Checkpoints and restriction points in bacteria and eukaryotic cells
Cooper, Stephen
2006-10
Citation
Cooper, Stephen (2006). "Checkpoints and restriction points in bacteria and eukaryotic cells." BioEssays 28(10): 1035-1039. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55831>
Abstract
Bacterial checkpoints, analogous to those proposed to exist in eukaryotic cells, offer insights into the definition of a checkpoint. Examination of bacterial “checkpoint” or arrest phenomena illustrate problems with a too-casual application of the checkpoint idea to eukaryotic phenomena. The question raised here is whether there are cellular processes that “check” whether a cellular process is completed. It is possible that many eukaryotic “checkpoints” may not have “checking” functions. Some of the ubiquitous checkpoint phenomena widely described may be merely the result of the inherent incompleteness of earlier events preventing the initiation of subsequent events. BioEssays 28: 1035–1039, 2006. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Publisher
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0265-9247 1521-1878
Other DOIs
PMID
16998839
Types
Article
URI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=16998839&dopt=citationMetadata
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