Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

During mitosis, the chromatin undergoes a dynamic reorganization important for faithful chromosome segregation. Here the authors show that the DEAD-box RNA helicase eIF4A1/2 regulates the ...

It also touches on the implications of mitosis in healing and the potential consequences of its disruption, such as cancer or damage from radiation. Keywords mitosis, cell division, chromosomes, DNA, ...

In addition, threonine to serine substitution of a conserved phosphorylation site in the substrate INCENP prevents its relocalization at anaphase I ... then transition to a third division strategy, ...

Interestingly, 91% of the mRNAs that undergo gene-specific regulation in mitosis are translationally repressed, rather than activated. One of the most pronounced translationally-repressed genes is ...