Population
HeLa cells (glycerol-extracted at room temperature)
Comparison
Incubation in heavy meromyosin from rabbit… vs Omission of heavy meromyosin, replacement by egg…
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Suggests actomyosin-like cytokinesis mechanism; leaves open in vivo validation across cell types.
Microfilaments of the contractile ring in HeLa cells are closely related to muscle actin, suggesting an actomyosin-like mechanism for cell cleavage.
Thomas E. Schroeder (1973) studied this question.
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