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The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe has long been recog-nized as one of the most useful model systems for investigating cell cycle regulation.1 S. pombe has been favored as an experimental organism largely because of the power of yeast genetics and molecular biology and because fission yeast has been repeatedly proven to serve as a useful paradigm for uncovering the key elements of cell control. Indeed, a large number of the critical components of cell cycle control, such as cdc2 kinase, Weel kinase and cdc25 phosphatase, were first discovered in fission yeast. Although major technical advances have recently made it possible to carry out significant functional in vivo analyses of cell cycle control proteins in more complex organisms such as the fruit fly and mice, fission yeast continues to serve as one of leading experimental systems for elucidating central features of eukaryotic cell cycle control.2
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Shiozaki, K., Russell, P. (1997). Expression, Purification and Analyses of Cell-Cycle Regulatory Proteins in S. pombe . In: Giga-Hama, Y., Kumagai, H. (eds) Foreign Gene Expression in Fission Yeast: Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Biotechnology Intelligence Unit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03472-9_9
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