IV-2 The Cell Cycle

2 The Plant Cell Cycle An Overview

This chapter reviews the basic features of plant cell proliferation. Although plant cell division seems to be largely similar to animals and fungi, there are a number of peculiarities that are perhaps related to their lifestyle and development. Initial comparisons of animal, fungal, and plant genomes suggest that the central cell division and growth machinery are largely similar but that some k...

Cell cycle and apoptosis: A review

Cancer is characterized by abnormally excessive cell proliferation. Cell proliferation, the process by which a cell grows and divides to produce two daughter cells. Each of these daughter cells divides to produce two new cells, steps that are called cell cycle. Meanwhile, apoptosis is a highly regulated process of cell death, which is involved not only in the development of shape and morphogene...

Cell cycle: Driving the centrosome cycle

Cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) control major transitions as cells pass through the cell cycle. It has recently been shown that centrosome duplication in vertebrates requires Cdk2 activity and can be driven solely by Cdk2-cyclin E complexes.

The Biological Cell Cycle

The Cell Cycle

SYNOPSIS. I review recent advances in our knowledge of the eucaryotic cell cycle: the set of processes by which cells grow and divide. Genetic approaches to the cell cycle of somatic cells identified a pathway of events where the initiation of each event was dependent on the successful completion of the preceding event, as well as a single key gene, cdc2, that is required both at the beginning ...