Kinesin proteins eat away at microtubules, shortening them and pulling chromosomes to opposite spindle poles during cell division in most organisms. However, fission yeast lacks these proteins, and ...
In fission yeast, a non-kinesin protein known as Dis1 attaches to the kinetochore-microtubule interface and promotes microtubule catastrophe, resulting in the sudden switch from microtubule elongation ...