, Wei W, Rape M, et al. (2007) Retinoblastoma protein and anaphase-promoting complex physically interact and functionally cooperate during cell-cycle exit.

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  1. noun The stage of mitosis and meiosis in which the chromosomes move to opposite ends of the nuclear spindle.

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  • Cytokinesis - The final stage in the process of cell division is known as cytokinesis, which usually begins during late anaphase or early telophase (before mitosis ends) as the nuclear envelope and nucleoli are reforming and the chromosomes are de-condensing (see Figure 1 (f)).
  • The destruction box of the cyclin Clb2 binds the anaphase-promoting complex / cyclosome subunit Cdc23. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The anaphase-promoting complex / cyclosome (APC / C) is a multisubunit E3 required for cyclin ubiquitination. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Mitotic regulation of the anaphase-promoting complex. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Orderly progression through mitosis is regulated by the anaphase-promoting complex / cyclosome (APC / C), a large multiprotein E3 ubiquitin ligase that targets key mitotic regulators for destruction by the proteasome. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. New Latin anaphasis, from Greek ἀνά, back, again, + φάσις, appearance, phase.
 

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